First Major App Using Apple iPhone SDK: Lotus Notes
The iPhone has been perceived as an entertainment consumer grade phone, which prevents it from larger penetration to enterprise audience.
RIM Blackberry and Windows Mobile are the most popular among enterprise space due to their integration with corporate software such Exchange/Outlook/BES. Another popular email/collaboration software platform is is IBM Lotus Notes.
According to the Associated Press, Lotus Notes eMail is coming to Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.
The announcement is expected as early as Sunday the 20th, when IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference kicks off in Orlando. The software is free for those with existing licenses and it will be the first official, third-party application developed with Apple’s new iPhone SDK.
IBM is also expected to announce their free Lotus Symphony flavor of OpenOffice for the Mac at the same time. An IBM spokesman seemingly confirmed the announcements by saying that Apple and IBM have, “a lot in common. We’re going to cross-pollinate.” Let’s just hope they manage to untangle that jumbled Notes UI for finger-friendly navigation during the mating ritual, eh?
[Via Engadget/Via MacRumors]
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