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IBM ships Lotus Notes, Domino
8
ConvergenceAsia staff
28/08/2007
IBM has announced the
general availability of Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8. 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.
Lotus Notes 8 provides instant productivity through immediate access to
people, current projects or activities, and information without leaving the
inbox. Time can be saved through a new search tool that lets users
automatically extend searches beyond email and contacts to Web and hard
drive file searches. Face can be saved through the "message recall" feature
which enables users to quickly recall an email message after it has been
sent by mistake.
In addition, through the new "conversation" feature, users can view all
individual messages in their inbox or they can now view their emails grouped
together in related conversations or threads by subject.
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. The productivity tools support the
Open Document Format (ODF), allowing users to import and export supported
file formats used by Microsoft Office and save them either in the original
format or ODF.
Additionally, IBM is enabling Notes and Domino customers to add the
Activities component of Lotus Connections directly into Notes. Licensed
separately, the Activities option enables the worker to share collaborative
content such as documents, email, instant messaging and other items related
to a project into one logical unit. The Activities feature of the Lotus
Notes 8 release uses Web 2.0 technologies such as Backpack, Atom, Tagging,
REST, Ajax and JSON to deliver a lightweight, web-based collaboration
offering.
A video demonstration of some of the new features of Lotus Notes 8 is
available at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgRnk5VSO0. |
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