Several online gaming sites were recently hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that used a new type of assault on the victims: a Network Time Protocol Amplification Attack.
Thirty-one years ago, Massachusetts-based software developers Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs created a program — an electronic spreadsheet — that would change the world. A year later, on Jan. 26, 1983, Lotus Development Corp. released Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC and grossed $53 million in sales. The following year, sales tripled to more than $150 million.
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 is planning to release on Dec. 14 a public beta of Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition that will no longer use the Lotus brand.
Big Blue wants a piece of high-flying Apple, as well as a slice of the social networking craze. As Macworld Expo gets underway in San Francisco today, IBM unveiled enterprise-class social software for the iPhone and Mac.
Google yesterday set its sights on IBM, unveiling a tool to migrate Lotus Notes users to Google Apps and releasing a whitepaper laying out how to migrate Notes applications to Google's online infrastructure.
Mainsoft yesterday added support for Notes 8.5 to its software that integrates the collaboration platform with Microsoft’s increasingly popular SharePoint Server.
Microsoft and IBM have been duking it out over email and messaging software for years with their respective Outlook/Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino products. As their product lines have evolved, however, a new fight is brewing between Lotus and Microsoft's SharePoint Server as the platform of choice for enterprise collaboration strategy.
IBM has released software that allows BlackBerry users to access more of its applications, including its Cognos business intelligence software and Lotus Connections.
Too many users fail to include email in their disaster recovery planning because of cost, claims Mirapoint as it announces a remote site replication plan for its mail, calendar and security appliances, which compete with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
A full year ahead of schedule IBM has brought Lotus Notes to the Linux desktop. A Linux client for Notes wasn’t expected until the arrival of Hannover, the next major release of the Notes platform, in 2007. But Big Blue had a surprise up its sleeve and, earlier this month, it announced the availability of a Linux version of the current Notes 7 client.
“Lotus Notes has 40,000 active customers across the world, and any idea that Notes is dead is a dead idea,” says Ken Bisconti, vice president of IBM Workplace, portal and collaboration products.
Microsoft will stay at the top of the growing corporate email market, thanks partly to its software's new wireless push capabilities, according to a new report from The Radicati Group.
New collaboration features and productivity tools are features of a major upgrade to Lotus Notes and Domino, announced last week.
A Lotus Notes-based document management system developed by Wellington software house Reliance Software has been successfully piloted at Tasmania’s Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment. It will be rolled out department-wide over the next nine months.