What are the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape that iNotes supports?
Dumont: Version 5.09a supports IE 5.0 with Service Pack 1 and above. Version 5.10 adds IE 6 support to that. In version 6, everything will be supported with the added ability to use Win32 Netscape 4.7 clients. What are the benefits of using iNotes if you have Outlook clients? Dumont: That, I think, is a different product. There’s iNotes Web Access, and another product called Web Access for Microsoft Outlook. With that, you can use the Outlook client on the backend. Does iNotes support any other e-mail systems? Dumont: Basically you just need a Domino server, R5 or later. If you want to use a dual client model, where a user may use Notes just when they’re in the office, your Notes client just needs to be an R5 client — it doesn’t need to be 5.08 — and once you’re set up like that, you want to make sure you’re using the iNotes mail template, and you have an HTTP password for Internet access. Then you’re in business. What’s the latest with Domino Off Line Services (DOLS)? On the replica
Version 5.09a supports IE 5.0 with Service Pack 1 and above. Version 5.10 adds IE 6 support to that. In version 6, everything will be supported with the added ability to use Win32 Netscape 4.7 clients. From an administrator’s perspective, what is Lotus doing to make iNotes installation as simple as possible? That was one of our key design criteria from the beginning. We wanted to ensure that this was allowing admins to leverage their existing investments. In terms of converting existing users using just Notes or converting to iNotes full time or having dual client access, the only thing you need to do for exiting users is run the convert utility on the server. You can do that one time for all your users; you load the convert task, specify the mail fields you want to convert, specify the template currently being used, and the new template you want to start using. Does iNotes support any other e-mail systems? Basically you just need a Domino server, R5 or later. If you want to use a dual
