- Lotus Notes
- A popular groupware product originally developed by Lotus Development Corporation and now supported by IBM. Lotus Notes is the defining force behind the entire groupware market and is the target toward which all other developers aim. Notes includes a flexible database that can contain a variety of data types with none of the restrictions that normally apply, such as fixed field lengths. A Notes field can contain text, scanned images, OLE embedded objects, and even hypertext links to other Notes documents.This database is closely linked with an e-mail system that allows users to forward any document in any Notes database to any other Notes database; a user can send emailtothedatabase,andanapplicationcan even send e-mail to an individual user. Notes can also maintain multiple copies of the database, perhaps on the LAN or on remote workstations, and can synchronize these copies using background dial-up modem connections, IPX/SPX, or TCP/IP. Notes is supported by a large number of networks, including AppleTalk, Banyan VINES, IBM APPC, Novell NetWare, TCP/IP, and X.25.
Dictionary of networking . 2014.
