Just a short while ago, we faced an expensive update of our IBM Lotus Notes legacy e-mail and business application platform.

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AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.

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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.

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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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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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