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Lotus Notes can be used for many applications as well as for internal communication collaborative applications, including emails, calendaring, PIM, instant messaging, Web browsing, and a variety of feature-rich custom applications. It can be used to access both local- and server-based applications and data. The current version of Lotus Notes is 8.5.3. (See http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/ for more details).
In early Lotus Notes can be used as an IMAP and POP email client with non-Domino mail servers. Recipient addresses can be retrieved from any LDAP server, including Active Directory. The client also does web browsing, although it can be configured to launch the default browser instead.
Features include group calendaring and scheduling, SMTP/MIME-based email, NNTP-based news support, and automatic HTML conversion of all documents by the Domino HTTP task.
Lotus Notes integration with IBM Sametime instant messaging allows users to see other users online and chat with one or more of them at the same time. Beginning with Release 6.5 this functionality is built into Lotus Notes as a no-cost entitlement, with presence awareness is available in email and other Notes applications for users in organizations that use both Lotus Notes and IBM Sametime.
Since version 7, Notes has provided a web services interface. Domino can be a web server for HTML files too; authentication of access to Domino databases or HTML files uses Domino's own user directory and external systems such as Microsoft's Active Directory.
A design client, Lotus Domino Developer, is available to allow rapid development of databases consisting of forms, which allow users to create documents; and views, which display selected document fields in columns.
In addition to being a groupware system (email, calendaring, shared documents and discussions), Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino is also a platform for developing customized client–server and web applications. Its use of design constructs and code allows easier construction of "workflow"-type applications, which typically have complex approval processes and routing of data.
Since Release 5, Lotus server clustering has been able to provide geographic redundancy for servers.
Later in its product lifecycle, Lotus Notes adopted leading design techniques and prevailing user interface and navigation paradigms first popularized by Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla and others. Features Lotus Notes may have first included were GUI tabs for multiple pages, searches and functions, and squared-off workspace chiclets which are now used on the iPhone.
As of October 4, 2011, Lotus Notes 8.5.3 is the newest release, providing more advancements in building custom software applications.
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