Programming Announcement February 3, 2004

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5.1 family of products maximizes collaboration while lowering cost

Overview • Lotus (Sametime ) At a Glance The first maintenance release of the • Lotus Web Conferencing IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 Helping companies maintain a (Sametime) family of products includes: competitive advantage, this latest • release: •  Lotus Team Workplace Lotus Domino: IBM Lotus (QuickPlace ) Domino Messaging Server, IBM • Gives users a single access Lotus Domino Enterprise Server, • Lotus Domino Document Manager point to their most valuable IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server (Domino.Doc ) messaging, collaborative, and personal information • Lotus Domino Express: IBM Lotus • Lotus Workflow management (PIM) through the Domino Collaboration Express, • new Lotus Workplace for IBM Lotus Domino Utility Express Lotus Workplace Web Content  Management Notes Welcome page • Lotus Notes • Integrates Lotus Instant This means you can upgrade your Messaging functionality to • Lotus Domino Web Access programs to Release 6.5.1 without provide presence awareness extensive testing to ensure that all • Lotus Domino Access for and enable users to initiate products work together. That  Outlook chats with colleagues — without translates to faster time to value, launching a separate • lower costs, and increased Lotus Domino WebMail application productivity. •  Lotus Domino Designer • Maximizes responsiveness • Lotus Enterprise Integrator for Key Prerequisites through a follow-up function and Domino visual indicators to show users Refer to the Hardware requirements when they′ve forwarded or • Lotus Connectors and requirements sections. replied to e-mail messages With Release 6.5.1, Lotus continues • Helps reduce total cost of ′ to build upon Domino s established Planned availability dates ownership through minimal themes of industry-leading flexibility training requirements, end-user and choice. Your total cost of • Electronic software delivery: productivity enhancements, and ownership is optimized and the Available now built-in management function return on your investment is • increased. Release 6.5.1 of IBM • Media and documentation: Expands platform support by Lotus Domino is designed, tested, March 5, 2004 adding Linux support and supported across a common • Advances server management release of the extended product and system administration, family: helping reduce total cost of ownership • Enhances application development support with Lotus Domino Toolkit for WebSphere Studio

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative.

IBM Europe, Middle East, Africa IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ZP04-0133 • Free busy-time lookup. Description • Ability to have multiple clients accessing the same NSF Store. What is new in this release • Notes decryption. — For WebSphere Portal new portal UI for all the Lotus • Mail, calendar, and scheduling access from the Web. products. 1 Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 will not be Lotus Domino available at the same time as the core 6.5.1 release. The code will be made available via Web download in • Updated the Service release of the JVM on Linux, from March 2004, and will ship with the core product in the 1.3.1 SR2 to 1.3.1 SR6. Domino Maintenance Release.

• Removed the SMP restriction on Enterprise Lotus Domino Connector for SAP V1.7.1 Linux (RHEL) 2.1. • Support for Linux (United Linux 1.0 and Red Hat Lotus Notes Advanced Server 2.1). • Ability to delete calendar entries. • Support for SAP 4.7e. • Option to print detailed description of calendar entries. For each of the 6.5.1 products (Domino family and extended family) there will be support for: • Enhanced usability of Today page for the Workplace for Notes. • Four common platforms: iSeries V5R2, Windows 2000/2003, AIX 5.2, and Solaris 9. Lotus Domino Web Access • Two common browsers: Microsoft Explorer • Support for Mozilla 1.4.1 for Linux. 5.5/6 and Mozilla 1.4.1. • Ability to send encrypted mail and local archive when • All Group 1 languages: English, German, French, offline. Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. • Support for Linux Red Hat 9, Red Hat AS 2.1 (uniprocessor only), and United Linux 1.0 SP2 . Note: If an individual product supports additional • platforms, browsers, or languages, those are not being Enhanced end-user performance. removed. Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook1 For additional information, refer to the Lotus • Notes/Domino 6.5.1 Release Notes (readme.nsf, Improved scalability and performance of data readme.pdf) on the product CD-ROM. Updated synchronization between Outlook Client and Domino. Release Notes will be posted online in the Lotus Data is now interchanged using the native Documentation Library at: Notes/Domino replication technology (NRPC), thus enabling advanced features such as streaming http://www.lotus.com/ldd/doc replication, clustering and failover load balancing, and network compression to be used. An up-to-date list of specific issues resolved in this release can be found in the Notes/Domino Fix List • Upgraded Installation Package and Client Upgrade. at: The install program now utilizes the standard Windows MSI installer. Installation will now launch http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf a setup program similar to the one used for the Lotus Notes client. It will prompt for the minimum amount of information needed from the user. In the final steps, it will set up the needed location documents, Statement of direction connection documents, and notes.ini settings that are needed for Outlook to access the server. For the last 20 years, Lotus software from IBM has been at the forefront of the computing revolution. In many • Outlook Plug-in. This component was initially ways, it has helped shape the world we all work in today. introduced as part of the 6.0.2 release, providing Out Going forward, Lotus software will continue to deliver one of Office and change password capabilities. It of the most comprehensive portfolios of messaging and continues to be the primary focus for configuring a collaboration solutions available, designed to help user′s mailfile preferences in Domino from Outlook. maximize collaboration and human productivity. Lotus It was extended in 6.5.1 to provide access to Domino solutions offer high performance, secure access, and preferences, particularly around group scheduling, robust tools that help all user communities to manage such as autoprocessing, setting free and busy hours, their messaging and collaboration needs, regardless of and mail and calendar delegation. company size and industry focus. • Ability to sync calendar data to the Domino Server. All statements regarding IBM′s plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice. • Improved interoperability with Notes, iNotes , and Outlook using Domino.

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Product Availability description Language date

IBM Lotus Ent Int English U.S. March 5, 2004 V6.5.1 Notes/Domino V6.5.1 Multilingual (French, April 2, 2004 Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian) Notes/Domino V6.5.1 English U.S. March 5, 2004 Notes/Domino V6.5.1 Multilingual (English May 19, 2004 International, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polish), Multilingual (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Nynorsk, Dutch, Finnish)

Trademarks

Domino, Lotus Enterprise Integrator, QuickPlace, Lotus Workflow, iNotes, and iSeries are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the or other countries or both. Lotus Notes, Lotus, Domino Designer, Sametime, Domino.Doc, Notes, WebSphere, SP2, and AIX are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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