The future of IBM Lotus Notes is social.

The way you will use email in the future is as an embedded and integrated part of your daily workspace. It will be part of your social intranet and in context with what you do! Ed Brill, who is IBM’s top manager for Lotus Notes and Productivity Tools development  showed this in one of his presentations at Lotusphere 2012.

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