LOTUS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF LOTUS NOTES:NEWSSTAND

Enables Information Providers to Publish Over Notes and the Internet

Service to Host More than 50 Business and Industry Publications

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 31, 1995 -- Lotus Development Corp. today announced
the availability of Lotus Notes:Newsstand, a service and set of publishing
tools for delivering business and industry publications to Notes users and
the Internet.

Lotus Notes:Newsstand enables users to leverage the unique set of Notes
features that make it easy to create, distribute, manage and manipulate
compound documents, including replication for receiving up-to-date
information, customized views and integration with Notes-based
applications. More than 50 publications have signed agreements with Lotus
to use the service including American Demographics, Best's Review,
Communications Week, Compensation & Benefits Review, and Financial World
from EBSCO Publishing; Communications Today, Interactive Daily, Multimedia
Week and Defense Daily from Phillips Business Information; Industrial R&D
Alert and High-Tech Materials Alert from Technical Insights, Inc.; The
Daily Brief from Oxford Analytica; News Briefs from Information, Inc. and
PC Week Highlights from Ziff-Davis Publishing.

Lotus Notes:Newsstand allows Notes users to receive critical, up-to-date
business and industry information along with the Notes applications they
use every day. With Lotus Notes:Newsstand, users can receive business
publications in Notes-format on their desktop, and integrate them into
other Notes-based business processes, said Jim Dougherty, director,
Advanced Technologies Group at Lotus. For information providers, Lotus
Notes:Newsstand is a complete electronic publishing solution that enables
them to expand their distribution to the influential and growing business
audience of Notes users, to publish easily in Notes, and to manage and
market directly to their readership. This service and these tools are the
first steps in the process for Lotus to become a presence in the
electronic business publishing marketplace.

LEVERAGE ALL THE CAPABILITIES OF NOTES

Lotus Notes:Newsstand is being offered over the Lotus Notes Network (LNN),
Lotus' Notes-based information service for its Business Partners and
customers.

Users can preview and subscribe to publications using the Guide to
Newsstand hosted on LNN. When a company subscribes to a publication, that
publication is delivered from LNN to the company's Notes server on a
scheduled basis through Notes replication. This allows the organization to
receive the publication once through the corporate server and distribute
it, subject to agreement with the information provider, throughout their
enterprise. The user can then leverage all the capabilities of Notes
including indexing and full-text or selected-text searches.

Information delivered by Lotus Notes:Newsstand can be combined easily with
Notes-based business applications that handle critical business processes
such as sales or marketing. For example, a marketing group can search
periodicals for the latest competitive news and industry trend information
and quickly integrate that information into their business planning
applications.

FULL SET OF PUBLISHING TOOLS

Lotus Notes:Newsstand offers information providers a full set of tools for
publishing in Notes format. These include The Editorial Workbench, which
automates document preparation and converts information into Lotus Notes.
Using The Editorial Workbench, information providers can create their
information products once for Lotus Notes, and reach Windows, Macintosh,
OS/2 and UNIX desktops through the Notes-based network server. The
Editorial Workbench contains SmartMaster templates and other resources to
help information providers create, manage and distribute their products
on-line using data from existing electronic file formats. The extensive
graphics tools in Lotus Notes allow information providers to preserve the
look and feel and brand identity of their publication's paper-based
counterpart.

Lotus Notes:Newsstand takes advantage of Notes' inherent workflow
capabilities to provide a unique subscription management system that
allows information providers to manage their relationship with their
subscribers. When a customer requests a subscription and site license over
Lotus Notes:Newsstand, the request is automatically routed to the
information providers who can then approve or deny it. Once the
subscription is approved, the publication is automatically released to the
customer's site for replication. This system allows information providers
to control access to their electronic publication by granting reader
access only to authorized subscribers.

Lotus Notes:Newsstand supports publishers who are just getting into
Notes-based publishing by providing an enticing tool set and a ready-made
platform for delivery, said David Marshak, vice president, Patricia
Seybold Group. The subscription management system is the most advanced for
electronic delivery that I've seen to date.

PATH TO PUBLISHING ON THE INTERNET

Lotus Notes:Newsstand also offers information providers a path to
publishing on the Internet. Utilizing the Lotus InterNotes Web Publisher,
an information provider can translate publications developed in Lotus
Notes:Newsstand into Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), the format used
for publication on the World Wide Web. This enables the information
provider to create a document once and have the option of publishing over
Notes and the Internet.

Electronic delivery of business publications is becoming a key requirement
for today's publishers. Companies want the information they need to run
their businesses accessible at their desktops, said Tim Collins, vice
president and division general manager of EBSCO Publishing. With Lotus
Notes:Newsstand, we can easily deliver our publications to the growing
community of Lotus Notes users and have the option of expanding onto the
World Wide Web.

AVAILABILITY, PRICING AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Lotus Notes:Newsstand is available now. Publication subscription fees are
set by the information provider. For subscribers, Lotus Notes:Newsstand
requires enrollment in the Lotus Notes Network. Replication costs for
publications are based on the LNN rate of $15.95 an hour. New LNN users
can receive an enrollment kit by calling 1-800-357-0051 or 617-693-3969 in
the United States and Canada. The server that connects to LNN must be
running Lotus Notes 3.3 or higher. For Lotus Notes:Newsstand, other
workstations and servers should be running Lotus Notes 3.1 or higher.

Information providers receive the Lotus Notes:Newsstand tools when they
contract with the service. Lotus Notes:Newsstand information providers
require a Lotus Notes server running Notes 3.1 or higher on OS/2, Windows
or UNIX. Other workstation and servers should also be running Lotus Notes
3.1 or higher. For more information call 1-800-697-8263.

Lotus Notes is the leading client-server platform for developing and
deploying strategic groupware applications that help organizations
communicate, collaborate and coordinate strategic business processes
within and beyond their organizational boundaries to achieve improved
business results. More than 6,000 companies and more than 2 million people
use Notes to improve key business processes such as customer service,
sales and account management, and product development. Lotus Notes
supports all major operating systems including IBM OS/2 Warp, Apple Mac
OS, Microsoft Windows and Windows NT, and UNIX platforms including IBM
AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and SCO OpenServer. Notes is also available as a
NetWare loadable module for the Novell environment.

Lotus Development Corp., a subsidiary of IBM Corp., offers high quality
software products and support services that reflect the company's unique
understanding of the new ways in which individuals and businesses must
work together to achieve success. Lotus' innovative approach is evident in
a new class of applications that allows information to be accessed and
communicated in ways never before possible, both within and beyond
organizational boundaries. The company also provides numerous support
services, both from its consulting division and its award-winning 24-hour
support center.

All prices and terms are for the USA only.
 
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