AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.
Go back through the last few months of your Outlook calendar, Lotus Notes, or handwritten diary.
Lotus Notes, which came out in 1989, was due to get a boost from a new version, R5.
The march toward standardization has so far been unstoppable--Lotus Notes, to take one example, has been largely supplanted by Internet browsers.
Just a short while ago, we faced an expensive update of our IBM Lotus Notes legacy e-mail and business application platform.
Many firms are working to use Linux behind software, such as Lotus Notes, that has traditionally run on Microsoft's Windows operating system.
American groupware programs such as Lotus Notes are eventually adapted for Japanese use, but long after they have appeared in the English-speaking world.
Schrader said an estimated 20 million Exchange seats and 30 million Lotus Notes mail systems are vulnerable to the virus or its variants.
He himself wrote much of Lotus Notes, an early collaborative program, and came to Microsoft when it bought his latest start-up, Groove Networks, in 2005.
One of the first to benefit is expected to be Lotus Sametime, an instant-messaging add-on for firms that already license Lotus Notes and its related networking software.
In a note to investors, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore bet Apple will announce support for both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes corporate communications systems for the iPhone.
Company representatives say they're working on a Disappearing plug-in for Lotus Notes, and expect to soon release free plug-ins for other popular e-mail programs, such as Outlook Express and Eudora.
While businesses using Microsoft 's Exchange will be able to pour calendar information and e-mail directly into iPhones, companies built around Lotus Notes or Novell Groupware systems are out of luck.
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.
However, if you do hire one of the tens of thousands of small-time IT services shops that cater to small businesses, ask them about using open-source alternatives to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.
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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While RIM won't comment--despite a very public slap by Jobs Thursday (see: " The iPhone Goes Corporate")--analysts say Apple's pricey handsets still lack the kind of tight integration with applications such as Lotus Notes that RIM has mastered.
While businesses using Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Exchange will be able to pour calendar information and e-mail directly into iPhones, companies built around Lotus Notes or Novell Groupware systems are out of luck.
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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