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To: Boplicity who wrote (3115)	5/5/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Technologyguy	Respond to of 5843

If anybody is listening for real news today, rather than just getting caught up in this massive margin call: RealNetworks and Lotus Announce Integration of RealSystem G2 With Lotus Notes And Domino PR Newswire - May 05, 1999 11:15 Public Beta of Domino Media Connection Services for RealSystem G2 Now Available SAN FRANCISCO, RealNetworks Conference & Exhibition '99, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the recognized leader in streaming media delivery for the Internet and Intranets and Lotus Development Corporation, the market leader in messaging and collaborative software, today announced beta availability of RealSystem(TM) G2 for the Lotus Notes & Lotus Domino 4.6 client and server collaboration platform. Lotus Development Corp. and RealNetworks have collaborated to create Domino Media Connection Services for RealSystem G2, extending the rich communication capabilities of Notes and Domino by making it easy to view, create, and stream industry leading RealAudio(R) and RealVideo(R) over corporate intranets and the Internet. The combination of RealSystem G2 with Lotus Domino provides customers and developers with seamless content management, security, and media mirroring capabilities. The public beta of Domino Media Connection Services for RealSystem G2 is now available from the Lotus Web site at www.lotus.com/mediaconnect and the RealNetworks Web site at real.com. "Streaming media is a natural extension to the rich communication abilities of Notes and Domino," said Jeanette Horan, VP of Product Development, Lotus Development Corp. "Domino Media Connections Services for RealSystem G2 will significantly enhance our customers' applications and documents with industry-leading, high-quality RealAudio and RealVideo." "We're pleased that Lotus, the leader in messaging and collaboration software, has chosen to integrate RealSystem G2 technology into Notes and Domino," said Len Jordan, senior vice president, Media Systems, RealNetworks, Inc. "Now, millions of Notes users can experience the power of rich media communications by simply adding audio and video to their documents and Web pages for streaming over corporate intranets and the Internet." "MasterCard is a global company which requires a lot of communications with our employees, member banks and customers," said Sam Alkhalaf, Sr. VP of Technical and Strategic Architecture, MasterCard. "The partnership of Lotus and RealNetworks is very exciting for MasterCard as we will now be able stream rich-media communications to a much broader set of employees as well as gaining a common distribution and security architecture." Domino Media Connection Services for RealSystem G2 includes: * The integration of the RealPlayer(R) G2 with the Lotus Notes client for embedded playback of media in any Notes document or Web page. * A wizard to make it easy for end users to insert media into any Notes document, e-mail or Web page. * The inclusion of the RealProducer(TM) G2 with Lotus Notes, enabling users to create and encode streaming media. * The integration of the RealServer G2 Workgroup Edition with the Lotus Domino server for storage and streaming of RealAudio and RealVideo from the Domino object store, leveraging Domino's content management, security and replication services. For corporate customers, Domino Media Connection Services are ideal for applications that include corporate communications, training and information updates over both the Internet and intranet. Application developers can rapidly build media-rich applications with Domino Designer and LotusScript via access to a rich set of APIs for the RealPlayer G2. Server and network administrators will benefit from network friendly bandwidth allocation, enabling playback from modem speeds to LAN rates and managed by the market-leading RealSystem G2 feature, SureStream(TM). Pricing and Availability Domino Media Connection Services for RealSystem G2 will be included at no extra cost with Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino Designer, Lotus Domino Application Server and Lotus Domino Enterprise Server. DMCS is available for download as a beta version from the Lotus Web site www.lotus.com/mediaconnect and the RealNetworks Web site real.com for the Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes platforms 4.6.3 and 4.6.4. Lotus Domino R5 and Lotus Notes R5 support will be released later this summer.