Lotus Notes on the iPhone

For those dissenters out there who may have used Notes 4.x or 5.x (and I can certainly see the objections to those versions of Notes), the new Notes 8 is awesome. It is fast, calendaring is wonderful, and the internal Sametime client is great. It really is the one application that I'd hate to replace. Notes on iPhone will be monstrous. It will certainly be big-time. As for those who still hate Notes -- upgrade to at least 7.5...and REPLICATE for goodness sakes! Ha.

Hahah! I love the people who go, "Granted, I'm using (something at least two or even three major releases back!!!) of Lotus Notes, but it's sooooo clunky..."

Well guess what, if you were still using Outlook 2002 (as well you might have to, considering how ridiculously difficult it can be to upgrade Microsoft products or get backwards compatibility with existing systems) it would be bloody clunky these days too! It's not the fault of the product that you're using a seven year old product when a great new release is out that so far is only the beginning of what's in store for 8.5.

Or is IBM supposed to travel back in time and apply all their new software updates to all their old products from way back when the technology wasn't available? If you want to bitch about Lotus Notes, at least pull your head in and take some time to learn what the /real/ problems are, not what the problems are that you're creating for yourself by using bogglingly out of date versions!

Also, if you have not checked it out, go check out the following site, pretty cool site to use to show what Lotus has been up too lately and it is free to register and play around:

https://greenhouse.lotus.com/home/login.jsp

The things people say about a user interface....

Notes has a lot of advantages on the back end, but please also remember that changing a UI is not that difficult, if you have not seen v8 or notes integration via a portal or mobility product then please do so before making unedumacated judgement calls.

Search IBM/ Lotus for "Use what we sell". If you are a big customer, your rep can show you the software on his/ her own phone. IBM is in the business of making cross platform products. The iPhone is a no-brainer for support from all the standard products. Keep putting pressure on Lotus. Let them know that you don't just want it to work on Windows Mobile 5/6.

I think iPhone users are happy enough that Lotus Notes is coming to the iPhone. The app may or may not be tweaked specifically for the device. But even if it's not, Notes for iPhone is better than no Notes for iPhone for many users. The bottom line is that IBM is bringing proven alternatives to MS, and we should all be happy with that.

I think Sybase is supposed to release an iAnywhere Suite soon that will support the iPhone as a wireless client for Lotus Domino as well as Exchange.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2563

After using the Lotus Notes client for the past 5 years, I don't see how IBM could possibly live up to Apple's usability standards. If anything can ruin the iPhone experience, it's Lotus Notes.

Having local access to your lotus notes databases on the iphone would be excellent for road warriors, sales force, maintenance crews etc. And one of the first ways to take non-apple/itunes information sources with you too.

thanks for the clarification