CBT Systems, Lotus Education expand agreement to co-develop courseware for Domino 4.5; new curriculum delivers training for interactive Internet/intranet applications

Business Wire, May 15, 1997

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1997--CBT Systems and Lotus Education today announced that they have expanded their long-standing partnership with an agreement to co-develop interactive education software for Lotus Notes Domino 4.5. The announcement was made at CBT Systems Perspectives '97 user conference here, the company's largest annual customer gathering to date.

CBT Systems, which produced with Lotus Education the successful Notes Education Learning Series Library for Releases 3 and 4, plans to deliver an initial 16 hours of courseware covering Domino 4.5 end-user and Internet applications topics. The courses are being developed with Lotus Education as part of the authorized curriculum supporting professional certification.

"In 1993 CBT Systems and Lotus Education pioneered a concept that has revolutionized the way people learn information technology," said Jim Krzywicki, vice president of Lotus Worldwide Support and Education. "Our goal was to allow users access to the highest quality education, where and when they needed it. Perhaps the best measure of our success has been the overwhelming acceptance of this approach by our customers and the industry."

"Our agreement to expand our co-development of Domino 4.5 courseware reflects the commitment of CBT Systems and Lotus Worldwide Support and Education to meet the mission-critical training and support needs of businesses and organizations worldwide," said James J. Buckley, CBT Systems president and CEO. "Domino is rapidly becoming crucial in the development of groupware and email applications for the Internet and private intranets. Our co-development efforts with Lotus will provide the training tools to help organizations quickly take full advantage of the power of Domino."

CBT Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: CBTSY), a subsidiary of CBT Group PLC, is a leading provider of interactive education software designed to meet the information technology training needs of businesses and organizations worldwide. The company develops, publishes and markets a broad library of more than 380 software titles, covering a comprehensive range of client-server, Internet, and corporate intranet technologies. CBT Systems' products are used by more than 1,300 of the world's leading corporations to train employees to develop and apply mission-critical technologies in the workplace.

The company works with leading software companies, including Cisco, Informix, Lotus, Marimba, Microsoft, Netscape, Novell, Oracle, Powersoft, and the IBM-Netscape-Sun Microsystems Java consortium to develop and market vendor-specific training.

For information on CBT Systems products, call 800/387-0932, fax 415/614-5901, or send an email to salesinfo@cbtsys.com . CBT Systems is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.cbtsys.com . -0-

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