Dana Gardner: Sybase readies means to make iPhone a Lotus Notes client

March 13 2008

Then there's this...

Take a look at this Flash demo of an Apple iPhone running corporate email mainstay Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange using Sybase technology. And this is without the benefits of the recently delivered SDK.

Not sure when this will be available (I expect quite soon). But it shows that iPhones can very rapidly be used for online/offline corporate email, with the corporate address book accessed via the iPhone's browser. So you won't have to depend on the local address book.
To be clear, I don't know anything about this one, but it seems pretty logical to me.

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Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8  Add/View Comments [15]

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  1. 1  bill geimer  | 3/14/2008 12:06:26 AM

    Very cool demo.

  1. 2  Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 3/14/2008 3:01:21 AM

    Wow. IMAP access to a Domino server. Web access to the directory. And "offline access" to the Safari cache for pages that the user recently opened. That is quite something.

    My wonder, Safari even recognizes phone numbers and email addresses. Looks like Sybase is adding so much to the iPhone that Apple never thought of.

  1. 3  Jesper H  | 3/14/2008 7:36:01 AM

    There's only one problem left - the iPhone can't multitask. If you're running a mailclient on the iPhone, it stops if you start another application.

  1. 4  Jimmy Bracco http://www.bleedyellow.com | 3/14/2008 7:39:12 AM

    ya, just looks like a ripoff of coverflow...

  1. 5  Rob Wunderlich http://www.dominounplugged.com | 3/14/2008 8:04:43 AM

    Commontime's mNotes5 https://web.commontime.com/Products/mNotes5WirelessSynchronization/tabid/293/Default.aspx is also supposed to offer iPhone (don't know whether it's a "will" or "does"), and I also know that MartinScott's Wireless Mail { Link } product will work with iPhone today.

  1. 6  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 3/14/2008 8:13:03 AM

    @5 and both were mentioned in the full article linked in my other blog post on this topic yesterday. (Nice press for Jamie Magee!)

  1. 7  Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 3/14/2008 9:49:37 AM

    Jesper, the iPhone can multitask. Open the iPod application, start playing a tune, go to the calendar. Or, while in a phonecall, go to the homescreen, select any application.

    It's the third party applications that must not be multitasked.

  1. 8  Craig Wiseman http://www.wiseman.la/cpw | 3/15/2008 9:08:19 PM

    @7 - By that standard my PalmOS treo 680 multitasks, and it does it better than the iPhone. And the multitasking purists assure me that PalmOS is not a true multtasking OS.

  1. 9  Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 3/16/2008 4:10:31 AM

    Having used one Treo 600, five Treo 650, two Treo 680, and a bunch of the Windows Mobile Treos, I consider myself quite familiar with the Treo line. Please explain how the Treo 680 "does it better".

  1. 10  Craig Wiseman http://www.wiseman.la/cpw | 3/17/2008 8:15:14 AM

    @9 Well, on a basic level, third parties are allowed to participate and multitask, and the PalmOS does that pretty well. I count that as better.

    We don't know about the iPhone would work in that kind of situation because it's not possible.

  1. 11  Craig Wiseman http://www.wiseman.la/cpw | 3/17/2008 1:37:45 PM

    @9 My main point (which you ignored) was that your standard to judge multitasking is too low.

  1. 12  Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 3/17/2008 2:27:14 PM

    Well, my experience with the Treo are different from yours. I have seen Treos without any additional software installed behaving quite well, and as soon as you added the TomTom navigation software, they started crashing left and right. That is one of the software packages which need to run in the background.

    I would also maintain that the underlying operating system of the iPhone has a proven track record of being a rock solid mutlitasking platform, whereas the Palm OS version the Treo uses was never even designed to multitask.

    I will probably have to take responsibility for my low standards though.

  1. 13  Mika Heinonen http://www.siipi.com/mika | 3/17/2008 3:25:53 PM

    This is the coolest thing in the whole history of mobile phones! iPhone 16MB is the best phone on the market, not even the Sony Ericsson or Nokia phones can come close to that.

  1. 14  Craig Wiseman http://www.wiseman.la/cpw | 3/17/2008 7:34:28 PM

    @12 My experience with PalmOS (+ & -) would be another post, but I haven't used TomTom and so haven't seen the same issues you have.

    Your point about PalmOS is correct - it's an ancient thing and was sorely in need of updating 2 years ago. The Centro's nice hardware, but it's hard to imagine them coming back from the grave.

    I AM curious about what you know about the "underlying OS" of the iPhone. Mr. Heinonen is absolutely correct that the user experience with the iPhone is ... amazing. However, all I've seen of the OS is that it's a "version of MacOS". Which could mean a million things. Given the responsiveness of the UI, I'd guess that they've done some serious tweaking of the OS to let it be so fast on the comparatively meager hardware resouces available on a smartphone (sic). And I'd also guess that that tweaking will show signs of strain if/when third party apps are allowed to run concurrently.