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IBM Notes (formerly Lotus Notes; see branding, below) and IBM Domino (formerly Lotus Domino〔(IBM Retires Lotus, Focuses on ‘Social Business’ ). Channelnomics.com (2012-11-19). Retrieved on 2013-07-17.〕) are the client and server, respectively, of a collaborative client-server software platform sold by IBM. IBM Notes provides business collaboration functions, such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contacts management, teamrooms, discussion forums, file sharing, microblogging, instant messaging, blogs, and user directories. IBM Notes can also be used with other IBM Domino applications and databases. IBM Notes 9 Social Edition removed integration with the office software package IBM Lotus Symphony, which had been integrated with the IBM Lotus Notes client in versions 8.x. Lotus Development Corporation originally developed "Lotus Notes" in 1989. IBM bought the Lotus corporation in 1995 and it became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM. it forms part of the IBM Software and Systems Group under the name "IBM Collaboration Solutions". IBM Notes is a desktop workflow application, commonly used in corporate environments for email but can also be used to access databases such as document libraries and custom applications. ==Design== IBM Notes is a client-server cross-platform application runtime environment the provides an interface to the IBM Notes and Domino software. IBM Notes can be used as an email client without an IBM Domino server, for example, as an IMAP client. IBM Notes and Domino provides email, calendars, instant messaging (with additional IBM software voice- and video-conferencing and web-collaboration), discussions/forums, blogs, and an inbuilt personnel/user directory. In addition to these standard applications, an organization may use the IBM Domino Designer development environment and other tools to develop additional integrated applications such as request approval / workflow and document management. The IBM Notes and Domino product consists of several components: * IBM Notes client application (since version 8, this is based on Eclipse) * IBM Notes client, either: * * a rich client * * a web client, IBM iNotes * * a mobile email client, IBM Notes Traveler * IBM Domino server or the IBM XWorks server, a cross platform application server which supports data replication to other servers and clients for offline access * IBM Domino Administration Client * IBM Domino Designer (Eclipse-based integrated development environment) for creating client-server applications that run within the Notes framework. IBM Notes and Domino compete with products from other companies such as Microsoft, Google, Zimbra and others. Because of the application development abilities, IBM Notes and Domino is often compared to products like Microsoft Sharepoint.〔 〕〔 〕 The database in IBM Notes and Domino can be replicated between servers and between server and client, thereby allowing clients offline capabilities. IBM Domino, a business application as well as a messaging server, is only compatible with IBM Notes. IBM Notes (and since IBM Domino 9, the Notes Browser Plugin) may be used to access any IBM Domino application, such as discussion forums, document libraries, and numerous other applications. IBM Notes resembles a web-browser in that it may run any compatible application that the user has permission for. IBM Notes provides applications that can be used to: * access, store and present information through a user interface * enforce security * replicate, that is, allow many different servers to contain the same information and have many users work with that data The standard storage mechanism in IBM Domino is a NoSQL document-database format, the "Notes Storage Facility" (.nsf). The .nsf file will normally contain both an application design and its associated data. IBM Notes can also access relational databases, either through an additional server called Lotus Enterprise Integration for Domino, through ODBC calls or through the use of XPages. As IBM Notes and Domino is an application runtime environment, email and calendars operate as applications within IBM Notes, which IBM provides with the product. A Domino application-developer can change or completely replace that application.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Third party alters and extends the email and calendaring application supplied by IBM for Lotus Notes ) 〕 IBM has released the base templates as open source as well.〔 〕 Programmers can develop applications for IBM Notes in a variety of development languages including: * the Java programming language either directly or through XPages * LotusScript, a language resembling Visual Basic The client supports a formula language as well as JavaScript. Software developers can build applications to run either within the IBM Notes application runtime environment or through a web server for use in a web browser, although the interface would need to be developed separately unless XPages is used. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「IBM Notes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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