IBM now coming to the iPhone with iNotes

Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone which is no big surprise considering
how popular it has become in the enterprise. Below is some of the
article and links to iNotes screenshots.

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IBM has unveiled a sneak peek of its new Lotus iNotes, a web app client
for its Lotus Domino messaging server to bring email, calendar, and
contacts to iPhone. The move fulfills rumors of customized iPhone
support for Lotus Notes and demonstrates IBM's evolving interest in
Apple within the enterprise.

Planned for delivery later this year, Lotus iNotes is built upon IBM's
existing Lotus Domino Web Access infrastructure. The company's web site
invites users to "bring the enterprise to your Apple iPhone" and says
the software will deliver a "rich Apple iPhone user experience."

IBM betting on Apple

Support for the iPhone in Lotus Notes is only IBM's latest step in
investing in Apple's platforms as a competitive alternative to
Microsoft's Windows. An AP report from January cited IBM spokesman Mike
Azzi as noting that his company has "a lot in common" with Apple. "We're
going to cross-pollinate," he said.

Earlier this year in May, IBM released its Informix Data Server 11 for
Mac OS X Server. And over the course of the last year, multiple groups
within the company have launched pilot programs aimed at evaluating
support for migrating to Apple's Mac computers within the company.

An initial study at IBM Research, which started in October of 2007,
found that 86% of those participating wanted to keep their MacBook Pro
laptops over returning back to IBM ThinkPads running Windows. ³It has
been easier learning the Mac than learning Vista,² one participant
reported. IBM has since expanded its Mac pilot program.

Full Article and nice screenshots here:

http://snipurl.com/3css0 [www_appleinsider_com]

David Moyer wrote:
> Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone which is no big surprise considering
> how popular it has become in the enterprise. Below is some of the
> article and links to iNotes screenshots.
>

"no big surprise considering how popular it has become in the enterprise."

You're joking, no?

Steve

David Moyer <davmoy@world.com> wrote in news:489c08e4$0$48220$815e3792
@news.qwest.net:

> IBM betting on Apple
>

IBM's betting Apple will have cut and paste before this puppy ever
happens.....(c;

Maybe CTRL-C and CTRL-P? No, that won't work, no control clicker on the
Etch-A-Sketch keyboard. Hmm....Maybe iNotes will be later than we
think....

Steve de Mena <steve@stevedemena.com> wrote in
news:MOmdnQNvsruEkwHVnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@giganews.com :

> David Moyer wrote:
>> Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone which is no big surprise
>> considering how popular it has become in the enterprise. Below is
>> some of the article and links to iNotes screenshots.
>>
>
> "no big surprise considering how popular it has become in the
> enterprise."
>
> You're joking, no?
>
> Steve
>

Ok, ok...everybody quit rolling around under their computer desk....(c;

No, Steve, he's dead serious. He thinks it's a business machine. Sad,
isn't it?

In article <Xns9AF474BFC1D79noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

> Steve de Mena <steve@stevedemena.com> wrote in
> news:MOmdnQNvsruEkwHVnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@giganews.com :
>
> > David Moyer wrote:
> >> Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone which is no big surprise
> >> considering how popular it has become in the enterprise. Below is
> >> some of the article and links to iNotes screenshots.
> >>
> >
> > "no big surprise considering how popular it has become in the
> > enterprise."
> >
> > You're joking, no?
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
> Ok, ok...everybody quit rolling around under their computer desk....(c;
>
> No, Steve, he's dead serious. He thinks it's a business machine. Sad,
> isn't it?

IBM seems to think it's a business machine...

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
<http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>

On Aug 8, 3:50*am, David Moyer <dav...@world.com> wrote:
> Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone which is no big surprise considering
> how popular it has become in the enterprise. Below is some of the
> article and links to iNotes screenshots.
>
> ---
>
> IBM has unveiled a sneak peek of its new Lotus iNotes, a web app client
> for its Lotus Domino messaging server to bring email, calendar, and
> contacts to iPhone. The move fulfills rumors of customized iPhone
> support for Lotus Notes and demonstrates IBM's evolving interest in
> Apple within the enterprise.
>
> Planned for delivery later this year, Lotus iNotes is built upon IBM's
> existing Lotus Domino Web Access infrastructure. The company's web site
> invites users to "bring the enterprise to your Apple iPhone" and says
> the software will deliver a "rich Apple iPhone user experience."
>
> IBM betting on Apple
>
> Support for the iPhone in Lotus Notes is only IBM's latest step in
> investing in Apple's platforms as a competitive alternative to
> Microsoft's Windows. An AP report from January cited IBM spokesman Mike
> Azzi as noting that his company has "a lot in common" with Apple. "We're
> going to cross-pollinate," he said.
>
> Earlier this year in May, IBM released its Informix Data Server 11 for
> Mac OS X Server. And over the course of the last year, multiple groups
> within the company have launched pilot programs aimed at evaluating
> support for migrating to Apple's Mac computers within the company.
>
> An initial study at IBM Research, which started in October of 2007,
> found that 86% of those participating wanted to keep their MacBook Pro
> laptops over returning back to IBM ThinkPads running Windows. ³It has
> been easier learning the Mac than learning Vista,² one participant
> reported. IBM has since expanded its Mac pilot program.
>
> Full Article and nice screenshots here:
>
> http://snipurl.com/3css0* *[www_appleinsider_com]

