Chat, however, is the more common conferencing technology. Users just connect directly to other e-mail addresses and type messages in realtime. To understand which groupware to choose, organizations must first understand the problems they want to solve. The Florida Governor's Office needed their groupware to be flexible. It choose Lotus Notes.
Notes can handle documents that have thousands of pages of text.
In those documents you can have embedded graphics, spreadsheets and word-processing documents. Basically, it can handle anything you can cut and paste. Lotus Notes works on almost any platform, making it a wise investment in a world of changing trends. However, other choices also have attractive features. Some are cheaper, some more Internet-based and some are great for calendaring.