I worry that IBM is missing the point: a solution that works just as well as what Apple demoed with Exchange (or as well as offerings that are like the Blackberry one) needs to be available from IBM for the iPhone. It is too important and significant of a device to ignore. DWA ultralite is not good enough.

I’ll look for a WordPress plugin for Blackberry. For what its worth, I posted this reply from an iPhone (ironically while at an IBM office) and it worked great.

Final thought: as someone who’s passionate about Domino and Apple products I think the amount of collective blogging on this iPhone topic just serves to illustrate how many other people are out there that want and now, need these products to work perfectly together. Prior to WWDC ‘08 that was because it was cool. Now, its because our organizations are suddenly demanding us to provide iPhone functionality that many people are now aware of. Apple and Microsoft have set the expectations and prompted our users to ask IT: so why do we continue to use Notes? – That puts us back to having to sell it internally all over again.

The iphone has been discussed on a bunch of lotus-related blogs for the last week. In all three of my postings on the topic, I specifically mentioned the DWA “ultralite” mode…which is what we announced at lotusphere. It is in fact being delivered *early* in domino 8.0.2, expected to ship in August. It is already in beta, though admittedly an earlier build, in the 8.5 domino public beta.

There are also third party solutions in market today such as sybase ianywhere.

Btw a real pain to comment on your blog from a blackberry.