<p>With the Lotus brand dropped, IBM is hoping its partner network can help get the word out about newly-released Notes 9 and Domino 91/29/2013 4:32:00 PMBy: Brian Jackson</p><p>IBM's channel partner community will play an important part in rolling out the first major version release to Notes and Domino in five years, according to company executives.</p><p>IBM Notes 9 and Domino 9 are currently in beta and will be released to market in March, IBM Corp. announced yesterday at its IBM Connect conference in Orlando. This conference was formerly Lotus Sphere, an event dedicated to the partner community and serving its technical needs. Now it's more focused on marketing products to customers, but the Lotus line of products are still important to IBM.</p><p>IBM quietly kills Lotus brand</p><p><a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=69814">Keep reading...</a></p>