United Messaging Debuts New Release of Managed Services for Lotus Notes/Domino At Lotusphere Europe 2000

Business Wire, Sept 26, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2000

New Features Allow Messaging ASP to Deliver Hosted Collaboration

Solutions to Enterprises

United Messaging, Inc., the leading enterprise messaging application service provider (ASP), today announced its upgraded Managed Services for Lotus Notes/Domino at Lotusphere Europe 2000.

This new service features a variety of new performance and functionality enhancements, including the addition of support for hosted collaborative applications. It joins United Messaging's comprehensive lineup of world-class hosted messaging services that are designed to achieve maximum availability and security, along with infinite scalability, resulting in real value for companies worldwide.

United Messaging's new Managed Services for Lotus Notes/Domino incorporate advanced technologies designed to increase the performance and security of messaging services, including support for applications databases and agent execution for added functionality and integration with existing applications.

As a Lotus Business Partner that focuses solely on hosted messaging solutions for the enterprise environment, United Messaging is uniquely positioned to help its clients fully exploit the capabilities of the Lotus Notes/Domino R5 platform. This messaging-only focus, coupled with extensive industry experience, allows United Messaging to build Lotus Notes/Domino-based messaging systems that deliver unparalleled scalability, reliability and affordability.

Like all of its hosted messaging services, United Messaging's new Managed Services for Lotus Notes/Domino allow enterprises to enjoy the advantages of a mission-critical, enterprise-class messaging system without upfront hardware and software capital expenses or the challenge of installing, hosting, maintaining and managing a comprehensive messaging system. In addition, United Messaging's ASP model allows its customers to focus business resources on core business and scarce IT resources on core technological applications.

"United Messaging continuously strives to offer our clients the most advanced and comprehensive world-class messaging solutions available, and our messaging experts work tirelessly in pursuit of this goal," said Robert F. Jones, president and CEO of United Messaging. "The new features incorporated into our Managed Services for Lotus Notes/Domino not only increase messaging performance, security and functionality, but also illustrate our commitment to keeping our clients messaging systems up-to-date and at the forefront of technology."

"Companies thinking about outsourcing their messaging and collaboration operations to an ASP will be unlikely to do so if that means taking two steps forward in terms of cost and resource savings but one step back in terms of custom applications loss," according to Mark Levitt, research director at IDC. "United Messaging is ensuring that its customers will be able to continue to reap the benefits of custom Notes/Domino applications by hosting the applications for them."

The new Managed Services for Lotus Notes/Domino will be available in the United States and Europe in the fourth quarter.

About United Messaging

United Messaging is a messaging application service provider that delivers hosted e-mail and collaboration services to medium and large-sized business enterprises worldwide. The company leverages world-class people, processes, and technologies to provide hosted Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, and Internet messaging applications. United Messaging's unique combination of hosted, professional, and support services maximizes corporate messaging performance, reliability, and security.

Headquartered in West Chester, PA with facilities across the U.S. and in Europe, United Messaging is an Internet Capital Group Partner Company (NASDAQ:ICGE) and a business partner of EMC2, Exodus, IBM, iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, Lotus, Microsoft, Motient Corporation, Network Appliance, and Sun Microsystems. Additional information may be found at www.unitedmessaging.com or call (888) 993-5088.

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