Just a short while ago, we faced an expensive update of our IBM Lotus Notes legacy e-mail and business application platform.
Lotus position IBM'S LOTUS DEVELOPMENT subsidiary cried foul when we wrote that Microsoft was gaining momentum in the e-mail and groupware market (Aug. 10, 1998).
AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.
Soon afterward, he accepted a request to build a communications system for the International Rescue Committee that would allow it to share child refugee data with other agencies using IBM's Lotus Notes.
Carl Tyler, a veteran of Lotus and IBM who now runs Instant Technologies, an enterprise IM software group, thinks one of the biggest etiquette breaches by Gen Y recruits involves newbies typing paragraph upon paragraph of chat.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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Examples of assembly language software you may be familiar with are IBM PC DOS and the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.
Some of the earliest information started flowing to Bauer in 1995, Bill Clinton was in his first term as president, when Lotus Development Corporation (Remember Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Notes) was purchased by IBM.
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For example, the maker of spreadsheets, Lotus Development Corp. was acquired by IBM (IBM).
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The programs, an addition to the company's "Lotus" group of applications, also represent one of IBM's most ambitious forays yet into enterprise software-as-a-service, the browser-based model of applications pioneered by companies like Salesforce.com.
She was an executive at Lotus Development, which struggled against Microsoft before being acquired by IBM in 1995.
When the acquisition closes in the first quarter, Rational will be the fifth division within IBM software, along with Websphere, DB2 database, Tivoli management products and Lotus collaborative software.
For example, at Lotusphere IBM showed an integration with SugarCRM that allowed an end user to create a meeting in Lotus Sametime or to store a document in Lotus Quickr.
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