IBM has announced that the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus
Domino 8 public beta will start next month.
This is the final beta phase before the products’ target
shipping date of mid-2007.
Version 8 of the Lotus Notes e-mail client and Domino e-mail
server will deliver standards-based document editors, a Real Simple
Syndication (RSS) editor and composite application support.
Lotus Notes 8 customers can also easily link to other Lotus
portfolio components such as social, collaborative content
management, and unified communications software.
News of the beta came at this week’s annual
Lotusphere user conference in Orlando, where
the firm also announced the launch of its first social
networking software for enterprises, mimicking the consumer
offerings from the likes of MySpace and Facebook.
Email enhancements in Notes will increase productivity and avoid
information overload, said IBM.
Features include “Recent Contacts” and “Message Recall.” With
Recent Contacts, users will get a one-click, dashboard view of
recently sent emails and chats to quickly locate a key contact.
The Message Recall feature will let users quickly recall an
email message after it has been sent by mistake, saving a user from
a potential conflict or miscommunication situation.
In Notes 8, customers will also be able to use productivity
editors that support the Open Document Format (ODF) at no
additional cost, giving them access to crucial office tools without
the cost of a separate license.
With IBM Productivity Editors users can create, edit, and save a
variety of documents in ODF format, including word processing,
spreadsheet and presentation documents.
The productivity editors also allow a user to import and export
supported file formats used by Microsoft Office and Open Office
file formats, edit those files and save them in either the original
format or as ODF documents.
IBM updates Notes for the Mac
Comment on this article:
computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk