Meantime, Notes guru Raymond Ozzie, president of Lotus Development Corp subsidiary Iris Associates Inc, has been talking about how the IBM Corp company plans to dress Notes up for survival in the age of the Internet, saying that versions targeted at specific professions are planned – The optimal thing is to have not one but different user interfaces for different professions, including students and teachers and salespeople on the road, he said. The new features are to come in the forthcoming Version 5.0 upgrade, he said.This will also be able to replicate directly to external replication engines of SQL databases and future replication capabilities for the World Wide Web. And Notes 5.0, due in 12 to 18 months, will enable Notes agents to run Java scripts.
