LOTUS TO SHIP NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR WITH LOTUS PRODUCTS

ANAHEIM, Calif. (November 6, 1996) -- At the Domino Web Developers Conference held here, Lotus Development Corp. today announced its joint plans with Netscape Communications Corporation for Lotus to ship Netscape Navigator 3.0 with selected Lotus products, including the Notes client family and Lotus SmartSuite. Lotus Notes 4.5, is the first Lotus product planned for shipment with Netscape's browser product.

"Today's customers want openness, interoperability and simple delivery of product," said Jeff Papows, Lotus' president. "The market response to Netscape Navigator has been phenomenal and we plan to make it simple for Netscape Navigator users to leverage the popular browser they've chosen with Lotus' innovative products for interactive and collaborative Web applications. This is another step in Lotus strategy to integrate Notes clients with a variety of browser applications and browser components."

James Barksdale, Netscape president and chief executive officer, said, "We have always had the highest level of commitment to openness because we recognize the value of open cross-platform products to customers, and we recognize that many of them will also want to use our products in conjunction with Lotus products. This announcement with Lotus is further indication that customers can count on Netscape's commitment to openness and interoperability with an increase in the range of enterprise environments where customers can easily take advantage of the capabilities of Netscape Navigator as their universal Internet client.

LOTUS DEMONSTRATES COMMITMENT TO OPENNESS AND CONNECTIVITY
Lotus has announced that users will be able to access the Lotus Domino 4.5 server's rich enterprise messaging facilities and collaborative groupware functionality from Netscape Navigator or any Web browser. Lotus' Domino 4.5 is Lotus' interactive Web application server, now in beta testing. Last week, Lotus also announced Lotus Weblicator for browsers, which brings Lotus' world-class replication technology to standard Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and provides browser users with the ability to selectively pre-fetch Web pages, categorize and annotate them, and search Web sites off- line.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of open software for linking people and information over enterprise networks and the Internet. The company offers a full line of clients, servers, development tools and commercial applications to create a complete platform for next-generation, live on-line applications. Traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "NSCP," Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.

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Lotus Development Corporation, founded in 1982, is a subsidiary of IBM Corporation. Lotus offers high quality software products and 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 class of applications that allows users to access and communicate information in ways never before possible, both within and beyond organizational boundaries. Lotus now markets its products in more than 80 countries worldwide and provides numerous professional consulting, support and education services through the Lotus Services Group.

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