Notes 8.5 For Mac OS X
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Yesterday at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, California, IBM announced the release of Lotus Notes & Domino version 8.5 and why do it at MacWorld, well because this release is the first in the Notes 8 codestream to include a client built specifically for Mac OS X. With the press watching Apple's last appearance at MacWorld this release announcement has also been in the limelight and was reported across a wide variety of news outlets and the blogs of the apple faithful.
Some of the Apple faithful are also part of the Lotus faithful and, like myself, the first component of the Lotus 8.5 released that was downloaded and installed was the new client for Mac OS X. The installation process was quick and easy and the initial setup appears in exactly the same way as all the past setups for the MS Windows client, in fact you will be hard pressed to find any major differences between the MS Windows and Mac OS X version of the client. The design and development teams at IBM have done an excellent job at ensuring a familiar interface across all the platforms that Notes & Domino 8.5 supports which also includes clients for RedHat Linux and OpenSuse Linux as well as the Mac OS X and MS Windows platforms.
Of course different platforms will have their slight differences and one such difference on the Mac OS X platform is the integration of Lotus Notes into Spotlight. When it is enabled all local databases can be setup to be included in Spotlight searches. If you are a user of Spotlight to find information on your computer then you will love this feature. You can turn it on under the Action -> Desktop Search menu option.
After using the previous two public beta releases of the Lotus Notes 8.5 client for the Mac, I can certainly say that this final gold release really is worth the upgrade from the last official Lotus Notes client on the Mac which was Notes 7.0.3. Version 8.5 is snappier, looks great and really brings the entire IBM Lotus portfolio to a greater visibility within any enterprise that uses Apple computers.
Also announced at MacWorld Expo was the impending release of IBM Lotus Symphony V1.2.1 for the Mac OS X. Lotus Symphony is a FREE eclipse based version of OpenOffice that uses the same interface as the Notes 8.5 client. This release is expected to be downloadable towards the end of January, probably during Lotusphere, IBM's own conference for their followers, the Lotus faithful. You'll see me there, probably sitting in the front row with my Macbook Air on my lap taking notes.
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Yesterday at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, California, IBM announced the release of Lotus Notes & Domino version 8.5 and why do it at MacWorld, well because this release is the first in the Notes 8 codestream to include a client built specifically for Mac OS X. With the press watching Apple's last appearance at MacWorld this release announcement has also been in the limelight and was reported across a wide variety of news outlets and the blogs of the apple faithful.
Some of the Apple faithful are also part of the Lotus faithful and, like myself, the first component of the Lotus 8.5 released that was downloaded and installed was the new client for Mac OS X. The installation process was quick and easy and the initial setup appears in exactly the same way as all the past setups for the MS Windows client, in fact you will be hard pressed to find any major differences between the MS Windows and Mac OS X version of the client. The design and development teams at IBM have done an excellent job at ensuring a familiar interface across all the platforms that Notes & Domino 8.5 supports which also includes clients for RedHat Linux and OpenSuse Linux as well as the Mac OS X and MS Windows platforms.
Of course different platforms will have their slight differences and one such difference on the Mac OS X platform is the integration of Lotus Notes into Spotlight. When it is enabled all local databases can be setup to be included in Spotlight searches. If you are a user of Spotlight to find information on your computer then you will love this feature. You can turn it on under the Action -> Desktop Search menu option.
After using the previous two public beta releases of the Lotus Notes 8.5 client for the Mac, I can certainly say that this final gold release really is worth the upgrade from the last official Lotus Notes client on the Mac which was Notes 7.0.3. Version 8.5 is snappier, looks great and really brings the entire IBM Lotus portfolio to a greater visibility within any enterprise that uses Apple computers.
Also announced at MacWorld Expo was the impending release of IBM Lotus Symphony V1.2.1 for the Mac OS X. Lotus Symphony is a FREE eclipse based version of OpenOffice that uses the same interface as the Notes 8.5 client. This release is expected to be downloadable towards the end of January, probably during Lotusphere, IBM's own conference for their followers, the Lotus faithful. You'll see me there, probably sitting in the front row with my Macbook Air on my lap taking notes.
