Lotus Notes Coming to the iPhone?

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

According to AP, those of you corporate types who’ve been holding off buying an iPhone because of a lack of corporate email support may find that reason vanishing soon. IBM is poised to announce a version of Lotus Notes e-mail for the iPhone at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., next week.

Those who already have a Lotus Web-access license will get the software for free. New users will pay $39 a year, to start.

Of course, the downside of this is you need to use a Lotus Domino, not Microsoft Exchange server. That lets out a huge number of customers who have standardized on Exchange.

Also at Lotusphere, IBM also plans to release Lotus Notes and the open-source Lotus Symphony office suite for Apple’s Macintosh computers.

Despite the fact that Apple previously dropped IBM’s PowerPC chips in favor of Intel CPUs, it looks like the relationship is still going decently strong.

While Apple’s 3rd Party SDK hasn’t launched yet, AP says Apple and IBM have been working on this together, sans the public release of the SDK.