Lotus Notes 8 due for Friday release

IBM plans to release the next version of its Lotus Notes platform and Domino applications on Friday.

The release will be by electronic means only, with the physical distribution and documentation slated for September 21.

The release, Lotus Notes and Domino 8, is based on the Eclipse open-source software framework and is built around a new platform called Expeditor. Expeditor enables developers to create Eclipse-based code for use within the client that can function on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

In its prerelease notes, IBM says version 8 will "offer a modern Web-like look and feel," with a sidebar that displays contacts, the day at a glance, RSS and Atom feeds. Other features include the ability to export documents to PDF, multidirectory integration enhancements, mail recall and new cluster replication technology.

The standard word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications are included, which all support the OpenDocument format plus IBM's SmartSuite. Within the applications, there will be in-line spell-checking and numerous changes to mail, calendar and contact management, according to IBM.

Richard Thurston of ZDNet UK reported from London.

[Commander_Spock]

"The standard word-processing, spreadsheet...

... and presentation applications are included, which all support the OpenDocument format plus IBM's SmartSuite..." The Way To Go IBM - Show them how to Innovate, Collaborate and Dominate with the "punches". Wow!

[Commander_Spock]

Come on folks, it is time to strike up the bands...

... and start doing the Cha Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Merengue....

Spread the good news folks: "Lotus Notes 8 due for Friday release" The thing about this article though is -- it did not say which language versions of Lotus Notes 8.0 will be available on Friday; and, if not, when will the other languages will be released!

[smilin:)]

Finally a competitor for Office 2003

Finally a worthy competitor to Office 2003.

Too bad it's not 2003 anymore :/

[Maclover1]

Let me guess

Spock...you are a fan of Lotus Notes?:) I bet us 3 will be the only posters.

I only read this because I thought notes was dead. Everywhere I have worked has ditched it in the last 5 years.

[Vegaman_Dan]

And the tens of people who use it rejoice!

I haven't seen an installation of Notes on a system in years. It's either MS Office or OpenOffice on any business systems these days.

I didn't know it was even still in production.

It's nice to see it hasn't disappeared entirely. I don't see it replacing Open Office or MS Office any time soon, but it's still nice to see it out there.

[Commander_Spock]

"Baruch College's (Continuing Ed) Class of 1994 Teacher...

... helped prepared the power in the "sea-change" waves that coming in Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet To Rock The World - Again! And, that's just it. So, watch out "Google Spreadsheets" you are about to be GOOGLED too. Wow!

[Commander_Spock]

HI FOLKS, IT IS PARTY TIME.

LOTUS NOTES AND DOMINO 8.0 ARE HERE!

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/productivitytools

"IBM® Lotus Notes® 8 software includes a set of office productivity tools which support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard. These productivity tools include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation capabilities. Lotus Notes users will be able to create, manage, edit, and import documents in ODF. The IBM productivity tools can also import and edit Microsoft® Office documents and export those documents to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions.

Open standards means you don?t need to worry about end of life uncertainties or expensive, ongoing software licensing and royalty fees -- providing you the opportunity to save money and reduce your Total Cost of Ownership."

ALL HANDS IN THE AIR AND SHAKE THAT BODY!

CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM LOTUS!