Rigtig mange lækre nyheder/features med 7.0.2:
New for clients: Expanded platform support, SAP integration, more
Now a version of the Lotus Notes 7.0.2 client will run on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger); in addition, the IBM Domino Web Access Client will now run on the Mac via a Firefox browser. This Mac compatibility covers both PowerPC- and the Intel Core Duo-based Macs. For Linux customers, Lotus Notes 7.0.1 will suport Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 via the Notes Plug-In for the IBM Workplace Managed Client 2.6.1.
“Every time we add additional platform support, we increase our leadership in this area,” says Scharfman. “If you look at Microsoft Outlook, the platform it supports is basically Windows and more Windows. Lotus Notes supports Windows plus Mac and Linux. When you compare server platforms, Exchange supports Windows, whereas Lotus Domino runs on Windows, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux (on both Intel and IBM eServer zSeries), IBM i5/OS, and IBM z/OS; Lotus Domino will even support the use of Outlook clients. Our customers have the flexibility and the options to stay with the platform they prefer.”
“Every time we add additional platform support, we increase our leadership."
Lotus Notes 7.0.2 provides customers with the option of importing iCalendar-based calendars directly into the Lotus Notes calendar. "This is particularly useful if you want to import a calendar used by a professional or social organization in which you are engaged. You have all the important dates in your own Lotus Notes calendar, which you see every day,” says Mottola.
The 7.0.2 release also includes a blog template for creating online journals, bulletin boards, guestbooks and other blog components. “More and more of our customers are using Lotus Domino to host internal and outward-facing blogs,” says Scharfman. “They can use these centralized templates out of the box to set up a blog and control who contributes and how, and, of course, they can customize them any way they like.”
Lotus Notes on a (memory) stick -- Users can use their Lotus Notes environment on any computer – whether the computer has Lotus Notes installed or not. IBM Lotus Notes Access for SAP solutions, a set of Lotus Notes client templates that has been available since May 2006, is incorporated into 7.0.2. “Lotus Notes Access for SAP solutions lets users act on SAP data from within Notes,” says Scharfman. “There is a set of 7 scenarios that address the most popular user actions. For example, users track their billable hours by project code in the Lotus Notes calendar and then group the entries to send to their SAP application. Analysts and customers have already responded very favorably to this, because of the obvious productivity benefits of being able to do even more work within the familiar environment of the Lotus Notes client.”
New for workers on the go: Lotus Notes on a (memory) stick
Perhaps the coolest of all the new 7.0.2 features is the ability to load a user’s Lotus Notes environment on to a USB flash drive, or memory stick. Users can then insert the memory stick into the USB drive on any other computer, double-click the icon that appears on the computer’s desktop and use their Lotus Notes environment on that computer – whether the computer has Lotus Notes installed or not.
“If the computer has VPN access to your company network, you can use Lotus Notes in full connected mode, just as you’d use it at your desktop,” says Mottola. “If the computer doesn’t have VPN access, you can still use Lotus Notes in offline mode, the way you’d use it, say, on your laptop in an airplane.” He adds that this is an ideal solution for anyone who needs to travel to another company office but can’t, or would rather not, take a laptop along.
For Lotus Domino: New features for administrators, developers
Lotus Domino 7.0.2 adds the ability to RSS-enable any Lotus Domino database – or, more specifically, to publish any view or folder of a Lotus Domino database as an RSS 2.0 feed. “With RSS enablement, and the blog templates we mentioned earlier, we’re giving customers more options for publishing data to internal and external audiences,” says Mottola.
Other new Lotus Domino server features include support for Novell SuSE Linux 10 (on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms), support for Microsoft Windows X64 Server and format conversion for Microsoft Exchange TNEF Messages. Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) is a message format used by Microsoft in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook when sending rich-text-format messages. Previously, non-Microsoft software could not convert TNEF to readable text because the API was undocumented. Now, using newly published specifications, Lotus Domino 7.0.2 will be able to correctly convert such messages into readable form instead of an undecipherable WINMAIL.DAT file attachment.
“With Run as Admin, an administrator can use Smart Upgrade even on desktops that are completely locked down. This just adds to Lotus Notes/Domino’s unmatched upgrade ease."
7.0.2 also extends Lotus Domino’s Smart Upgrade capability with a new feature called Run as Admin, which allows administrators to prepare a Lotus Notes client installation kit that includes a prepackaged Windows account with administrator privileges.
“With Run as Admin, an administrator can use Smart Upgrade even on desktops that are completely locked down,” says Scharfman. “This just adds to Lotus Notes/Domino’s unmatched upgrade ease, another big competitive advantage of ours. With Lotus Notes/Domino you can upgrade using your existing hardware, you can upgrade clients and servers on different schedules, and, since Lotus Notes and Domino 6, you have Smart Upgrade that makes upgrading desktops easier than ever. The bottom line is that we enable in-line upgrades that aren’t big overhauls. That’s one big reason why 90% of our customers had moved to a 6.x release of our product by mid 2005, which is incredibly fast by industry standards, and why so many of our customers have begun to deploy Lotus Notes/Domino 7 just months after its release.”
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