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What is the future for Lotus?

Comment This week's Lotusphere marks a big shift for IBM's Lotus collaboration software arm. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary.marks the 15th year of Lotusphere, the annual gathering of...

Tags: lotus, web 2.0, microsoft, sharing

[24 Jan 2008]

Ray Ozzie

AS Profile Ozzie, an industry visionary with a loyal following long before his days at Microsoft, was one of the developers of collaboration and email software Lotus Notes, and went on to pioneer peer-to-peer collaboration software for businesses with his...

[25 Sep 2006]

Mitch Kapor

AS Profile The creator of Lotus Notes and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Kapor makes the list for his leadership role at the Mozilla Foundation. Why? Adding might to Mozilla Mitch Kapor is a tech industry veteran who continues to set...

[25 Sep 2006]

Mitch Kapor

AS Profile Founder of Lotus Development in 1982 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1999, he was instrumental in the creation of the landmark business application Lotus 1-2-3. Mitch Kapor is the sort of tech industry veteran for whom it's hard to single...

[23 Sep 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for search technology

Comment IBM's Lotus Domino also has a fully indexed search tool, which is fine for Domino users but of little use for anyone else. As enterprises amass more and more data, the task of searching through it has become increasingly unwieldy.

Tags: outlook, domino, search, google

[26 Aug 2005]

Jonathan Steel's Blog: Is Microsoft growing up?

Comment First, hire the right people; they've always done this on the technical side, hiring all the famous industry figures they could lay their hands on - from the team that developed VMS (in the 80s) to acquiring Groove (Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie's...

Tags: coo, wal-mart, microsoft

[09 Aug 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Does DRM make sense for business?

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Does DRM make sense for business?

Comment Platforms such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes already have capabilities beyond the ken of most companies to exploit them. While digital rights management has sparked plenty of controversy in the consumer realm, Quocirca's Jon Collins sees...

Tags: digital rights management, adobe, drm, microsoft

[02 Jun 2005]

Opinion: Local government don't get open source

Opinion: Local government don't get open source

Comment When I set up a similar forum at the Office of the e-Envoy, it cost £40,000 in time, even with free Lotus Notes software and support from IBM. Despite the savings local governments could realise from using open source software, Simon Moores is...

Tags: councils, local government, open source

[11 May 2005]

PeopleSoft farce: Larry - what were you thinking?

PeopleSoft farce: Larry - what were you thinking?

Comment But then-CEO Lou Gerstner essentially bribed Lotus' board by paying a ridiculous premium for a company whose stock was taking a nosedive. IBM similarly pulled off a successful - albeit unwanted - takeover of Lotus Development in 1995.

Tags: hostile takeover, larry ellison, oracle, peoplesoft

[19 Jul 2004]

Collaboration best practices: Think big to act small

Comment Collaboration tools are not new; in the 1990s many companies seized on the collaborative benefits of Lotus Notes and deployed it throughout the organisation, but few companies realised the hoped-for benefits.

Tags: collaboration, enterprise portals

[08 Jun 2004]

Flexible working - where 'presence' is everything

Comment IBM Lotus’s Sametime product added a million more corporate users between December 2002 and June 2003, making its total corporate messaging user base more than 9 million. Imagine having just one contact address that follows you around and which...

[20 Nov 2003]

Through the fog... Will IM stand for 'isolated messaging'?

Through the fog... Will IM stand for 'isolated messaging'?

Comment Integrated IM systems will be far better here - such as IBM Lotus with Domino Instant Messaging (SameTime), the latest version of Microsoft SharePoint or Polycom’s Office product. How do you implement IM properly?

[24 Oct 2003]

Where the growth of IM will take your business

Where the growth of IM will take your business

Comment The progress seen by the leading enterprise IM players, AOL, FaceTime, IMlogic, IBM Lotus, and Yahoo! Although targeted enterprise IM solutions exist, such as those from IBM Lotus and Reuters, many users are still using the public IM networks.

[23 Oct 2003]

“You there?” IM users remember - the firewalls have ears

Comment According to Mark Kenyon, regional director at IBM Lotus, IBM has not found the need to send staff out on extensive training sessions on how to use IM or appropriate use. How can companies harness its power instead of face embarrassment?

Tags: yahoo, msn, aim, souza

[03 Oct 2003]

IM: Managing the medium, managing the message

Comment Logging is not just for legal reasons," argues Mark Kenyon, regional director IBM Lotus. IBM Lotus' Kenyon also prefers IM to email, particularly for collaborating with disparate colleagues on specific projects.

Tags: yahoo, aol, msn, jabber

[24 Sep 2003]

Devil's Advocate: That synching feeling

Comment That supports synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes or Lotus Organizer. Black Sheep Research doesn’t need the power of Lotus Notes, and my policy of avoiding market leaders discouraged me from using Outlook.

Tags: pda, syncing, devil

[15 Jul 2003]

Convergence: When will be the right time for video to the desktop, to the mobile, to the...

Comment Calls will be set up conveniently and easily, by gently clicking buttons built into other common communications applications such as Outlook or Lotus SameTime or instant messenger offerings applications.

Tags: cramosayan, mitel, avaya, ip

[13 Jun 2003]

Through the fog... Better connecting users to technologies

Comment Similarly, users of groupware packages such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook know too well that the term 'collaboration' is a misnomer for 'email' and 'calendar sharing'. Invented' by Lotus Notes founder Ray Ozzie, Groove takes all the best...

Tags: through the fog, fog, quocirca

[05 Jun 2003]

Through the fog... Corporate content management

Comment The knowledge management fervour of the 1990s driven by the likes of Autonomy, DCASoft and Lotus led us down a path of promised enlightenment, where we would be able to identify any requisite piece of information, anywhere, any time.

Tags: workflow, cm, imanage, content management

[06 Mar 2003]

The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net

Comment This month has seen a number of interesting developments, not least a decision to 'simplify' the names of many of the products within the Lotus portfolio. IBM has announced that in future the majority of all Lotus technologies will be known by...

Tags: amex, american express, lotus, bloor

[20 Jan 2003]

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