IBM just now released IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1

You can download the new version from the passport advantage website.

8.5.1 Included the following improvements:

• XPages are now available in the Lotus Notes Client
• Domino Designer has now a new LotusScript Java Editor
• SPNEGO can be used for authentification via web
• Traveler supports not the iPhone
• Over 1.000 fixes included

Click here to read the System requirements for Lotus Domino 8.5.1

To Install IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 select from the following downloads:

32-bit Domino Server

64-bit Domino server

128-bit Domino server

Click here to read the System requirements for Lotus Notes 8.5.1

To Install IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 select from the following downloads:

IBM will cease support for IBM Lotus Notes, Domino and Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI) 7.x products at the end of April 2011.

Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Program    VRM      Withdrawal Program release name
number              from
                    support
                    date
 
5724-E62   7.0.1    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
5724-E62   7.0.3    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
5724-E62   7.0.4    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
5724-E62   7.0.0    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
5724-E62   7.0.2    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
5724-L76   7.0.3    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator
5724-L76   7.0.2    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator
5724-L76   7.0.4    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator
5724-L76   7.0.1    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator
5724-L76   7.0.0    04/30/11   IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator

Replacement products

With Lotus Notes® V8.5 and Domino® V8.5 in market for 7 months, customers will have taken advantage of the easy upgrade and many improvements of V8.5 and subsequent upgrades. For more information on the latest release of Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5, refer to Software Announcement ZP09-0037, dated January 06, 2009. You can also upgrade to Lotus Enterprise Integrator V8.5 which provides enhanced usability, performance, and improved real time integration when compared to V7.x, for more information on Lotus Enterprise Integrator V8.5, refer to Software Announcement ZP09-0037, dated January 06, 2009.

Posted on Ed Brills Blog:

It's finally here -- today is announcement day for Notes/Domino 8.5.1!  The channel announcement is live, the press release will be issued this morning, press coverage is trickling in, and the LotusUserGroup.org webcast on Notes/Domino 8.5.1 is happening at Noon US EDT.  Oh, and the channel announcement spills the beans -- the electronic general availability for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 will be Monday, October 12. Notes/Domino 8.5.1 is more than a maintenance release.  For sure, a ton of quality work went into this release -- four times the number of fixes of a "normal" maintenance release.  There are also a number of new features in this release -- which I've covered in recent presentations such as at IAmLUG, and Mary Beth and team have been covering on the Notes Design Blog.

Part 1: Free Domino Designer

The biggest part of the news is that as of Notes/Domino 8.5.1 eGA -- coming in just a few days -- Lotus Domino Designer will now be available at no charge.  That's right!  Free!  My friends at IBM developerWorks Lotus will have some new web pages up later today featuring how to get, learn, and use Domino Designer 8.5.1.

Lotus knows how to win 'em....

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank has chosen to standardize on IBM Corp.'s Lotus collaboration software, IBM said Tuesday, displacing Microsoft Corp.'s rival SharePoint-based platform.

U.S. Bank plans to roll out the Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections social Web platform for corporations. Quickr and Connections provide a file-sharing repository allowing employees to create profiles, wikis and blogs.

U.S. Bank is also standardizing on the latest Lotus Notes 8.5 client for all 58,000 employees, as well as the Lotus Sametime messaging app, Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus Software, told Computerworld. "The focus is for them to get everything migrated by 2010," he said. ...

Citing large customers such as HSBC, Colgate-Palmolive, Teach for America and others that are deploying the latest Web 2.0 components of the Lotus platform, Picciano says IBM is making a successful counterattack.

"We are displacing Exchange, displacing Outlook," Picciano said. "Despite what the people up in Redmond might say, we are taking share."

Link: Computerworld: U.S. Bank picks IBM's Lotus platform over Microsoft's SharePoint

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