As president Jim Manzi suggested that the base of users for its Notes could rise to 20m by the end of 1997, from 1.35m currently, and reaffirmed a previous forecast of 10m Notes users by the end of this year, Lotus Development Corp announced a string of development in the Notes groupware world. Apple Computer Inc is to bundle Lotus Notes Express with its Power Macintosh and PowerBook computers, and the two plan joint development, marketing and support for services including Lotus Notes 4.0 for the Power Macintosh, in particular seeking better interoperability between Notes and Apple PowerTalk. The Notes Express bundle will be available on some Power Macs next quarter in the US. Lotus also announced immediate availability of Lotus Video for Notes 1.0 at $2,700 per site. The prod uct incorporates stored di gital video into Notes doc uments and distributes vid eo over local and wide area networks. The first versi on runs on an OS/2 Notes server and requires Notes 3.1.5 or above client and 3.2 or above server soft ware on an 80486 or Penti um. Windows-based Video for Notes client software is $120. Lotus also exten ded its agreements with AT&T Corp and the two will now integrate voice, facsi mile, electronic mail and messaging-based applicati ons worldwide, integrating AT&T’s Intuity Audix voice mail system and Notes and cc:Mail in the second half.
