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 ...

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 ...

Less than a week before rival IBM Corp.’s annual conference for Lotus Notes users kicks off, Microsoft Corp. is introducing new resources that it hopes will persuade Notes customers to migrate to its ...

Less than a year ago, IBM released Version 6 of the venerable Lotus Notes collaboration software, and promised that Lotus Software would henceforth be shipping major releases along a 12-to-15-month ...

IBM's Lotus Software unit is retooling its family of e-mail, messaging and collaboration software with a big dose of Java. At its annual Lotusphere developer's conference this week, Lotus will ...

Lake Buena Vista, Fla.—Using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) as the linchpin, Lotus Software Group and parent IBM last week laid out an integrated collaboration and Web services strategy for Notes ...

It is unlikely that IBM's latest email client, Lotus Notes 8, will make a dent in Microsoft Outlook's hegemony. According to Dion Wiggins, director of strategic development at Strat-etech Consulting, ...

IBM plans to announce on Monday an upgrade to its Lotus Notes e-mail client, adding new search and instant-messaging functions. As previously reported, the new version 6.5 of Notes/Domino Workplace is ...