Software maximizes collaboration and user productivity.

Press Release Summary:



Lotus Notes® and Domino(TM) v6.5 includes Lotus Workplace for Notes® Welcome Page, which gives users single access point to messaging, collaborative, and personal information. Instant Messaging functionality provides presence awareness and enables users to initiate chats without launching separate application. Follow-up function and visual indicators show users when they've forwarded or replied to e-mail messages.




Original Press Release:



IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 Family of Products, Including IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator for Domino, Maximizes Collaboration While Lowering Cost



At a glance
Helping companies maintain a competitive advantage, this latest release:

o Gives users a single access point to their most valuable messaging, collaborative, and personal information management (PIM) through the new Lotus Workplace for Notes® Welcome Page

o Integrates Lotus Instant Messaging functionality to provide presence awareness and enable users to initiate chats with colleagues - without launching a separate application

o Maximizes responsiveness through a follow-up function and visual indicators to show users when they've forwarded or replied to e-mail messages

o Helps reduce total cost of ownership through minimal training requirements, end-user productivity enhancements, and built-in management function

o Expands platform support by adding Linux support

o Advances server management and system administration, helping reduce total cost of ownership

o Enhances application development support with Lotus Domino Toolkit for WebSphere® Studio

For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview
With Release 6.5 of the IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino(TM) family of products, including IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator(TM) for Domino (LEI), Lotus® continues to deliver proven world-class messaging and collaboration, within a rich workplace experience. Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 bring together all elements necessary to maximize collaboration and human interaction. This helps reduce total cost of ownership, while delivering best-of-breed reliability, productivity, reusability, flexibility, and market-leading security.

Key prerequisites
Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability dates
September 30, 2003: Electronic software delivery
November 7, 2003: Media and documentation

Description
The IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 family of products focuses on the theme of maximizing collaboration and user productivity, while lowering total cost of ownership. As they have since their inception, Lotus Notes and Domino continue to offer high performance with reliability, reusability, security, and flexibility, for companies of all sizes and across all industries. With each release update, Lotus continues to meet your needs to help you maintain a competitive advantage.

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