Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software continues IBM's commitment to forward and backward compatibility for applications. This strategy not only helps protect the investment in technologies you may already have in place, but also eliminates the need to rewrite Lotus platform-based applications as new releases become available. In other words, the solutions you develop today will still work tomorrow. By avoiding a "rip-and-replace" architectural migration path, you can gradually take advantage of new features, thereby reducing the potential impact on your infrastructure. And multi-platform support can help protect your investments in hardware and software as well as applications.