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Domino is also a very powerful, integrated, web applications server.
Unfortunately the combination of these two marketing directions has lead to confusion. The future is collaborative applications accessible over the web. Thus Domino is perfectly positioned. The Lotus Notes product was designed to promote the sharing of unstructured information. Development is easier if you Understand the issues and how Lotus Notes addressed them .