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When Lotus Notes was initially released, it was simply called "Notes" (the name having been taken from PLATO Notes, the mainframe-based software that preceded it.) A Notes client ran on a workstation, and a Notes server ran on a server. Around the time of version 4.5, the monikers changed: the client is still called "Notes", while the server component is now known as "Domino". One may frequently see the terms used interchangeably.
The server runs on several platforms, including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM iSeries, pSeries, and zSeriesSince December, 2001, IBM designates all its mainframes with the name eserver zSeries with the e depicted in IBM's well-known red trademarked symbol. Nonetheless, the term zSeries now popularly refers only to IBM's newest line of 64-bit mainframes, starti. The native client runs on all versions of WindowsImage use policy. Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. The range was first introduced by Microsoft in 1985 and eventually has come to dominate the world personal computer market. All recent versions of and MacOS 9.0 and X. Domino servers can also translate most databases in to HTML for browser based users.
In the past Notes had been criticized for being 'clunky', some icons and terms are not 'standardised' - however with release 6 and 6.5 of the Notes client, email users now have access to many productivity tools.
A design client is available to allow rapid development of databaseA database is an information set with a regular structure. Any set of information may be called a database. Nevertheless, the term was invented to refer to computerised data, and is used almost exclusively in computing. Sometimes it is used to refer to nos consisting of forms, which allow users to create documents; and views, which display selected document fieldsIn computer science, data that has several parts can be divided into fields''. For example, a computer may represent today's date as three distinct fields: the day, the month, the year. Programming languages usually have a record data type to represent co in columns.
Features include group Calendaring and Scheduling, SMTP-based email (HTML based email is available to Java developers), NNTPThe Network News Transport Protocol often abbreviated to NNTP is the protocol that is used by the Usenet internet service. It is a TCP/IP protocol based upon text strings sent over 7-bit ASCII TCP channels. It is used to transfer articles between servers-based news support, and automatic HTMLHyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for creating web pages, that is, information presented on the World Wide Web. Defined as a simple "application" of SGML, which is used by organizations with complex publishing requirements, HT conversion of all documents by the Domino HTTP task. In its latest incarnation (Notes7) it provides a web services interface.
Extremely robust security is built into the product. Notes was the first widely adopted software product to use public key cryptography, for client-server and server-server authentication and for encryption of data, and it remains the product with the largest installed base of PKI users. Until US laws regulating encryption were changed in 2000, Lotus was prohibited from exporting versions of Notes that supported symmetric encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits. At one point, Lotus negotiated an agreement with the NSA that allowed export of a version that supported stronger keys with 64 bits, but 24 of the bits were encrypted with a special key and included in the message to provide a "workload reduction factor" for the NSA. The net effect of this was that users of Notes outside of the US had stronger protection against private sector industrial espionage, but no additional protection against spying by the US government. This implementation was not a secret, and in fact was widely announced, but with some justification many people do consider it to be a backdoor, although it was never a secret. Some governments objected to being put at a disadvantage to the NSA, and as a result Lotus continued to support the 40 bit version for export to those countries. Under current US export laws, Lotus supports only one version of the Notes PKI with even stronger keys and no workload reduction factor. The Domino server's security tools also include S/MIME, SSL 3.0 support with industry standard key sizes for HTTP and other Internet protocols, X.509 client certificates, and an integrated certificate authority.
A particular strength of Notes and Domino is its replication facilities. Servers and clients can replicate database designs and data seamlessly, across all sorts of networks (including modems). This enables users to take full advantage of Notes databases while being off-line - with the client synchronizing any changes when client and server next connect. Even while off-line full security is preserved. Replication can happen : client to client, client to server, server to server.
In addition to being a robust "groupware" system (e-mail, calendaring, shared documents and discussions), Notes/Domino is a platform for developing customized client-server and web applications. Particular strengths of this platform include extremely strong security and a wealth of capabilities (design constructs and code) that facilitate the construction of "workflow" type of applications (which may typically have complex approval processes and routing of data).
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