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While Paul Mooney is running a little contest to determine the date of Microsoft's Annual pre-Lotusphere Spoiler, you can't help but be impressed by IBM's initial salvo. Having a presence at Macworld while announcing and releasing Notes/Domino 8.5 has really brought out the coverage. "Brilliant" comes to mind.
My simple Google News search brought up more than 50 news articles in less than a day. Some excerpts:
From Clint Boulton at eWeek:
CNNMoney.com reported:
Vnunet.com, in addition to reporting on the Mac release, also provided its readers with some of the server-side advancements in the R8.5 release:
I, for one, am impressed. Not only did IBM release a new version of Notes/Domino, but to do it at Macworld resulted in a plethora of coverage. And that is just what see. What about all of the Macworld attendees that get exposed to Lotus Notes/Domino. Ed Brill made an excellent observation (emphasis, mine):
If your organization has people at Macworld, it might be a good time to find out what they thought of the new release and leverage that excitement. As I recall, some people in the "Yellow Bubble" were wondering what IBM was doing to court the end-users. Here is an excellent example. Now you, the organization's Lotus Notes/Domino experts, need to go and build on it.
What a way to lead up to Lotusphere!
Link: eWeek: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 for Apple Mac OS X Supports Google, Yahoo Calendars
Link: CNNMoney: IBM Lotus Delivers New "Social" Notes and Free Symphony Software for Macs
Link: vnunet.com: IBM unveils Lotus Notes 8.5
Link: Ed Brill: Macworld: "Why Are You Here?"
Technorati tag: Lotus Notes Lotus Domino
My simple Google News search brought up more than 50 news articles in less than a day. Some excerpts:
From Clint Boulton at eWeek:
IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X computers, boasting a user interface that lets users access Notes' full messaging and collaboration features from one screen. The new release also interoperates with Web calendar applications from Google, Yahoo and other public Web calendars, allowing users to display their Lotus Notes work calendar and their personal Internet calendar on the same screen. IBM claims this is its attempt to make Notes more social -- integrating work and play -- as it seeks to compete with Microsoft.
CNNMoney.com reported:
"Notes 8.5 has allowed our Mac users to make full use of a non-Microsoft environment with all the advances of the latest Notes functionality," said Mark Calleran, Chief Information Officer, The Salvation Army, International Headquarters.
Discovery Communications is another leading organization, among others, using Lotus Notes 8.5 for the Macintosh.
Vnunet.com, in addition to reporting on the Mac release, also provided its readers with some of the server-side advancements in the R8.5 release:
Domino Attachment Object Storage only stores an attachment once per server, regardless of how many instances exist in user inboxes.
"Prior to 8.5, if you sent an email to 20 people all of them had a local copy of the file, which meant it took up 20 times the storage space," explained Adams.
The new way of handling attachments also has the knock-on benefit of boosting overall server performance, and decreasing the time required to back up user mail accounts.
Another new feature, ID Vault, helps firms to manage user IDs by centralising them onto a server. This makes life easier for users who access email from more than one computer, as well as making it easier for admins to back up ID files.
For developers, XPages brings to Notes/Domino many of the features of modern web applications based on Ajax, according to IBM.
I, for one, am impressed. Not only did IBM release a new version of Notes/Domino, but to do it at Macworld resulted in a plethora of coverage. And that is just what see. What about all of the Macworld attendees that get exposed to Lotus Notes/Domino. Ed Brill made an excellent observation (emphasis, mine):
The other interesting effect of being at a show like Macworld Expo is that many of our conversations at the booth have been with end-users. More than once, we saw someone call back to a colleague in the office asking "what version do we run? No, it doesn't look like that!" Even the Financial Times journalist tied that into his story. If our presence at a show like Macworld Expo helps drive Notes 8.x adoption, that can only be a good thing for everyone. This is why we made sure to tie the Domino-side story of DAOS and cost savings into the press release, even though the theme was the client. IT admins, management, and CFOs will all like the message around the full Notes/Domino 8.x suite -- tremendous improvements in productivity, flexibility to use desktops of choice, a great browser-based approach for desktops and mobile devices, and significant reduction in operational costs.
If your organization has people at Macworld, it might be a good time to find out what they thought of the new release and leverage that excitement. As I recall, some people in the "Yellow Bubble" were wondering what IBM was doing to court the end-users. Here is an excellent example. Now you, the organization's Lotus Notes/Domino experts, need to go and build on it.
What a way to lead up to Lotusphere!
Link: eWeek: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 for Apple Mac OS X Supports Google, Yahoo Calendars
Link: CNNMoney: IBM Lotus Delivers New "Social" Notes and Free Symphony Software for Macs
Link: vnunet.com: IBM unveils Lotus Notes 8.5
Link: Ed Brill: Macworld: "Why Are You Here?"
Technorati tag: Lotus Notes Lotus Domino
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