IBM launches Lotus Notes, Domino 8 beta

IBM on Thursday launched a public beta of its Lotus Notes and Domino 8 e-mail and collaboration software. The public beta is designed to offer such features as a choice in office productivity tools and the ability to group related e-mail messages together based on conversation threads, under Lotus Notes 8.

IBM expects its Lotus Notes and Domino 8 program to be available in the middle of this year.

[smilin:)]

Isn't that cute!

Outlook 2003 you better look out! Oh wait...

[Commander_Spock]

Should This App. be Named Lotus Notes...

... or should it not be called "the MICROSOFT OFFICE and GOOGLE SPREADSHEETS KILLER"! Keep telling ya all that "ELEPHANTS" can really dance and the amazing thing is that this particular ELEPHANT already dances to the ISO's approved Open Document Format Standards (ODF) music!

[frankwick]

Notes was waaaaay ahead of its time.

The concept of Notes was AMAZING. The problem is that not many people understood Notes. Most just saw it as an email system and there were MANY email systems available. Too bad that it was those small minded customers who made many of the business decisions which ultimately forged the way many IT systems look today. After all, software vendors make software to sell to these people.

It's interesting to look back at MS and how many times they released Notes/Domino competitors and failed to deliver. Don't get me wrong, I think Exchange (2003 and newer) is a superb email system, but in terms of functionality, MS is just now (with the help of Sharepoint) catching up with Domino.

[barker4271]

Great Product - Bad Marketing

The domino platform is simply awesome...the only downside is that it does too many things so it is tough to nail down...the only thing that seemed to stick was its "EMAIL" client capability. Combine that with IBM's lousy marketing (take the lousy reference here to mean "SPECTACULARLY INCOMPETENT"), and presto! One crummy reputation, served fresh daily.