These may have much richer feature sets and deeper infrastructures, but require adaption to the ways of the net. The emphasis is on sharing, simplicity, and security. The key to understanding eRoom is that the emphasis is on user management and simplicity. That makes the application attractive, because it opens Instinctive to a broader audience but it also limits it, because it's not for the kind of applications development environment Notes has traditionally enabled.
Users can add additional access controls at the file and page level.
Files can also be created directly in the eRoom. Any file in the eRoom can be shared by the group. Files can be checked out and eRoom supplies editing, revision, and version control. Discussion groups can be added to the eRoom via a dialogue box. The eRoom exists as a Web server extension.