Lotus 8

iPhone & Lotus Notes - What do we do now

Yesterday Apple released a new version of the iPhone and somewhere in the mix old Steve Jobs, who looks sick, left out talking about IBM and Lotus iNotes for the iPhone.

There is a good bit of chatter on Ed Brill’s blog about it and people are concerned.  Nathan Freeman weights in on the SDK problem.

Lotus 8.5 Beta is out for everyone to test and tinker

I am excited about the new 8.5 client and other Lotus stuff that is out today. While 8.0.1 is nice, it still has some issues. The Linux and Mac Lotus Notes Clients are out as well so this should be one of those “steps in the right direction” things.

Link to the Lotus 8.5 Beta Download page 

Two things from IBM today. UC² and Lotus Symphony

While I don’t see anyone covering this, I figured I would so that IBM gets some fair play on the old blogs.

IBM has launched a pretty funny little movie about UC² that is about Unified Communications. Using Sametime and other Lotus based products to collaborate. I can assure you Lotus does this much better than any Microsoft product.

Lotus Symphony is being shrugged off as another Lotus product meant to deliver nothing and complicate the Lotus offering. I have found since I have started using it to be neither of the two. Lotus Symphony gives you an office product in your Lotus Notes 8 client. It’s well done and can only get better over time. If your a Word or Excel power user I think it’s going to take time before it’s that fancy but then again Excel didn’t get there overnight either. I can remember when people were complaining about Excel not being as full featured as Lotus 1-2-3? Link to article

Lotus Notes 8.0.1 is uploaded to Passport Advantage - ME FIRST

I just checked Passport Advantage and 8.0.1 is there and ready for the download. I think this is super! It’s kind of there but not really so I think it should be up there soon. Maybe they are uploading them in the back groud and we Lotus Nuts just can’t get at them yet? Either way there are going to be there sometime today and there is going to be a mad rush to get them.

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 coming 20th of Feb

According to Ed Brill, Lotus 8.0.1 in English is coming tomorrow. I am looking forward to it and so should all of you. Other languages to follow.