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

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 ...

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.

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.

In version 8 of IBM/Lotus's upcoming collaboration suite, the client (Notes) moves to a new Java framework while the server (Domino) gets a number of overdue enhancements.

Because both Lotus Notes and Outlook recognize the iCalendar ICS file format, you can create a business meeting invitation in Lotus Notes and send it to an Outlook user without having to do any.