Lotus Notes Release 4.0

By Terry Kemp‎

With the announcement of a January 10th ship date and the Release of other IBM Server products on the 13th of March in Sydeny and Melbourne the Eagle has landed with a full Range of products, it is a good time to talk about Lotus GroupWare products.

With the release of Notes, Release 4, it provides major improvements in six areas:


 * Client/server messaging
 * ease of use
 * Internet integration
 * mobility application development
 * programmability
 * enterprise management and scaleability.

Notes Release 4 server will be available in single processor versions (ERPs US$495) as well as multi-processor versions (ERPs US$2,295). The package includes, a WEB Authoring tool called InterNotes Web Publisher 2.0, offering Notes customers the ability to publish Notes-based information to users for Web browsers.

There are three client versions advailable, one designed mainly for E-mail, another which is designed so that it can run custom Notes applications, and another for use by application developers and system administrators.

Lotus Notes Release 4 is able to support 16 platforms and at the moment is shipped OS/2 Warp, Windows NT, and AIX servers. Pluse Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 clients.

Additional client support to follow to include OS/2 Warp, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Macintosh PowerPC and 68K, and Windows NT. As well server types will expand support to include Windows 95, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Novell NetWare.

In Addition, Notes V.4 supports 20 languages:
 * French
 * German
 * International English
 * Italian
 * Japanese
 * Korean
 * Spanish
 * Simplified Chinese
 * Traditional Chinese

And the following languages:


 * Brazilian Portuguese
 * Czech
 * Danish
 * Dutch
 * Finnish
 * French Canadian
 * Hungarian
 * Norwegian
 * Polish
 * Swedish

will all ship within 3 Months.

For more information on Lotus Notes V.4, the visit Lotus' homepage at:http://www.lotus.com