LOTUS STARTS SHIPPING ITS $62,500 NOTES GROUPWARE
Published:08-December-1989
By Computergram
Lotus Development Corp has begun ships of its new Lotus Notes group
communications product, which is designed to enable people to
create and access shared information using personal computers over
local and wide area networks. It is designed to be tailored to meet
a variety of shared information needs, including document-oriented
applications such as customer tracking, status report-ing, project
management, information distribution, discussions and electronic
mail. It is based on the client-server computing model, and the
Notes client has an "intuitive" graphical user interface that runs
under OS/2 and Presentation Manager, and under MS-DOS with
Microsoft Windows. The server runs under OS/2 with Novell, 3Com or
IBM network operating systems. It support import and export of
files with widely-used word processing, spreadsheet, graphics and
database packages, needs 80286 for client and server, and starts at
$62,500.
