17 Facts About Lotus Domino

HCL Notes and HCL Domino are the client and server, respectively, of a collaborative client-server software platform formerly sold by IBM, now by HCL Technologies.

Lotus Domino competes with products from other companies such as Microsoft, Google, Zimbra and others.

The database in Lotus Domino can be replicated between servers and between server and client, thereby allowing clients offline capabilities.

Usually the latest server operating system is only officially supported by a version of HCL Lotus Domino that is released at about the same time as that OS.

All of the security in Notes and Lotus Domino is independent of the server OS or Active Directory.

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Lotus Domino 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.

Until US laws regulating encryption were changed in 2000, IBM and Lotus Domino were prohibited from exporting versions of Notes that supported symmetric encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits.

In 1997, Lotus Domino 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.

Some governments objected to being put at a disadvantage to the NSA, and as a result Lotus Domino continued to support the 40-bit version for export to those countries.

Notes and Lotus Domino uses a code-signature framework that controls the security context, runtime, and rights of custom code developed and introduced into the environment.

Notes and Lotus Domino 6 allowed client ECLs to be managed centrally by server administrators through the implementation of policies.

Notes and Lotus Domino is a cross-platform, distributed document-oriented NoSQL database and messaging framework and rapid application development environment that includes pre-built applications like email, calendar, etc.

Lotus Domino databases are built using the Lotus Domino Designer client, available only for Microsoft Windows; standard user clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Lotus Domino is running on the Eclipse platform and offers many new development environments and tools such as XPages.

IBM Lotus Domino Expeditor is a framework for developing Eclipse-based applications.

In 1996, Lotus released an HTTP server add-on for the Notes 4 server called "Domino".

Changes include significantly updated user interface, near-parity of IBM Notes and IBM iNotes functionality, the IBM Notes Browser Plugin, new XPages controls added to IBM Lotus Domino, refreshed IBM Lotus Domino Designer user interface, added support for To Dos on Android mobile devices, and additional server functionality as detailed in the Announcement Letter.