14 DAY TRIAL // Lotus Domino 7 includes new collaboration features and tools that can help improve productivity for IT administrators and corporate application developers, as well as significant new productivity enhancements to help Lotus Notes users work more efficiently. With Lotus Notes and Domino 7, IBM has created a vastly improved collaboration platform designed to meet the evolving and expanding needs of knowledge workers.
End-user productivity is a driving factor in companies' uses of collaboration software, and with Lotus Notes 7 users will benefit from more than 100 new features that will allow them to manage an increasing volume of information and work more efficiently. 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. 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.
In addition to increased end-user functionality, Lotus Notes and Domino 7 extends IBM's leadership in providing tools and functionality for IT administrators and application developers that can optimize the value of the Lotus Notes and Domino platform while leveraging existing skills and investments.
Lotus Domino 7 also includes new tools for application developers. According to customer feedback, more than 65 percent of IBM customers are building as many or more Lotus Domino-based applications this year than one year ago. The number of applications is predicted to increase with the improved development capabilities in Lotus Domino 7. 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.
The IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 product family, including Lotus Sametime 7, Lotus QuickPlace 7, Lotus Domino Designer 7, Lotus Domino Web Access, the Lotus Domino Express products and other product offerings is now generally available.
IBM Lotus Domino server software starts at an SRP of $1145 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 ).