The district is the sixth largest in the nation, he said, with a $200 million technology budget that includes $100 million for IT. One dedicated Mac supporter, Vijay Sonty, CIO of the Broward County Public Schools in Sunrise, Fla., said the move to improve Notes on the Mac is a big deal for the 275,000 students, 19,000 teachers and 231 schools that his department supports. Those features are also slated for the third quarter of the year. "We're going to be consistent across Mac, Windows and Linux in functionality and releases."Īlso announced is new Mac support for Domino Web Access, IBM's browser-based messaging client, using The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser. "We're committed to it," he said of the Notes Mac version. As a result, Lotus decided to make its Notes for the Mac offering more useful and feature-rich, Cavanaugh said.
While Macintosh users still trail Windows users by a wide margin in corporate computing, they remain a force at companies' creative, design and production teams - and a potential source of substantial revenue. Notes 7.02 for the Mac will run on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system. chips (see "It's official: Apple shifting to Intel chips"). Version 7.02 of Notes for the Mac, slated for release in the third quarter of this year, will include integrated Lotus Sametime instant messaging and support for Macintosh computers that run on Intel Corp. "We have sort of let Mac versions slip, so we're fixing that," he said.
Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president of development for Lotus clients, solutions and tools in IBM's Software Group, said the updates are coming later this year because IBM sees a need.
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