IBM announced that after two years in development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world, Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 will be generally available today, Friday, August 17. IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino 8 represents the industry's first enterprise collaboration solution largely designed with input from its customers.Lotus Notes 8 is designed to transform the inbox into an integrated workspace that brings together email, calendar, instant messaging, office productivity tools and custom applications. "Some people have actually switched from Microsoft Outlook at home to Notes 8 since we showed them how, " said Marc Frasier, IT Mgr, Well Dynamics of New Zealand. "I'm pretty confident that we'll be rolling out 8.0 pretty close to launch date."
Lotus Notes 8 is much more than email, unlike competitive offerings. Lotus Notes 8 integrates work by building in instant messaging and presence awareness, office tools to create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets and infusinga business' custom applications, including HelpDesk, CRM, Sales Force, Discussion Forums, Blogs and more. Lotus Notes 8 includes the IBM Lotus productivity tools enabling users to create open standards-based versions of spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, in addition to supporting many file formats from traditional stand-alone applications. These tools are included at no additional charge with Lotus Notes & Domino 8.
Pricing
Lotus Notes 8 software starts at SRP of $101 per client. For a browser-based alternative, IBM Domino Web Access clients are $73 per user. IBM Lotus Domino server software starts at an SRP of $14.75 per value unit. Lotus Domino Express solutions for small and medium businesses, inclusive of client and server, start at an SRP of $99 per user. Volume discounts apply.
A video demonstration of some of the new features of Lotus Notes 8 is available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgRnk5VSO0
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