It’s Here! Announcing Notes/Domino 8.0.1

Posted on Feb 20, 2008 in IBM Software

Announced at Lotusphere 2008, Notes/Domino 8.0.1 in English has arrived and will be available for download on the IBM Download site (Passport Advantage). Here are some of the new and improved features from the product announcement:

• Deployment enhancements to Lotus Domino that enable administrators to free up time and focus on other areas.
• A new mode for Lotus Domino Web Access optimized for bandwidth. It addresses the needs of users who are traveling or are constrained with dial-up connections.
• Linked to other components of the Lotus portfolio including integration with IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM Lotus Connections, increased support for IBM Lotus Sametime^® 8.0 (includes Lotus Sametime Unyte).
• Greater extensibility through Lotus Notes Widgets.
• Support for Citrix Presentation Server 4.5.
• Database compression, which significantly reduces the storage size of Domino databases.
• Domino 64-bit native support option for Microsoft^® Windows 2003 and IBM AIX^® platforms. 64 bit support enables Domino to address more memory on the server than is possible in previous versions.
• Support for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2 standards encryption for Lotus Notes e-mail.

I’ve been using Domino 8.0.1 for the last two weeks and I have found that it is more stable and responsive than Notes 8.0. Best of all, the Integrated Sametime client code has been updated to the Sametime 8.0 codestream which offers many bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Product Announcement: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/897/ENUS208-024/index.html