Nokia adds support for Lotus Notes in Symbian S60

There's hardly anything more embarrassing that admitting that your company still uses Lotus Notes, but for the millions upon millions (140 million, in fact) of licensed users who'd love the opportunity to check in via their S60-based handset, this one's for you. Starting next month, Lotus Notes support will be granted for Symbian S60 3rd Edition, meaning that anyone with a fresh S60 device can soon tap into Lotus Notes Traveler and access real-time email, calendar, address book, journal and to-do list data. On second thought, maybe you shouldn't be so enthusiastic -- leaving work at work is a blessing too many take for granted.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 21st 2008 8:49AM]

There is nothing wrong with Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes currently has 45% market share and is growing in share every day. The problem really is nearly all the companies that use it use Old versions that came out when windows me was still king no wonder its pants if you used the latest version 8 you would be surprised at how good it really is.

Lotus Traveler is push email already works well on windows mobile based phones (in fact I have one myself) and by the way did I mention ITS FREE!! all part of Domino

Regards

Ezekiel

[baron Posted Nov 21st 2008 9:17AM]

I will have to disagree. I am using the newest version of Notes and while it is much improved (I was using version 6 for a while before going to 8), it doesn't hold a candle to Exchange/Outlook for pure email. I will agree that all the customization you can do on Notes is very impressive and, with the right programmers, trumps Exchange/Outlook. But, again, for pure email - which is what I'd say 80% of the users do with it - it really is not impressive. Most of the users I have that we have migrated to version 8 are incredibly frustrated with the load times, even though they have been issued brand new computers. Now, also, from the back end side, I understand email admins like Notes better, bug again, the 80% (guessing, using the 80/20 rule) using for pure email are not thrilled.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 2nd 2008 4:03PM]

Just posted a simple introduction to 'IBM Lotus Notes Traveler' on Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/tcoustenoble/introducing-ibm-lotus-notes-traveler-85-presentation

There's more to come from IBM in the mobile space and users of Lotus Notes who still use version 4, 5, 6 or even 7 will be really surprised by how innovative version 8 is. Integrated desktop and unified/intuitive interface, innovative collaboration features with 2.0 capabilities to better leverage collective knowledge/social networks...plus it works on Windows, Linux and Mac.