Gregg Eldred

It looks like the Apple sites have been monitoring IBM for news concerning the iPhone and Domino Web Access. A post at MacNN has a pretty good overview of the state of enterprise messaging on the iPhone, including screenshots of the iNotes interface on the iPhone, with these comments concerning Lotus Notes:

Lotus iNotes appears – at least at the moment, since IBM considers the screenshots conceptual – to have a sparsely populated field of buttons on each screen, allowing for easy navigation, so the user is not required to be tenuously precise. IBM presents the interface in Safari, but with a familiar, functional interface.

When last seen in January, IBM noted it was then at a developmental stage, "not something that [is] ready to go out and market or launch," this release insinuates that the company is close to a finished product. Some viewed the news as a boon, while others panned it, saying the demographics of Lotus Notes and the iPhone were so radically different.

While it is not the first solution to Lotus-using iPhone owners' problems, it is the first official solution. PocketMac preceded Lotus iNotes, with its app GoBetween for Lotus Notes, and Sybase with iAnywhere Mobile Office. Both solutions included support for several of Lotus' features, but had some missing features, such as corporate directory usage, or calendar information.

So far, there is only one comment on the post, pointing out that the "demographics" aren't as radical as the author believes to be true. That comment includes the usual disparaging comment concerning Lotus Notes. *sigh*

In case you haven't seen it, here is one of the screenshots of the interface. The article has a few more.



Link: MacNN: Web-based Lotus iNotes for iPhone, late-2008 release

Technorati tag: iNotes iPhone Lotus

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