<p>Update Lotus Notes is no more and will henceforth be known as ... drumroll please IBM Notes.</p><p>Big Blue quietly let it be known the Lotus brand will disappear in the forthcoming version 9.0 of Notes and Domino, products that back in 1995 were so desirable it wrote a check for $US.3.52bn to acquire them.</p><p>That acquisition was literally a hold the front page event for your correspondent*, as a price tag of $US.3.52bn was all-but-unheard-of in those far-off days, when Notes was the clear leader in a product category known as "groupware".</p><p>Notes' combination of messaging and a lightweight, database-driven, application development environment made it a very tasty prospect for enterprises living the client/server dream of the mid 1990s. Users often weren't so enthralled: Notes' whopping client strained the first-generation Pentium-powered PCs of the day. But then so did almost any app.</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/19/ibm_drops_lotus_brand_from_notes_and_domino/">Keep reading...</a></p>