Ray Ozzie -- the creator of Lotus Notes who had a successful five-year run at Microsoft -- stands ready to leave his next mark on the industry, this time with his nearly year-old startup Talko (formerly Cocomo), a venture funded by $4 million from investors and shrouded in secrecy.
IBM has introduced LotusLive, which it describes as a portfolio of integrated internet-hosted services for social networking and collaboration in workplaces.
IBM has teamed up with Ubuntu and Virtual Bridges to offer a virtualised version of Lotus Notes. The companies claim users will be able to experience significant savings compared to a Windows-based machine.
Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server software is, by many accounts, a huge hit, providing that seemingly irresistible formula of solid technology for free or at a low price.
More than 300 companies representing 2.8 million employees began migrating to Microsoft's collaboration and content management system in the last six months of 2007, Microsoft announced on Monday.
IBM patched four vulnerabilities in its Notes and Domino email software to plug holes that could be used to access information or infect systems with malicious code.
Patchy network connections led rural co-operative purchasing company Combined Rural Traders to opt for a custom-built Domino/Notes-based customer relationship management system.
IBM is gearing up for possibly the biggest Notes/Domino release ever and promises that the not too user-friendly Lotus Notes will be a lot more fun in the future.
What started in 2003 as an effort to build a collaboration platform constructed of reusable components met its official demise on Monday at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference.
It has been less than a week since Apple introduced its iPhone, but corporate email users hoping to land the device as a client for real-time remote access better think again.
Microsoft Exchange’s ability to work smoothly with Microsoft CRM and other Microsoft applications is behind the Ministry of Transport’s decision to move away from Lotus Notes, says Murray Wills, a consultant advising the ministry.
The Ministry of Transport is considering two final steps towards the full outsourcing of all its IT.
IBM/Lotus hopes to finally attain what years of earlier efforts have failed to yield: widespread trust among Notes/Domino users that the company remains committed to the platform and its decade-long battle with Microsoft for collaboration-software supremacy.
IBM has released Workplace Designer 2.5, a development tool it hopes will help users bridge the gap between its legacy Lotus Notes/Domino architecture and the Workplace platform IBM has declared is the future when it comes to collaboration applications.
Three years after its last major upgrade, Lotus has released Notes and Domino 6 and Auckland company Convergence has already ported its software to run on the new platform.