What is Lotus Notes
What is Lotus Notes?
Lotus Notes and Domino represent one of the greatest success stories in the history of business software. Since the introduction of Notes 1.0 in late 1989, many millions of users have come to rely upon Lotus Notes and Domino as essential collaboration and information-sharing tools critical to the success of their teams. And today, Lotus Notes and Domino remain among the most important and influential products in the industry -- many corporations find that they cannot be as efficient and productive without them."
(developerworks.com)
February 2006 marked the 10th anniversary of the introduction of Lotus Notes at the University of Windsor. We started with release 4 and less than a 100 users pilot deployment in the School of Business, and then the Faculty of Science. Today, we have over 2,500 Lotus Notes accounts, with over 1,800 faculty and staff members using Lotus Notes and Domino Web Access as their primary tool for e-mail, schedule management, Web publishing, and collaboration.
The campus wide use of Notes as an official electronic communication platform, gave the University the edge to effectively deal with the digital mayhem of the 90’s. Thanks to Notes’ unique robustness in the security department, the University was much better positioned to withstand the impact of e-mail viruses that plagued the Internet at the end of the last decade.
Our robust groupware infrastructure also proved invaluable when a decision was made to pursue a deployment of Blackberry devices to our mobile users. Within weeks of the final approval, people were walking around with their Blackberries that we were easily able to tightly integrate with their desktop’s e-mail, schedule and personal information management environments.
In October 2009, IBM-Lotus Software released Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1. By upgrading to this new release, Notes users can take advantage of improvements in many areas, and many other new features designed to increase productivity and usability. In addition, Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1 includes a redesigned Domino Web Access interface, which has been rebranded back to iNotes (with release 8.5), and now offers a "lite" version for those with slower/older computers or a slow Internet connection, such as dial-up, and an Ultra-Lite version for mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPod Touch.
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