When railway contractor Holland Company converted its collaboration software from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes, the company knew its current applications could stay on track without getting derailed by future upgrades. And even as Armonk, NY-based IBM Corp. launched Lotus Notes 7, Big Blue's newest version of the Lotus Notes collaboration platform, Holland Company was confident it could upgrade to the new version without ever worrying about rewriting its existing applications
Developers have a new option for extending Lotus Domino applications to mobile devices thanks to a new version of iAnywhere Solutions Inc.'s Pylon Application Server released on Monday.
At the annual Lotusphere conference here this week, third-party vendors unwrapped a bevy of tools designed to bolster management and performance of messaging products from IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software.