The Lotus team, working with IBM's Rational group, is building "in-context" collaboration onto the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), said John Patterson, an IBM Distinguished Engineer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM will show off a new light-duty e-mail application at this week's Lotusphere conference, the company's annual trade show for its Lotus software division. The as-of-yet unnamed e-mail software is ...