JUST THIS MORNING I was getting coffee and checking up on my email on my iPhone. While waiting, a guy there finished a call on his Treo 750 and asked me how I liked my iPhone. I began to rave about all the features I liked on the device and lost count of how many times he said “wow,” “cool,” etc.

He asked if there was anything I didn’t like about the phone. I told him that getting it to work with our company’s Lotus Notes email/calendar system has been quite a pain. He said “oh, we have Outlook — is Notes still around?!”

I went on to explain that it very much was still around. I explained how we use it to manage our entire CRM, quoting and quality systems not to mention a variety of smaller applications like HR systems, IT management tools, etc. I told him that we have several websites that are done using Notes/Domino and that it allows us to have people update websites without having to know any HTML code.

I even went on to explain that the latest version of Notes (8) is what I believe to be the most important version of Notes in a long time and that it has a number of features that make it a very contemporary email system and a revolutionary collaboration tool.

He said (and I’m not kidding one bit here): “Wow! I had no idea … and I’m actually an IT Manager. They really ought to do some advertising to get that message out to people!”

answer: c