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From: Palevich@apple.com (Jack Palevich)
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Subject: Re: Lotus Notes Info. Wanted
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Date: 16 Mar 90 18:42:17 GMT
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In article <1990Mar16.002532.16031@cs.uoregon.edu> 
akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
> I believe that Irene Greif at Lotus plays a major role in the
> development of Notes. She was the conference chair of CSCW 88, and was
> one of the coauthors of a paper presented there (which, for some
> reason, is not part of the papers that are bound into the conference
> proceedings).

As I recall, the reason was that Lotus didn't want to publish information 
about unreleased products.  This is a general problem with corporate R&D 
-- researchers can't talk about their best work until it's either shipped 
or canceled.  If it's shipped, then it's difficult to keep the paper or 
talk from sounding like an advertisement for the product.  If it's 
cancled, well then you have to deal with the stigma attatched to 
cancelation .

Isn't Lotus Notes basicly a customizable, souped-up, company-wide 
electronic mail/file transfer system?

Jack Palevich, Meerkat Handler
Apple Computer, Inc.