HCL Notes provides business collaboration functions, such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contact management, discussion forums, file sharing, websites, instant messaging, blogs, document libraries, user directories, and custom applications.
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Lotus Notes can be used for email, as a calendar, PIM, instant messaging, Web browsing, and other applications.
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Lotus Notes can be used with Sametime instant-messaging to allow to see other users online and chat with one or more of them at the same time.
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Domino servers and Lotus Notes clients identify NSF files by their Replica IDs, and keep replicated files synchronized by bi-directionally exchanging data, metadata, and application logic and design.
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Creation of a local replica of an NSF file on the hard disk of an HCL Lotus Notes client enables the user to fully use Lotus Notes and Domino databases while working off-line.
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Lotus 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.
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Until US laws regulating encryption were changed in 2000, IBM and Lotus were prohibited from exporting versions of Notes that supported symmetric encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits.
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Some governments objected to being put at a disadvantage to the NSA, and as a result Lotus Notes continued to support the 40-bit version for export to those countries.
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Lotus Notes 5 introduced an execution control list at the client level.
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Lotus Notes and 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.
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Lotus Notes databases are not relational, although there is a SQL driver that can be used with Lotus Notes, and it does have some features that can be used to develop applications that mimic relational features.
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Lotus Notes is a document-oriented database with support for rich content and powerful indexing facilities.
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IBM Lotus Notes includes a database management system but Lotus Notes files are different from relational or object databases because they are document-centric.
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Document-oriented databases such as Lotus Notes allow multiple values in items, do not require a schema, come with built-in document-level access control, and store rich text data.
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Lotus Notes is commonly deployed as an end-user email client in larger organizations.
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Lotus Notes was designed as a collaborative application platform where email was just one of numerous applications that ran in the Lotus Notes client software.
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IBM Lotus Notes 9 continued the evolution of the user interface to more closely align with modern application interfaces found in many commercial packaged or web-based software.
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Publications such as The Guardian in 2006 have criticized earlier versions of Lotus Notes for having an "unintuitive [user] interface" and cite widespread dissatisfaction with the usability of the client software.
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Older versions of Lotus Notes suffered from similar user interaction choices, many of which were corrected in subsequent releases.
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Unlike some other e-mail client software programs, IBM Lotus Notes developers made a choice to not allow individual users to determine whether a return receipt is sent when they open an e-mail; rather, that option is configured at the server level.
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IBM Lotus Notes Expeditor is a framework for developing Eclipse-based applications.
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In today's terminology, PLATO Lotus Notes supported user-created discussion groups, and it was part of the foundation for an online community which thrived for more than 20 years on the PLATO system.
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In 1996, Lotus released an HTTP server add-on for the Notes 4 server called "Domino".
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In 2019, Domino and Lotus Notes became enterprise software products managed under HCL Software.
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