business software
12/28/2006, 1:55pm, EST
Thursday, December 28th
IBM releases Lotus Notes 7.0.2 for OS X
IBM today released Lotus Notes 7.0.2 for Mac OS X, offering enterprise Mac users instant messaging, presence awareness, and Web 2.0 tools such as RSS technology and a blogging template. An enhanced user interface and email productivity features enable Mac users to group emails through a conversation thread, view emails at-a-glance, and save work in progress without the need to manually activate the save function. The software enhances collaboration through integrated instant messaging and presence awareness, according to IBM, by allowing users to communicate in real time across an enterprise from within Notes email, calendar, and contacts. Full calendaring features include group scheduling as well as meeting delegation, and embedded RSS technology allows users to publish data from any Lotus Notes application. Lotus Notes 7.0.2 for the Mac is available for $101 per seat (specific system requirements were unavailable).
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IBM should be encouraged to continue Mac development, not criticized when it puts out a Mac product.
I support a Mac-based department in a large Windows-based enterprise. They use Notes, currently 6.5.4. It is not as bad as older versions were, but it is still complete and total ass. I doubt 7.x will be much better.
If IBM's going to do a Mac version, they ought to do a *good* one-- I to call the Mac version of Notes "half assed" is to heap excess praise upon it.
6.5.x still defaults to putting the user's data folder in the Notes application folder, and it's only recently even given you the choice to put it in your home folder. It's brain dead about folder paths. And it's a royal pain to troubleshoot. If I can't figure out the problem in 15 minutes I just cross my fingers and reinstall and hope that will fix the problem.
~Philly