IBM Corp yesterday revealed its Domino server technology which it claims will transform Lotus Notes into an Internet applications server and which will eventually be merged with the InterNotes Web Publisher add-on. IBM is working to have Lotus Notes fully Internet-enabled by the end of the third quarter. It describes Domino as Lotus ore Internet technology and will soon announce applications to support it. The new technology enters beta testing June 3 and is intended to serve Notes data up to Web browsers. IBMsexisting Web Navigator converts HTML into Notes documents. IBM wouldntsay when InterNotes and Domino will be fully integrated. A final version of Domino will ship in a couple months. Domino supports HTTP to render Notes data on-the-fly in HTML format and to serve HTML documents from the file system. With Domino, Web clients will be able to access Notes data and applications. Domino requires a Notes Release 4.x Server and will be up on NT, Solaris, AIX and HP/UX, eventually, although first betas will be on NT. Domino will ship with Notes Server and is available for download from Lotus eb site. But is it all soon enough? One dark cloud on the horizon is a new report from market researcher Input, which suggests that Notes has another two years left as the dominant groupware product before it moves to the Internet and Internet-based products which surpass it in functionality. The research organization expects Notes will have 26 million users compared with 32 million for Internet collaboration.
