Lotus Notes Compare Chart

	A	B	C	D	E
1	1. Mail
2	2. Calendar and Scheduling
3	3. To Do's
4	4. Personal Contacts
5	5. Attachments/Miscellaneous/Other Features
6
7	Table 1: Mail
8	Feature	Lotus Notes Client	Lotus Domino Web Access	Common PIM Portlets - Lotus Domino	Common PIM Portlets - Microsoft Exchange
9	Views and Folders
10	File type used	NSF (Server, Local)	NSF (server)	NSF	Exchange repository
11	In-box View	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
12	Drafts View	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
13	All Documents View	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
14	Discussion Thread View	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
15	Folders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
16	Nested Folders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
17	Create and delete folders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
18	Drag & drop messages into folders	Yes	Yes	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
19	Copy & Move to folder	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
20	Discover folder	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No	No
21	Unread count within folders	Yes	No	No	No
22	Soft Deletes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
23	Restore a Message	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
24	From the action bar, open mail into specific view (ie. inbox, sent, drafts, etc)	No	Yes	No	No
25	Support displaying columns defined in mail template	Yes	Yes	No	No
26	Support resizing various column widths	Yes	Yes	No	No
27	Forwarding multiple selected documents	Yes	Yes	No	No
28	Printing multiple selected documents	Yes	Yes	No	No
29	Displaying Attention indicator	Yes	Yes	No	No
30	Color coding view lines based on Sender	Yes	No	No	No
31	Allow individual users to show/hide various columns	Yes	No	Yes	No
32	Message Creation and Addressing
33	Create New Memo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
34	Type-ahead addressing	Yes	Yes, Automatic name resolution provides this function	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
35	Support File Attachments	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
36	View file attachments from within message	Yes	No, third party products are available for this	Yes	Yes
37	Spell checking	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
38	Alternate Name Support	Yes	Yes	No	No
39	Sametime Integration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
40	Perform Name & Address Book lookup	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
41	Display contacts sorted by Organizational Unit	Yes	Yes	No	No
42	Perform Integrated Address Book lookup when sending a message	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
43	Name lookups to LDAP directories	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
44	Personal Contacts Address Book	Yes	Yes	No	No
45	Delivery Options (Importance, Delivery priority, delivery report)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
46	Forward message	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
47	Save Message Draft	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
48	Create a Serial Route Memo	Yes	Yes (New in 6.5.3)	No	No
49	Forward web pages and documents from any Notes application	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
50	Forward document as bookmark link message	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
51	Copy Into - convert item to Task, Calendar Entry or New Memo	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
52	Return Receipt	Yes	Yes	No	No
53	Prevent Copying	Yes	No	No	No
54	Apply Mood Stamps to messages	Yes	No	No	No
55	Create/use stationery	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
56	Choose a Letterhead	Yes	No	No	No
57	Create a message containing a signature file	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
58	Type-ahead within "Move to Folder" dialog	Yes	No	No	No
59	Specify outbound message with a "reply by" date	Yes	No	No	No
60	Specify message expiration date	Yes	No	No	No
61	Utilize Plain Text or Rich Text editor	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
62	Internet Message format	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
63	Viewing and Responding to Message items
64	Support for Read/Unread marks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
65	Navigate to next document without returning to view	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
66	Delete current document and navigate to next document without returning to view	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	Yes	Yes
67	Perform mail file delegation	Yes	Yes	No	No
68	Reply w/ history	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
69	Reply to memo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
70	Reply to All	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
71	Reply without Attachments	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
72	View Rich text within a message	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
73	Support for Doc Links, View Links, and Database Links	Yes	Yes	Some	No
74	View tables within messages	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
75	Create tables within messages	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
76	Resend documents from within a delivery failure	Yes	Yes	No	No
77	View sections	Yes	Yes	Some	No
78	Action Bar	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
79	Add Sender of message to Personal Contacts List	Yes	Yes	No	No
80	Modify/View the file's ACL from client	Yes	No	No	No
81	Display of Importance/Type icons in Views	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
82	Read encrypted mail and verify signature of signed mail	Yes	Yes	No	No
83	Verify signature of signed mail	Yes	Yes	No	No
84	Next/previous navigation within an open mail message	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
85	Preference setting for new mail on top/botton	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
86	Automatically checking for new messages	Yes	Yes	No	No
87	Follow Up flags	Yes	Yes	No	No
88	Column Sort in general	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
89	Sort by subject	Yes (New in 7.0)	Yes (New in 7.0)	Yes (New in 7.0)	No
90	Display mail thread for current message	Yes	Yes	No	No
91	Light weight view navigation for low bandwidth connections	N/A	Yes (New in 7.0)	N/A	N/A
92	Advanced Editing features in Rich Text field
93	Left, Right & Center, indent, outdent Text justification	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
94	Tables - Simple tables, not all complex.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
95	View Sections	Yes	Yes	Some	N/A
96	Support for embedded OLE objects	Yes	No	No	No
97	Java applet support	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
98	Page break	Yes	Yes	No	No
99	Horizontal line	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
100	Hotspots	Yes	No	No	No
101	Insert image resources	Yes	Yes	No	No
102	Create Sections	Yes	No	No	No
103	Ability to switch language dictionaries for spell checking	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
104	Support for both Bullets and Number lists	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
105	Undo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
106	User Preferences
107	New mail notification	Yes	Yes	No	No
108	Default Mail Send/Save setting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
109	Ability to archive mail and C&S documents	Yes	Yes	No	No
110	Lookup across multiple Address Books	Yes	Yes	Some (Corporate)	Some (Corporate)
111	Automatically create a reply message by clicking on the From field	No	Yes	No	No
112	Security
113	Send signed and/or encrypted mail	Yes	Yes	No	No
114	S/MIME	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
115	Read encrypted mail	Yes	Yes	No	No
116	Field, form, view, document, section level security	Yes	No	No	No
117	User roles	Yes	No	No	No
118	Local Encryption of Mail database	Yes	Yes	No	No
119	Other Features
120	Control of Database properties/design (refresh, replace, etc)	Yes	No	N/A	N/A
121	Support for alternate editors for mail messages	Yes	No	No	No
122	Built-in news reader, POP mail, IMAP mail	Yes	No	Yes (no news reader)	Yes (no news reader)
123	Support for Notes/Domino database subscriptions	Yes	No	No	No
124	Extended Search (w/in databases, attachments, messages,etc)control of search - refinement of search with form, etc.	Yes	No	No	No
125	Drag and drop documents between frames	Yes	Yes	N/A	N/A
126	User can change their own password from client	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
127	Support for mail rules	Yes	Yes	No	No
128	Integrated Instant Messaging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
129	Usage Indicator (Quota)	No	Yes (New in 7.0)	Yes	No
130	Out Of Office	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
131	Ability to launch External Client	N/A	No	Yes	No
132	Auto discover user configuration	N/A	Yes	Yes	No
133	Quick Find	Yes	Yes	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
134	Support setting as default mail client on Win32 system	Yes	Yes	No	No
135	Send current document from Microsoft Office applications	Yes	Yes	No	No

