March 15th, 2007
IBM Announces Public Beta for Lotus Notes and Domino 8
IBM today announced that customers, partners and users can now download and try IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8, a next generation email and collaboration platform that helps users streamline daily business tasks that run across a variety of computing platforms and technology software systems.
The open beta program gives users a peek at a redesigned interface that includes new time saving features such the ability to quickly view important emails by grouping them into conversation threads, no-cost productivity editors that create open standards-based versions of spreadsheets, word processing and presentations, and search capabilities that let users extend searches beyond email and contacts to Web and file searches without leaving the inbox.
Beta code is currently available and can be downloaded at: www.ibm.com/lotus/getnd8now.
In the days immediately following availability, there have been more than 12,000 downloads of the beta client and server products for a variety of platforms, including Linux and Windows for clients and Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX and IBM System i for servers.
Wow, 12,000 downloads, BEFORE the announcement even went out to the press! If anyone (your boss!) ever questioned the power of the blogging community, I think this proves them wrong.
