IBM updates email, server apps
p2p news / p2pnet:- A major upgrade to IBM`s flagship Lotus Notes and Domino7 includes more than 100 new features that will allow users to manage an increasing volume of information and work more efficiently, promises the company.
New visual indicators can help users organize and manage their in-box by highlighting high priority messages, as well as differentiating between group emails and messages targeted for specific users, it says, and, New memory functions will automatically save and return to open documents and applications upon shut down and restart, which will give users additional mobility without worrying about losing data or hindering productivity.
And instant messaging and presence technology, already integrated in the Lotus Notes client, has been expanded across the platform, including emails and calendar items, facilitating productivity and responsiveness by instantly connecting users with experts and key contacts.
Lotus Domino 7 also includes new tools for application developers and IBM has upgraded the toolset to include a new web services design element lets developers use Lotus Domino as a web services host, says IBM.
Additionally, Lotus Notes and Domino 7 provides developers with the option of using either traditional NSF storage features or IBM DB2 as the foundation for new and existing applications. This new capability gives developers the option of leveraging open-standard SQL (Structured Query Language) and choosing the technology that best fits their skills and business needs.
New IT admin tools have also been added.
Through internal benchmarking, IBM projects that this release will allow many customers to run up to 50 percent more users per server, requiring up to 25 percent less CPU capacity for the same workload, it says.
IBM Lotus Domino server software starts at an SRP of $1,145 per CPU, while IBM Lotus Notes software starts at SRP $101 per client. IBM Lotus Domino Web Access 7, IBM’s Web-based messaging client, starts at SRP of $70 per client.
Lotus Domino 7 is currently available for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003; IBM iSeries, zSeries (z/OS and Linux), AIX 5.2 or 5.3; Sun Solaris 9; and Linux (x86) — SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 or 9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and Sun Solaris 10 support will be available within 30 days.
Lotus Notes 7 is available for Windows 2000 and XP. Support for the Mac OS is planned for future release of Lotus Notes. Lotus Domino Web Access 7 is available on Microsoft Internet Explorer (Win32), Mozilla 1.7x (Linux) and Firefox 1.0.x (Win32 & Linux).
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IBM – IBM Delivers Lotus Notes and Domino 7, September 9, 2005
