Nokia extends IBM Lotus email access to 80 million mobile phones

Nokia and IBM have announced IBM Lotus Notes support for a number of Nokia's S60-based mobile phones, meaning that millions of Lotus Notes users are now able to access email with their Nokia devices.  The deal is also said to represent a significant market opportunity for IBM Lotus Notes — which has 140 million licensed users — with many Nokia customers now able to purchase Lotus Notes and access its collaboration capabilities on the go.
 
With this announcement, more than 80 million people – the number of Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices shipped globally – can connect to corporate email accounts via Lotus Domino Server software, Lotus Notes Traveler, which provides real time access to email, calendar, address book, journal and to-do list data and will be available for Nokia devices in December 2008.
           
According to IBM's Institute for Business Value, this year, for the first time, more people in the world will have a mobile device than a land-line telephone. IBM predicts one billion mobile Web users by 2011 and a significant shift in the way the majority of people will interact with the Web over the next decade.
 
"This is another strong affirmation of our business mobility vision, which is to establish partnerships with the world's leading enterprise vendors. This collaboration means nearly 90 percent of business email can be mobilized with Nokia devices, without needing to purchase additional servers, middleware or licenses. With the presence, position and technology that IBM have in the corporate email market, they are an essential partner for us in enterprise," says Soren Petersen, senior vice president, Nokia. "People need to be connected to their email, information and network when they are out of the office and that has to be done conveniently and on their terms. Lotus Notes Traveler for Nokia devices is a great example of that."
 
"We are excited about IBM's growing relationship with Nokia and what this does for the build-out of the mobile Web," said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president of IBM Lotus Software.  We are literally freeing millions of people using Nokia's Symbian platform from having to rely on a desktop or laptop to access their important business communications.   Working with the market leader like Nokia is a natural fit for attaining IBM's goals of maintaining the flow of business, regardless of time, distance or location — all for no additional charge for both of our companies' current customers and a new opportunity for new customers."
 
Other IBM Lotus technologies that can be mobilized for anytime anywhere work include Lotus Sametime for instant messaging and unified communications, Lotus Connections for enterprise social networking and Lotus Quickr for social content sharing.