LOTUS PRESS RELEASE

Contact:
Scott Cook
Lotus Software
IBM Software Group
617-693-3008
kenneth_cook@us.ibm.com

Christine Brown
Text 100 Public Relations
212-871-3952
christineb@text100.com

ORLANDO, Fla., January 28, 2003 -- Reinforcing its commitment to industry leadership and innovation, IBM Corporation today announced the winner of its 2003 Best in Lotusphere Showcase Beacon Award. This award recognizes an innovative application that exploits the latest Lotus software technology to demonstrate the problem-solving power of Lotus software.

At the Lotusphere Showcase Reception last evening, iEnterprises, Inc. won the award for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, iExtensions. Recognized for its versatile ability to store data from multiple languages on one IBM Lotus Domino 6 database, as well as its impressive ability to integrate with IBM WebSphere Translation Server, the solution allows multi-national teams to collaborate seamlessly.

Delivering on iEnterprises' commitment to offer the best in next-generation collaborative solutions, iExtensions provides users with the ultimate easy-to-use interface through supreme customization and the ability to create on-the-fly views via simple programmatic wizards. Additionally, new color-coded views in IBM Lotus Notes 6 and excellent Web fidelity offer an interface that is exceptionally simple to use. By combining the best of the new features from Lotus' product portfolio, including chat logging in IBM Lotus Sametime 3, Lotus Domino.Doc integration and handheld access via Lotus Domino Everyplace, iEnterprises produces applications that allow users to collaborate anytime and anyplace around the world.

The Lotus Beacon Awards recognize business partners who both specialize in Lotus software and have indelibly left their mark on a dynamic industry. Furthering this commitment, iEnterprises' achievement highlights its ability to provide the finest CRM solution built on Lotus software technologies.

About Lotus Software from IBM
Lotus software from IBM sets the standard for truly innovative software and services that reflect the brand' s unique representation of the new ways individuals and businesses work together to achieve success. Lotus software is further redefining the concept of conducting business through practical knowledge management, e-business and other groundbreaking ways of connecting ideas, thinkers, buyers, sellers and communities around the world via the Internet. Lotus software is marketed in more than 80 countries worldwide through direct sales and extensive Business Partner channels.