Lotus Notes will soon be compatible with the iPhone: email, contacts and calendar push mode
The information was unveiled at the annual IBM Lotusphere conference, the iPhone will soon be able to receive mode push email, contacts and calendars of users of Lotus Notes. Indeed, Lotus Domino servers are an imminent power interface with ActiveSync technology from Microsoft.
Remember that Apple has integrated the technology ActiveSync push mail since version 2.0 of the iPhone firmware. Users Outlook / Exchange and enjoy a few clicks of their information on their smartphone.
IBM / Lotus therefore use the same technology for its new rival: Lotus Domino / Notes will make it compatible with Microsoft ActiveSync. To be more precise, his tool replication of information between server and mobile terminal – Lotus Notes Traveler – who will move in that direction.
For now, many users of Lotus Notes who wish to use their iPhone must use the Notes Web Access, which, if it works perfectly with Safari – the browser of the iPhone – is not very suitable for also intensive.
As such, it would appear that the ActiveSync compatibility is now one of the major demands of European users of Lotus Notes.
On Monday, at the IBM Lotusphere conference, the demonstration was done successfully on an iPhone. Ed Brill, the director of Lotus software products merely to emphasize that his company would support the ActiveSync protocol, “in a future version of Lotus Notes Traveler.”
