The term Lotus Notes is now used to refer to the underlying client-server architecture that the product is built upon. In the earlier Lotus Notes product, a powerful engine served up information to the Notes desktop client. When this functionality was being beta tested the code name was Domino . Domino is now a fully standard, Java -compliant, Webserver. An Application development platform.
Domino comes with some pre-written functionality.
These are very powerful Domino databases like any other. Discussion databases, document tracking databases, simple workflow applications etc. Cooperatively processing unstructured information. Imagine a clerk at a bank processing a customer's account record. Date created, Date last accessed.