Lotus Symphony

IBM Growth in Emerging Markets Fuels Lotus Momentum - Ed Brill - IBM - Lotus

Link to Marketwire - IBM Growth in Emerging Markets Fuels Lotus Momentum

Ed Brill is blogging about the IBM/Lotus growth as well. I think as Lotus people we have all known for years that this was going on and it was only a matter of time before the rest of the world would catch up. This is movment in the proper direction. Lotus is dead, long live Lotus!

I think this is key and should have Microsoft running around scared - “Lotus Symphony has been downloaded by over 1.3 million individuals and businesses”

Lotus Notes 8 is a one stop shop for all things in the modern office. You don’t need anything else on your desktop/laptop anymore.

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