Although most folks today don't know, Lotus Notes was ahead of its time. It was inspired by the Plato Notes messaging system of the 1970s, developed as an early collaboration system in the early 1980s ...

IBM announced last night that it is selling the final components from its 1995 acquisition of Lotus to Indian firm HCL for $1.8 billion. IBM paid $3.5 billion for Lotus back in the day. The big pieces ...

IBM's Lotus division has introduced the latest updates to its desktop messaging and collaboration server software. With Notes 7 and Domino 7, released Wednesday, IBM is offering new collaboration ...

IBM is planning to release on Dec. 14 a public beta of Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition that will no longer use the Lotus brand. IBM has decided to offer a public beta, the first in a long time for ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More In a move that has been a long time in the making, IBM is ...

Thirty-one years ago, Massachusetts-based software developers Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs created a program — an electronic spreadsheet — that would change the world. A year later, on Jan. 26, 1983 ...

A new version of IBM’s Lotus Notes messaging client that adds instant messaging and other new tools will be available worldwide at the end of September, with licenses starting at about $90 per user, ...

When IBM bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995, it looked as though the venerable computing giant was just about to lock up the software industry and coast to unstoppable profits. Eighteen years later ...

commentary It seemed that just about every month last year another story would appear in the media about an account that IBM lost to Microsoft on the basis of a Notes-Exchange migration, with Defence ...

Notes for Mac to add support for SameTime IM and Web client running Firefox. IBM also to support Intel-based Macs. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies.

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank has chosen to standardize on IBM Corp.’s Lotus collaboration software, IBM said Tuesday, displacing Microsoft Corp.’s rival SharePoint-based platform. U.S. Bank plans to ...

IBM's Verse borrows ideas from Google's Inbox, then adds Watson-powered querying to let users tame their email Verse email from IBM is the sort of service you’d normally associate with a scrappy ...