Dictionary of Computers - Lotus Notes

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Business software combining database and message facilities to help people in an organization to share information and work together. Notes is a very versatile groupware program that can be customized to suit the needs of the organization.

Although commentators had believed Notes to be under threat from cheaper Internet-based solutions, in fact its popularity increased in the late 1990s, when Lotus lowered the price of Notes and released its Domino software which acts as both a Notes server and a Web server. In 1995, Lotus Development Corporation was bought by IBM, which wanted Notes, in order to compete with Microsoft's forthcoming Exchange groupware.

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