Nokia announces Lotus Notes support for S60 smartphones
So much for mSuite5. Nokia announced today that it will launch a new software application next month with IBM to bring OEM Lotus Notes support to select S60 phones. The Lotus Notes Traveler solution will become available initially for 44 different handset models and will make S60 accessible to “140 million licensed [Lotus Notes] users”. 140 million, eh? It’s pretty safe to say that while there might be 140 million Lotus Notes licenses out there, the number of active users is likely a bit lower. According to research conducted earlier this year by Ferris Research, the enterprise email / PIM solution market in the US and Europe breaks down like this:
- Exchange: 65%
- Internal POP/IMAP: 15%
- Lotus Notes: 10%
Curious. While 10% is unaccounted for (or error margin perhaps), Lotus Notes still has the overwhelming minority of the enterprise market. As such, we have to ask: Why? S60 handsets still have fantastically inadequate Exchange support and yet Nokia is dumping resources into supporting the least-commonly used enterprise solution on the market. We hope the answer lies in a handful of major contracts Nokia will be awarded as a result of this new announcement, but don’t expect today’s news to have any significant impact on Nokia’s enterprise market share outside of said possible pending contracts.
Tags: Eseries, Lotus Notes, Lotus Traveler, Nokia Symbian, Nseries, S60
Having lived in both Notes/Domino and Exchange environments… well, when it comes down to it I find myself liking Notes a lot better.
This gives me even more of a reason to walk away from my WinMo phone.
Go Nokia!
P.S. Knowing my clients in Europe, nearly all of them are Lotus Notes users. I wonder who paid for that survery, MSFT?
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Gartner and IBM both list Notes as second with 40% .. those numbers are really wrong.
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IBM says 40%? Nice, they’re definitely not biased.
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Agreed, how about folder support for exchange? comon’ nokia!
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Looks to me like the BGR used the “Ferris Research” figures: http://www.robichaux.net/blog/2008/02/ferris-research-lotus-notes-has-10-marke.php
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Actually the latest Gartner report… Gartner’s Market Share: Enterprise E-Mail and Calendaring Software… Exchange had a 47.8 percent market share to Lotus Notes 42.3 percent. The Ferris report was based on a survey of only 916 companies… mostly SMB’s (a market which IBM has never spent much energy marketing Notes to) and mostly in the North American market. I work with 3 Finnish companies on a regular basis and all 3 use Lotus Notes extensively (all 3 companies have 2-4000 seats). I personally prefer Outlook as a client but would take the Notes server over Exchange any day if I was responsible for managing it.
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They still make Lotus Notes? Geez, I thought it was dead….lol
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The global corporation I work for, JP Morgan Chase, uses stupid Lotus Notes. Last count before WAMU merger, they have 140,000 employees.
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Lotus definitely has more than 10% market share. Something is askew in those numbers.
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Just the IBM account alone would justify the development of adding Lotus notes to Nokia’s smartphone.
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Hurray to Nokia for continuous support of the 20-year-old technology that should have been discontinued 10 years ago.
I cannot wait for it to release a command-line only phone that will provide 100% compatibility with 40-year-old IBM mainframes.
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20 year Old technologyyy!!!!!
Dude… Have you experienced Lotus Symphony .. ?? I think . you did not read abt lotus for last 20 years…
Way to go Nokia..
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