Groupware: the undisputed champion
Domino is a unique product, remarkable in several ways. Domino is the only successful example of an integrated IT infrastructure solution. It combines email and messaging, directory services, calendaring and workflow, wireless access, realtime collaboration, major applications like document management and intranet portals, and a true RAD (Rapid Application Development) environment. Domino's combination of replication and middleware technology (Domino Enterprise Connection Services, or DECS) is extremely powerful and unique to Domino. Domino developers maintain that no other technology platform allows them to deliver equivalent solutions faster or cheaper.

The history of Domino includes a string of landmark accomplishments. Domino was the first major IT product to incorporate a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). It was literally the first extranet solution in the market. It was the first major email system to include Web access to email. It was the first Web-based enterprise portal solution. In 1996, it was the first proprietary IT product to fully embrace open Internet-based standards in a bold move to transform an internal IT infrastructure product into an open Internet platform for e-business. Domino was one of the first Web application servers in the market.

Nearly seven years later, countless intranet, extranet, and Internet-based applications are running on Domino, and Domino add-on products like Sametime continue to break new ground. At the same time, Lotus Notes is the most widely used collaborative client application in the world with many capabilities not found in simple email/PIM applications. The list of features and capabilities is too long to enumerate here, but examples include the ability to run agents written in multiple languages as well as Java applets subject to access controls and virtually immune to viruses.