IBM is fundamentally a hardware company. Their software sucks, plain
and simple. Lotus might be a huge deal 10 years ago. But it isn't much
today. And IBM's awful record with software doesn't help.

I take offence to 'Their software sucks, plain
and simple.'

You must be a PC person, and have no clue they are the largest software
company in the world.

Do you remember the census?
How about voting records.
How about the Moon??

As far as Lotus, well I am not impressed with that, but they did not write
it.



>IBM is fundamentally a hardware company. Their software sucks, plain
>and simple. Lotus might be a huge deal 10 years ago. But it isn't much
>today. And IBM's awful record with software doesn't help.

On Aug 8, 7:05*pm, "Bill" <barg...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I take offence to 'Their software sucks, plain
> and simple.'
>
> You must be a PC person, and have no clue they are the largest software
> company in the world.
>
> Do you remember the census?
> How about voting records.
> How about the Moon??
>
> As far as Lotus, well I am not impressed with that, but they did not write
> it.
>
> >IBM is fundamentally a hardware company. Their software sucks, plain
> >and simple. Lotus might be a huge deal 10 years ago. But it isn't much
> >today. And IBM's awful record with software doesn't help.

I work on high performance computing. While I agree their stuff that
often built with hardware as a bundle is good. Their record with stuff
that people use in day to day bases is ugly.

Previously on alt.cellular.attws, Bill said:

> As far as Lotus, well I am not impressed with that, but they did not write
> it.

Maybe not originally, but IBM hasn't really made it any better since
they bought Lotus oh so many years ago.

I'm forced to use Notes for work. I hate it. I hate its UI, I hate
the way it does email, I hate the fact that two copies on two different
machines configured identically behave differently, I hate that my
position in the message queue will randomly change to a completely
different queue in the database...

Did I mention that I hate Lotus Notes?

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol

Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #86.
I will make sure that my doomsday device is up to code and properly
grounded.

Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote in news:alangbaker-
03B8FC.13112808082008@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net:

> IBM seems to think it's a business machine...
>
>

They used to think our Systems 34 was a business machine, too! We proved
them wrong on many occasions....(c;

Many years later, a local Catholic church gave me a complete System 34 with
OS and manufacturing softwares. I kept it for a couple of years but needed
the warehouse for other stuff so we pushed it up in my van, after stripping
some beautiful power supply parts out of it. We backed the van up to a
huge dumpster, put down the ramp from the truck to the lip of the dumpster
and unceremoniously dumped a couple of hundred grand of IBM minicomputer, 6
terminals, a chain printer and some terminal equipment....into the trash.

One of the 14" platters from one of the fixed disk drives and an 8" hard-
sectored monster floppy are in a nice frame a friend provided on my wall, a
bit of IBM history. I think I remember the huge hard drives, two of them
in my unit, that took 3-phase 208VAC at about 70A to power the main CPU
with its drives, were something like 84MB...megabytes with the M, not
G...that stored what the 16K of RAM wanted to save...(c; I don't remember,
quite, but I think RAM was magnetic cores in holes on PC board frames, but
I can't quite remember that. By the simplest standards of today, it was
nothing.

The first memory storage I ever saw was also IBM. It was an 8 kilobyte
memory drum the size of a Volkswagen, and about as heavy. 8K! We weren't
allowed to go into the room where it was operating, only look through a big
window Cornell University had installed for observation. The slightest
movement caused it to crash hard requiring some really expensive repairs.

Yes, I can see iPhone may fascinate IBM as a business machine...(c;

.....just hope some young IBM whippersnapper doesn't notice its Xerox GUI
interface....inventors of Windoze...(c;