Platform-independent navigation and publishing. Global indexing of content. Promise of powerful tools in the future. The stated direction of products like Notes is be fully WWW enabled. By Fall 1996, you should be able to access a Notes server with a thin browser such as Netscape and get all the functionality of Notes in real time, without a Notes client.
Notes is the Internet.
However, what the Notes executives on the lecture circuit do not realize is that the problem runs deeper. In the face of rapid change, product hype, and fluid boundaries between these two technologies, bewilderment and bad choices are not surprising. Let's look at this situation through the eyes of an Information Framework that can be used to bring order to confusion. Information management deals with how people apply context to data to produce meaningful information. The intent behind this can range from satisfying basic curiosity to making better decisions.