LOTUS SHIPS INTERNOTES WEB PUBLISHER AND INTERNOTES NEWS

Products Enable Notes Customers to Publish and Manage Documents on the WWW
and to Provide Managed Access to Internet News from Notes

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 1, 1995 -- Lotus Development Corp. today announced it
has begun shipping the InterNotes Web Publisher and InterNotes News. The
InterNotes Web Publisher enables Notes users to publish Notes applications
to the Internet and eliminates the time-consuming problem associated with
managing thousands of corporate documents published on Web sites. Also
shipping is InterNotes News, a Notes server product that allows Notes
users to participate in Usenet "newsgroups" from the Notes environment.

The InterNotes Web Publisher converts Notes databases and documents into
the HTML format used for publishing on the World Wide Web (WWW), the
Internet's fastest growing application. Because of Lotus Notes'
replication and distributed storage model, organizations with multiple
authors in multiple locations can use the InterNotes Web Publisher to
automatically create and manage their corporate Web site. The InterNotes
Web Publisher creates HTML pages of Notes Views which automatically
populate and manage changes to an HTTP Web server, such as Netscape
NetSite or EMWACS.

Popular Web browsers, such as the Netscape Navigator and NCSA Mosaic, gain
access to documents stored in Notes databases. Notes and InterNotes are a
solution to automate the tedious process of maintaining and updating
hyperlinked Web documents. Because of Notes' application development
capabilities, items can be programmed to show a "New" sign, or be present
on the Web site for only a specified period of time.

"The InterNotes Web Publisher extends the core benefits of Notes to
companies looking to set up management-free Web sites to publish their
public information for easy access to millions of WWW users," said John
Landry, Lotus' chief technology officer. "InterNotes Web Publisher also
solves the management bottleneck created when documents flood the Web
'master' and when these need updating on the Web. Any document revised in
Notes is automatically updated by the InterNotes Web Publisher. Since
information is fluid and constantly changing, this is the only practical
way for companies to keep their public documents current on the Web."

MANAGED ACCESS TO USENET NEWSGROUPS

Also shipping today is InterNotes News, a Notes server application that
exchanges Usenet news articles between Notes and UNIX servers using the
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). By bringing Usenet news articles
into Notes discussion databases, users can leverage key Notes
capabilities, including full text search, threaded views of discussions,
and multiple indexed views of the articles. Because InterNotes News can be
configured for specific newsgroups, administrators can provide access to
only those newsgroups appropriate for business use. Notes users can
participate in Usenet News by posting a response from Notes or by replying
directly to the author using Internet Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
mail.

LOTUS OPENS CUSTOMER SUPPORT CENTER ON WEB SITE

Lotus also rolled out its comprehensive technical support offering on the
World Wide Web. Lotus Customer Support and Service Internet/WWW extends
Lotus' global customer support reach by offering easy access to technical
information, support programs and supplemental files. InterNotes Web
Publisher will be the vehicle for publishing Notes-generated views of
important Notes-based support data. This is accessible from Lotus' home
page at http://www.lotus.com.

PRICING, AVAILABILITY AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The InterNotes Web Publisher and InterNotes News are available for an
estimated retail price ERP of $6,589 and $2,199, respectively. InterNotes
News is available on OS/2 and Windows NT, and the InterNotes Web Publisher
is available on Windows NT. The InterNotes Web Publisher and InterNotes
News have begun shipping today in both the United States and in Europe.
Support for Japanese content will be available for the InterNotes Web
Publisher within 45 days. For more information, call Lotus in North
America at 1-800-346-1305.

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 5,500 companies and 1.57 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 Macintosh,
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. (NASDAQ:LOTS), founded in 1982, 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. The company now markets its products in
more than 80 countries worldwide and provides numerous support services,
both from its consulting services division and its award-winning 24 hour
support center.

NOTE: All prices and terms are for the U.S. only.

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