Send Us Your Feedback Lotus Development Corp. Companies can develop portals that link to Web pages and messaging systems such as Hotmail, Lotus Notes and Domino, and Microsoft Exchange 2000. James Kobielus, an analyst with the Burton Group, expects large companies and application service providers to have the most use for K-station. Such capabilities won't become available until Discovery Server, slated for shipment early next year. Discovery Server will use vector technology from IBM's research labs to run intelligent associations among data, so it can link any relevant documents across a network by content, authors, or readers.
Users can see if employees are online and available for instant messaging.
Kobielus expects Discovery Server to help companies forge better customer relationships.