IBM Ships Lotus Notes and Domino 8

IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 are now generally available. Research and insight gained from IBM R&D Laboratories and businesses worldwide indicate overall collaboration has superceded email as the key characteristic of their desktop experience. Consequently, 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 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 is built on the programming model of Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1, which is based on eclipse.org open standards. Lotus Expeditor 6.1.1,enables the construction and deployment of enterprise mashups, also known as composite applications. With the inclusion of the Lotus Expeditor programming model, developers can integrate these same Composite Application capabilities into the Notes user experience. The Lotus Expeditor platform is also separately licenseable. 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. http://www.ibm.com/lotus/