To Support Mobile Devices Lotus Development Corp. has unveiled the first members of its Domino Everyplace server family, which will let wireless phones and personal digital assistants run mobile Domino and Notes applications. The new server products, based on the underlying Domino XML technology, are in limited beta trials and will be commercially available before the end of the year, Lotus officials say. Prices for the products have not been established. Lotus plans for the products to support multiple mobile devices, including most Web-enabled cell phones and several types of PDAs, with implementation for the Palm OS first, followed by Windows CE and devices such as Epoc Communicators made by Nokia and Ericsson and Windows Pocket PCs made by Compaq. With the new products, Lotus is extending its most popular applications beyond the corporate firewall for secure access to messaging and collaboration applications on wireless devices, president and CEO Al Zollar said at the conference Monday.
Analysts also see potential in the new products.
She uses a Palm Pilot and says that being able to access wireless messages on it would improve the way she communicates at work.