SUN AND LOTUS SOFTWARE

Alliance Overview

Sun and Lotus Software have been working together since 1989, providing best of breed solutions to the messaging and groupware markets. As partners we are constantly working to enhance Lotus Domino on Sun Solaris to ensure we deliver the most stable, dependable, feature-rich platform. Together, Sun and Lotus Software can lower operating costs, reduce network complexity and improve organizational productivity. Many of world's largest companies have chosen to deploy Lotus Solutions on the Solaris Operating Environment. Here are some of the key reasons why:

Support
Sun and Lotus believe support is paramount to our joint customer's satisfaction. We have implemented support programs, such as the TSANet industry consortium, to provide efficient escalation of joint customer incidents . This program provides "one-stop" access to Sun and Lotus support engineers, ensuring incidents are resolved simply and quickly.

Focused Development
Sun and Lotus Software have joint engineering teams dedicated to performance tuning, validation and quality assurance. This effort helps ensure that Domino users are able to take full advantage of the Solaris Operating Environment.

Performance Testing - NotesBench Consortium
Sun is a long time member of the NotesBench Consortium providing customers with Notes capacity and performance information that is critical to making sound business decisions.

Investment Protection
Sun and Lotus are committed to providing our customers with proven solutions that are tightly integrated, dependable, scalable and flexible enough to meet any business needs.

Dedicated Resources
Sun and Lotus provide a cross functional team of dedicated individuals who are available to assist you with critical business decisions pertaining to architecture design and system sizing.

Partners
Sun and Lotus have joined forces with select partners to ensure that end-to-end solutions for the Solaris Operating Environment are available for small/medium sized businesses up to large enterprise customers with tens of thousands of users.