Calendar

	A	B	C	D	E
1
2	Table 2: Calendar
3	Feature	Lotus Notes Client	Lotus Domino Web Access	Common PIM Portlets - Lotus Domino	Common PIM Portlets - Microsoft Exchange
4	Views
5	From the Action bar, open Calendar into specific view ( ie. 1-day, 1 week, 1-month, etc)	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
6	Calendar Views	1day, 2 day, 5 day, 1 week, 2 week, 1 month	1 day, 2 day, 5 day, 1 week, 2 week, 1 month, 1 year	2 day, 1 week, 2 week, 1 month, 1 day-(Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal)	2 day, 1 week, 2 week,1 month, 1 day-(Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal)
7	Summarized calendar views	Yes	Yes	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
8	Display unprocessed invites in calendar	Yes	Yes	No	No
9	Unaccepted meetings displayed within calendar	No	Yes	No	No
10	Meeting view	Yes	Yes	No	No
11	Calendar Print Preview	No	Yes	Some (Event & HTML view print)	Some (Event & HTML view print)
12	Inline calendar view editing	Yes	Yes	No	No
13	Work / non-work hour differentiation	Yes	Yes	Planned for future release of WebSphere Portal	No
14	Ability for Chairperson to see status of invitees from the view level	Yes	Yes	No	No
15	Calendar Entries and Group Scheduling
16	Double-click within the calendar view to create an entry	Yes	Yes	No	No
17	Create Appointment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
18	Create All Day Event	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
19	Create Reminder	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
20	Create Anniversary	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
21	Create Meeting Invitation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
22	Save calendar entry as draft	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
23	Forward a calendar entry	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
24	Create rich text in detailed description field	Yes	Yes	No	No
25	Automatic date (calendar picture) and time selector controls	Yes	Yes	No	No
26	Centrally managed rooms & resources	Yes	Yes	No	No
27	Create repeating entries	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
28	Add alarms to entries	Yes	Yes	No	No
29	Attach a file to invitation forms	Yes	Yes	No	No
30	Pencil in a meeting / tentatively schedule	Yes	Yes	No	No
31	Mark an entry private/"not for public viewing"	Yes	Yes	No	No
32	Delivery options on calendar entries	Yes	Yes	No	No
33	Address lookup for inviting people	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
34	Check freetime availability for invitees	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	No
35	Support for counter-proposal	Yes	Yes	No	No
36	Freetime search within a counter-proposal	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
37	Respond with comments within a counter-proposal	Yes	Yes	No	No
38	Edit calendar entries	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
39	Send a reschedule notice	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
40	Add additional invitees after invitation is sent	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
41	Send "broadcast" invitation (no RSVPs/responses)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
42	Send meeting confirmation	Yes	Yes	No	No
43	Display invitee responses in invitation	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
44	Accept invitation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
45	Decline invitation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
46	Counter propose an alternative time	Yes	Yes	No	No
47	Accept/decline with comments	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
48	Delegate an invitation	Yes	Yes	No	No
49	Check calendar from invitation page	Yes	Yes	No	No
50	Create and maintain group calendar	Yes	Yes	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	No
51	Create meeting invitation from group calendar view populating group members in invitation	No	Yes	Planned for upcoming release of WebSphere Portal	No
52	Accept counter proposal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
53	Support for meetings spanning midnight	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
54	C&S entry support for online Sametime meetings	Yes	Yes	No	No
55	Ability to specify time zones in C&S entries	Yes	Yes	No	No
56	Users in different time zones can share the same server and still see meeting times with respect to their own zone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
57	Generate PDF calendar printouts	No	Yes	No	No
58	Drag and drop to reschedule a calendar entry	Yes	Yes	No	No
59	Display unprocessed meeting notices within calendar	No	Yes	No	No
60	Import corporate holidays	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
61	User Preferences
62	Set global default appointment duration	Yes	Yes	No	No
63	Set global default calendar entry type	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
64	Option to make freetime available to only certain users	Yes	Yes	No	No
65	Options to set allowable freetime	Yes	Yes	No	No
66	Enable conflict checking for calendar entries	Yes	Yes	No	No
67	Allow another user to manage Calendar without allowing access to email	Yes	Yes	No	No
68	Mark default calendar entry as 'not for public viewing'	Yes	Yes	No	No
69	Autoprocessing of Calendar information
70	Option to remove invitations from Inbox after processing	Yes	Yes	No	No
71	Ability to autoprocess invitations	Yes	Yes	No	No

