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MAINSOFT PREVIEWS LOTUS NOTES INTEGRATION WITH SHAREPOINT 2010
Reports 420 Percent Growth in Demand for Software Coexistence

Lotusphere, Orlando Fla. – January 19th, 2010 - Mainsoft^® Corporation, a leading provider of Microsoft^® SharePoint^®-Java^™ EE interoperability software, today announced a preview of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes^® version 2.5. The software brings the SharePoint 2010-based professional network into the Lotus Notes email client, with support for SharePoint User Profiles and My Sites, making it easy for Lotus Notes users to search for and connect with people they work with. Mainsoft is also previewing SharePoint integration with Microsoft Outlook^®. Available the first half of 2010, the production release will deliver the same document collaboration experience for Lotus Notes and Outlook users, minimizing user training requirements for Lotus Notes companies migrating users to Outlook and Exchange^®.

• American Water (NYSE:AWK), the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, plans to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to more than half of its 7,000 employees working in 32 states and Ontario, Canada in order to streamline and enforce document approvals; facilitate document sharing; and reduce document storage costs. Explained Steve Brescia, an enterprise architect for the company, "We're in the process of upgrading to Lotus Notes 8.5.1 and piloting Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator in order to bring SharePoint into users' daily work environment. The combination will allow us to promote SharePoint adoption and our unified communications and collaboration strategy while preserving our IT investments in Notes, Sametime, and SharePoint."

• DAI, an international development company, is a long-time Lotus Notes customer upgrading to Lotus Notes 8.5.1. Two years ago, the company deployed Office SharePoint Server for its corporate document sharing and collaboration portal. However, according to Steve Mullen, Director of Information Technology, SharePoint has not been as universally adopted as hoped. "We're investing in Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator to make it as easy as possible for our users to upload email attachments on SharePoint, as well as share document links as part of the collaboration process." Mullen expects a notable increase in SharePoint use in the next twelve months.

• In Q4, 2009, Infoware Solutions, a Stockholm-based Mainsoft software reseller and Lotus-focused IBM Premier Business Partner, sold Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator to two of its largest customers in manufacturing and public transportation. "Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator is the glue that brings our customers' Lotus and SharePoint into a unified collaboration platform," said Ulf Stider, marketing manager for Infoware. "Lotus Notes users can work far more productively with access to all their collaboration tools from a single place, rather than having to access each tool kit separately." Long term, Stider expects to see more Lotus customers adopt social software, a more "human-centric" way to communicate, as part of their collaboration solution.

• Tennessee-based National Banker's Trust, a financial services company specializing in factoring receivables for the trucking industry, is rebuilding its Intranet and client-facing portal sites using Lotus Notes 8.5 and Lotus Domino. In addition, the IT team is using Windows SharePoint Services to collaborate and share project-related documents. According to Ashleigh Carter, information technology business analyst for the company. "We purchased Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator to enable the IT team to build complete project records, by storing emails along with project documents; set up and manage our SharePoint-based team calendar from Lotus Notes, and make SharePoint easy-to-use, all around." Once the IT team demonstrates the productivity impacts of integrating their messaging and collaboration tools into a single platform, the company plans to deploy Lotus Notes 8.5 and SharePoint company-wide.

• Sofor Oy, an IBM Premier Business Partner and Mainsoft software reseller, is working with a large Finnish media company and long-time Lotus Notes and Domino customer to upgrade to Lotus Notes 8.5.1 and integrate their Lotus communications software with Office SharePoint Server 2007. According to Jukka–Pekka Sorvisto, CEO of Sofor, "The customer already has a communications infrastructure in place that's well integrated with their business processes. With Mainsoft, there's no need to migrate to a single vendor in order to transform their email into a master communications, collaboration, and social software console."

About SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes v 2.5

Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator extends the Lotus Notes platform to include SharePoint, integrating Lotus Notes email and Lotus Sametime^® instant messaging with SharePoint document sharing, calendar, and team collaboration features. The software is built using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform plug-in architecture and well-documented SharePoint Web Services interface. Available at the end of March, the beta release will support many of SharePoint 2010's social networking features, enabling users to:

• Learn more about people in their enterprise network. Users can access people's full SharePoint profile, including their contact details, photo, areas of expertise, past projects, and colleague relationships by hovering over their names in Lotus Notes emails, calendar events, and the Sametime sidebar panel.

• Search for people. Notes users can search SharePoint user profiles to quickly find people they need within the organization.

• Quickly access SharePoint My Sites, containing colleagues' shared information, directly from the SharePoint sidebar panel.

The production release will support additional social features, including tag clouds, document notes boards, and the ability to add colleagues in order to follow their social activities and edits.

Lotus customers can now choose either a Lotus-SharePoint coexistence strategy, or a migration to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. "Both strategies have their merits," said Cohen. "Whereas Lotus–SharePoint coexistence enables Lotus customers to extend existing investments in Lotus technologies while embracing SharePoint, a Notes to Outlook migration delivers an integrated back-end and front-end platform from a single vendor." Regardless of which email customers choose, Mainsoft will deliver the same two-way, full-featured access to SharePoint document libraries from a sidebar application and ensure that the social networking experiences are comparable. Lotus customers that want to participate in a beta trial can contact sales@mainsoft.com.

About Mainsoft Corporation

Founded in 1993, Mainsoft Corporation delivers integrated user experiences across technology platforms. Currently, more than 200 enterprise customers and ISVs use Mainsoft software and solutions to integrate Microsoft technologies, specifically SharePoint and .NET applications, into Java-based middleware such as IBM Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, WebSphere^® Portal Server, WebSphere Application Server, Rational^® Jazz^™, and Apache Tomcat. For more information about SharePoint integration with IBM platforms, or to learn about .NET-Java interoperability, visit www.mainsoft.com.

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