"We are maintaining a pace in seats-installed that assures we will surpass our annual goal for 1998," said Lotus President and CEO Jeff Papows. "Our momentum is based on sustained marketplace recognition of Lotus` leadership, from basic messaging to Web application servers. Industry experts and, more importantly, our customers confirm that Domino/Notes is a full-scale development platform for running critical business processes such as e-Business, knowledge management, and document management."
Lotus cited strong Domino/Notes growth in the key enterprise market sectors of Banking, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals and Publishing as evidence of Domino/Notes continued market leadership.
"Companies within these sectors are not just defining the future of messaging, but are realizing extraordinary payback based on enterprise and extra-enterprise collaboration, among teams of employees, and between the enterprise and its customers and suppliers," said Marjorie Tenzer, Lotus Vice President of Product Marketing. "They are deploying advanced groupware solutions built on Notes and Domino that play a mission-critical and strategic role in their e-business plans. Selecting the right messaging platform is absolutely essential for companies needing enterprise e-business solutions now and in the future.
"Despite Microsoft`s assertion that they are gaining share, we continue to maintain our momentum and overwhelming leadership in the global messaging and groupware markets," said Tenzer. "Clearly, our competitive lead in the maketplace is expanding, even without factoring in the upcoming release of Notes/Domino R5 with significant new sametime, chat and knowledge management functionality.
"Lotus has a clear strategy of providing the most comprehensive and robust groupware and collaboration frameworks on the market today," Tenzer concluded, "and our Notes/Domino strategy for providing value-added extensions to those infrastructures, combined with the resources of our parent company and the outstanding efforts of our 18,000 Lotus Business Partners who supply end-user applications for the Notes/Domino platform, will ensure our continued leadership."
About Lotus Development Corporation
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 new class of applications that allow 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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