IBM India announces launch of Lotus Notes, Domino Ver. 6.5
By Our Convergence Bureau | 25 Sep 2003
New
Delhi: IBM India today announced the availability
of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 (www.ibm.com/lotus/messaging),
one of the industry''s leading messaging and collaboration
platforms.
In addition to the expanded Linux support and new in-box management features, the latest version of Lotus Notes and Domino integrates Lotus Instant Messaging (formerly Lotus Sametime) and WebSphere Portal functionality, giving users online ''awareness'' capabilities and the ability to initiate instant messaging (IM) sessions directly from their in-box or from a collaborative application.
Lotus Notes 6.5 is the first release of Lotus Notes to embrace IBM''s new Lotus Workplace strategy. Lotus Workplace is a new platform for integrating people with business processes. The Lotus Workplace for Notes interface provides a unified entry point into various collaborative applications and capabilities. Users can access collaborative tools such as messaging, instant messaging, search and calendaring & scheduling, along with other applications and capabilities.
The Lotus Workplace platform seamlessly combines employee productivity with business processes, and serves as the "front end" of IBM''s On Demand strategy by arming customers with the collaborative tools they need to help react to market opportunities, customer demands and competitive threats.
"In today''s corporate environment, businesses want their messaging solution to go beyond just email — instead, they want their messaging solution to be part of a larger collaborative platform that will help drive down costs and enhance employee productivity," says Tapan Mehta, country manager, Lotus Software, IBM India. "Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 will continue to give customers the security features and performance they have come to expect from IBM, and provide an exciting entry to Lotus Workplace platform and its business benefits."
In addition to new collaborative features and functions, IBM is continuing to expand Linux support as a way to manage the costs associated with messaging and collaboration technology. Expanded support for Linux, including Linux support for Domino Web Access — the first fully-supported Linux-based Web client — and Domino for Linux on IBM zSeries eServer, gives customers additional flexibility and help drive down the total cost of ownership.