To Do

	A	B	C	D
1
2	Table 3: To Do's
3	Feature	Lotus Notes Client	Lotus Domino Web Access	Common PIM Portlets
4	To Do's
5	To Do's follow day-to-day in calendar view	Yes	Yes
6	Display To Do in Calendar View	Yes	Yes
7	Delegate a To Do to another person	Yes	Yes
8	Create To Do's (With Start & End Dates)	Yes	Yes
9	Categorize new To Do entries	Yes	Yes
10	Alarm notification on To Do's	Yes	Yes
11	Mark To Do's complete or uncompleted	Yes	Yes
12	Create Group To Do's	Yes	Yes
13	Ability to set time on To Do's	Yes	Yes
14	Display To Do's in Gantt chart format	No	Yes
15	Priorities for To Do's (High, Medium, & Low)	Yes	Yes
16	Create personal To Do's	Yes	Yes
17	Owner and Participant actions	Yes	Yes
18	Create mail message or meeting invitation while selecting a contact and automatically populate email address of contact in message/invitation	No	Yes
19	Forward a to do item	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)

Personal Contac

	A	B	C	D
1
2	Table 4: Personal Contacts
3
4	Feature	Lotus Notes Client	Lotus Domino Web Access	Common PIM Portlets
5	Personal Contacts
6	Sort contacts by Last Name, Company, Email, Address etc	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
7	Add users in Domino Directory to Personal contact list	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
8	Select multiple contacts and send message	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
9	Select multiple contacts and schedule a meeting	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
10	Business Card Summary view	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
11	Categorization of contacts	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
12	Automatically add email sender to Personal contact list	Yes	Yes	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal
13	Forward a contact	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	Planned for maintenance update to upcoming release of WebSphere Portal

Attachment & Misc.

	A	B	C	D
1
2	Table 5: Attachments/Miscellaneous
3	Feature	Lotus Notes Client	Lotus Domino Web Access	Common PIM Portlets
4	Unlimited Attachments	Yes	Yes	Yes
5	Drag and drop attachments from desktop/file system	Yes	Yes	No
6	Ability to rename attachments on download	Yes	Yes	No
7	Miscellaneous
8	Browser Support	N/A	6.5.x = Win32 Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher Linux / Mozilla 1.3.1+ 7.0x= IE 6.0+ (Win32), Mozilla 1.7x (Linux), FireFox 1.0.x (Linux & Win32) Upcoming maintenance release to 7.0 code stream= Plan to add support for Mac clients w/ FireFox	Win32 = IE 5.5, IE 6.0 & FireFox 1.0.x; Linux = Mozilla 1.4 & FireFox 1.0.x
9	Advanced Search (contextual by text, author, or date)	Yes	Yes	No
10	Journal integrated in mail file	No	Yes	No
11	Contacts integrated in mail file	No	Yes	No
12	Ability to snooze alarms across multiple sessions / logins	No	Yes	No
13	Context sensitive help	Yes	Yes	Yes
14	Multilingual template support	Yes	Yes	Yes
15	Support for all Domino server platforms	Yes	Yes
16	Offline support for Messaging, PIM and Collaborative Applications	Yes	Messaging, PIM (same DOLS code used for apps)	No
17	Welcome Page Support	Yes	Yes	No
18	Mail view filter for unread messages	No	Yes	No
19	Mail view filter for high priority messages	No	Yes	No
20	Mail view filter for last 10 messages	No	Yes	No
21	Schedule replication	Yes	Yes (New in 7.0)	No
22	Secure Logoff	Yes	Yes	No
23	Cache Cleaning	N/A	Yes (with more enhancements in 7.0)	No
24	Auto Save	Yes (New in 7.0)	No	No
25	Message Disclaimers	No	Yes	No
26	Archiving	Yes	Yes	No