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The History
of Notes
and Domino
of Notes
and Domino
By Richard Schwartz
E
ighteen years after Ray Ozzie struck a deal with Mitch Kapor, the
founder of Lotus Development corporation, and formed Iris
founder of Lotus Development corporation, and formed Iris
Associates to start developing a product based on his vision of col-
laborative software for networked PCs, Lotus Notes and Domino 6
has been released by IBM. Ray’s vision, which has survived corporate
changes and even his own departure to form a new company, Groove
Networks, has grown into one of the most successful software prod-
ucts in history, with an installed base of some 80 million users. Notes
and Domino owe much of their current success to the fact that Lotus
and IBM (which acquired Lotus in 1995, shortly after Lotus acquired
Iris) have kept up with emerging trends in information technology at
every step along the way. The credit for this goes back to the original
vision for the product.
laborative software for networked PCs, Lotus Notes and Domino 6
has been released by IBM. Ray’s vision, which has survived corporate
changes and even his own departure to form a new company, Groove
Networks, has grown into one of the most successful software prod-
ucts in history, with an installed base of some 80 million users. Notes
and Domino owe much of their current success to the fact that Lotus
and IBM (which acquired Lotus in 1995, shortly after Lotus acquired
Iris) have kept up with emerging trends in information technology at
every step along the way. The credit for this goes back to the original
vision for the product.
The Notes Vision
The vision for Lotus Notes was never really about any specific tech-
nology. The proof of this is that software development done at Iris
was cross-platform right from the very beginning. The code that Ray
and the other engineers at Iris wrote was designed to be portable to
many different operating systems and network protocols, and ver-
sions of Notes and Domino have been released for a half dozen differ-
ent processors, five network protocols, and more than a dozen
operating systems. The vision for Lotus Notes was a vision of the way
people work and the tools they need to work together.
nology. The proof of this is that software development done at Iris
was cross-platform right from the very beginning. The code that Ray
and the other engineers at Iris wrote was designed to be portable to
many different operating systems and network protocols, and ver-
sions of Notes and Domino have been released for a half dozen differ-
ent processors, five network protocols, and more than a dozen
operating systems. The vision for Lotus Notes was a vision of the way
people work and the tools they need to work together.
Ray Ozzie first began to piece together his vision when he was a stu-
dent at the University of Illinois. While there, he had access to a sys-
tem called PLATO, which was a mainframe-based timesharing
platform for educational computing. In 1973, a programmer named
David Woolley wrote a program that allowed users of the PLATO sys-
tem to send problem reports to the system managers. The program
also allowed the system managers to respond to the reports, and the
dent at the University of Illinois. While there, he had access to a sys-
tem called PLATO, which was a mainframe-based timesharing
platform for educational computing. In 1973, a programmer named
David Woolley wrote a program that allowed users of the PLATO sys-
tem to send problem reports to the system managers. The program
also allowed the system managers to respond to the reports, and the
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In This Chapter
Understanding the
Notes vision
Notes vision
Understanding the
evolution of Notes
into Domino
evolution of Notes
into Domino
Introducing Notes
and Domino 6
and Domino 6
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