Lotus News

Jun 22 2008   2:48AM GMT

New Site is coming

Posted by: David Vasta
David on System i, i for business, i on Power, IBM i, AIX on Power, Domino on System i, i, Linux in System i, System i, Apple, SUN, Linux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Lotus, Linux on POWER, Lotus News, OpenSolaris, POWER Systems

I am working on a new site, so between work, this site, writting for Search400 (which I hope they change the name of soon) and family, I have also found little time to start building a new site that will in the end be a hub for all things POWER based. I have to bring the community together under one web site.

So with that said, I am going to need people to provide content for the site. I need really dedicated insane people to help build the community from all parts of this equation. IBM i, AIX, Linux on Power, and POWER hardware. We need to come together in a big way and share. I am also going to cover Lotus, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, OpenSuSE, FreeBSD and other things that interest me that I think are changing the way IT does IT.

Please send me an email and I will get you in on the fun, and if you know Joomla that would be great too…I am no expert on that CMS kit.

May 30 2008   3:04PM GMT

Lotus 8.5 Beta is out for everyone to test and tinker

Posted by: David Vasta
Ubuntu, Lotus Domino, Lotus, Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Symphony, Lotus 8, Lotus News, Redhat

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 

Mar 10 2008   5:30PM GMT

Two things from IBM today. UC² and Lotus Symphony

Posted by: David Vasta
IBM News, Open source, Lotus, Lotus 8, Lotus News, Lotus Symphony, Lotus Sametime

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

Feb 20 2008   6:59AM GMT

Lotus Notes 8.0.1 is uploaded to Passport Advantage - ME FIRST

Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus 8, Lotus News

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.

Feb 20 2008   2:50AM GMT

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 coming 20th of Feb

Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus News, Lotus 8, Domino on System i, AS/400, System i

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.