>Thanks Larry
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>I'll search out for your messages now and I think I will go via OLE stuff. To be honest I'm not a huge Lotus user myself so I've just now gone out and bought Notes so that I can try it properly. (For some reason I thought Notes was like thousands of dollars, instead I got it for less than 100) Its my customers who use it you see and I just want to be compatible with it for some work I'm doing.
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>I hope its easily distributable via OLE as I find it very very hard to find any documentation or help from any Lotus source on this.
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>Anyway cheers
>

Mike,
You may be a little off on the costs.

The Notes Client is the least expensive part of the Notes suite. This package gives you the ability to connect to a Notes server, read/write e-mail and run Notes applications. This runs about $25.

Domino Designer gives you the ability to create Notes applications. You can create forms, agents, views, etc. It is the development environment for Domino/Notes. This runs about $450.

Domino Server comes in three flavors: Mail, Application and Enterprise. To handle static web-based applications and e-mail, you only need the Mail server. Application server adds a lot of pre-fab templates and the like for e-commerce and work-flow applications on the web. Enterprise adds clustering, load-balancing and all the performance enhancments you need in a large enterprise environment.

Mail Server - $680
Application Server - $1290
Enterprise Server - $6100 (only from http://www-4.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/)

All prices were found at www.provantage.comunless otherwise stated.

HTH.