IBM Lotus Notes and Domino is far more than “just e-email,” and you should be squeezing out every last dollar from your investment.

IBM purchased high-flying software company Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995. Its Lotus division still makes money, but it lags far behind the industry in innovation.

Despite the release of a new and improved Lotus Notes 8, it is unlikely that IBM's e-mail software can make any dent in the market dominance of Microsoft Outlook.

Lotus Notes 7 offers a Traveler Companion tool that you can use to connect your Lotus email account to your iPhone. The iPhone uses the companion service because it cannot properly process Lotus ...