Microsoft links Outlook to Lotus

Microsoft released a software add-on Monday for the 2003 and 2002 versions of Outlook that allows the e-mail clients to work with a server running IBM's Lotus Domino software. The Notes Connector is available now for free download. It works with versions 5 and 6 of Domino and allows Outlook to retrieve messages, calendar items, address book entries and to-do lists stored on the server.

Lotus includes an e-mail client of its own, but IBM has found that many customers prefer to work with Outlook, which is part of Microsoft's widespread Office productivity package.

About time

Lotus have been providing facilities for Outlook users to use their mail server for quite sometime. Microsoft have finally woken up to the fact that many users are seeing this as hte best option available as Domino is more secure and far more resilient than Exchange and does not need a major migration whenever a new release comes along