Kapor signed on. Naturally, Iris's programmers spend most of their time alone with their computers. They don't like being interrupted by phone calls and knocks on the door.
Meetings are infrequent.
Ozzie believes that's a waste of time because computers do that far more efficiently. By funneling most of the daily office work through Notes, Iris tried to prove that a company can scatter its departments all over the world. All the information is encrypted with sophisticated technology available within Notes. Time and distance become meaningless as entire companies can 'live in Notes,' as users phrase it. Soon it became clear who I.B.M. was after.