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IBM iNotes Ultralite Brings Lotus Access To iPhones
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 11:00 PM on September 30, 2008
iPhone/iPod touch users whose offices rely on Lotus Notes for email, calendar, and contacts can now access their information through a customised Safari Mobile interface created by IBM. CNET reports that IBM and Apple are working on a full-fledged Lotus Notes Traveler app or interface for true push access, but in the meantime, iNotes looks like a pretty graceful way to fit your Apple phone into an IBM network. Your network administrator needs to have installed Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0.2 to grant you iNotes access; Notes users who've tried out this webapp, let us know what you think in the comments.
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Jimmy M
Posted 12:19 AM 1/10/08
@Jimmy M: Sorry - that sounded weird. v1.1 INCLUDES Email, Contacts and ToDo's and is currently with Apple for approval
Jimmy M
Jimmy M
Posted 12:18 AM 1/10/08
No love for NotesCal, Lifehacker?
[iphone.jimmymooney.com]
As soon as Apple approves v1.1, I'll be releasing NotesPro which includes Email, Contacts and ToDo's.
Take that, IBM :)
Jimmy M
shoverbj
Posted 12:14 AM 1/10/08
Alas, finally something positive comes from the evil that is Lotus Notes. I cannot stand the look and feel of Notes but it is what my company uses. (sigh)
shoverbj
shoverbj
Posted 12:44 AM 1/10/08
@cfohlin: My company (large automaker, goes by two initials) takes years to move onto new versions of software, so I'm in IT lockdown with Notes 6.5!
shoverbj
guyfromtrinidad
Posted 12:44 AM 1/10/08
Finally a justification for my org to spring for an iphone for me :)
guyfromtrinidad
AndrewJayPollack
Posted 12:38 AM 1/10/08
Finally, the most reliable enterprise mail system back end, gets a nice iPhone front end. Sweet.
AndrewJayPollack
cfohlin
Posted 12:38 AM 1/10/08
@shoverbj: What version of Notes are you using at work? Notes 8 is much improved over 7.
cfohlin
Tomu
Posted 1:10 AM 1/10/08
I'm also trapped in Lotus Notes user hell in my day job as a Corporate Whore™.
A little more development and maybe we can persuade the powers that be to ditch our standard issue blackberries for shiny iphone goodness.
Tomu
toddkravos
Posted 12:59 AM 1/10/08
Been running it on v8 here for a while. Certainly makes the life easier for the user(s) not firmly planted at a desk. I still giggle at the typos though. That keyboard sure takes some getting used to for the lot.
And yes, Notes has come a LONG way with v8.x
Proud Notes fanboy :)
toddkravos
tmorriso
Posted 12:55 AM 1/10/08
Ok, maybe I am just not seeing it, but is there a link that allows you to try this out? Or does it have to be installed on your company's notes server first? I am dying to have a real notes client for my iphone!
tmorriso
bmarko
Posted 2:20 AM 1/10/08
@AndrewJayPollack:
Hahahahahahahahhaha.... that was sarcasm right?
bmarko
DaiWalka
Posted 3:00 AM 1/10/08
@bmarko: lol
DaiWalka
DaiWalka
Posted 2:59 AM 1/10/08
@ben: right there with ya. I "ehat" Lotus Notes, and we're still stuck on 6.5 as well. It takes an act of Congress to get software upgraded at my company and, considering the current bailout issues, it's equally as effective. It'd be nice to not have to forward work emails to a private domain email account and then access that account through the iPhone. Yuck.
DaiWalka
MattHall
Posted 3:56 AM 1/10/08
@DaiWalka: Yeah feeling your pain... a lot of organisations seem to be stuck in an endless loop of:
Notes sucks, so we'll use something else one day.
We won't upgrade Notes because we are going to use something else one day.
We can't be bothered to use something else.
An amusing side note - I tried to write a Notes agent that would forward my email to GMail and preserve the original headers, but managed to basically resend everything in my "Sent" folder going back to 2004. EPIC FAIL.
MattHall
vsolis
Posted 4:29 AM 1/10/08
@tmorriso: this is a server side component that your domino administrator will have to install. there's some talk of a true notes client for the iphone (similar to notes traveller which works with windows mobile). as the iphone matures, i'm confident that we'll see better domino integration in the future.
vsolis
Slopchop
Posted 12:18 AM 1/10/08
@shoverbj: Ditto, my company uses it too. Unfortunately its a point release off, and I don't see them upgrading anytime soon to appease some iPhone users. This would come in handy though.
Slopchop
papahoth
Posted 4:56 PM 1/10/08
@bmarko: Instead we should use? Exchange? Oh yea, real secure, real stable. Web mail like Sarah Palin? Oh yea.
papahoth
papahoth
Posted 4:55 PM 1/10/08
@MattHall: I would suggest that you find someone that knows what they are doing then. Webmail is real secure, ask Sarah Palin. You should be fired for even trying.
papahoth
Jimmer
Posted 5:52 PM 1/10/08
I too am in the Lotus Notes gulag at work. Anyone know of a Notes WinMo client to respect?
Jimmer
ben
Posted 12:25 AM 2/10/08
@DaiWalka:
I created a forwarding agent in Notes and my company sent me an email saying they found the agent and had deleted it because it violated some policy of theirs.
ben
BenRad
Posted 10:44 AM 2/10/08
I still don't understand why everyone hates Notes so much.
BenRad
HilaryIolaus
Posted 3:53 AM 1/10/08
Looks cleaner and easier to use than Notes itself. However, if it's a true IBM product, it'll consume 1/3 of the iPhone's resources.
HilaryIolaus
AccaliaTerpsichore
Posted 1:38 AM 1/10/08
Looks great for the LN user but I think I'm still screwed. We have to VPN in along with a hard token to access our Lotus Notes and I don't think the iphone's embedded VPN takes care of that. Anyone else know anything about VPN and iphone?
AccaliaTerpsichore