IBM announced this morning the official availability dates for its highly anticipated next version of Notes/Domino. This is truly a miles stone release for IBM that has been years in the making. See also my previous blog posts on this topic:

Notes gets Nip/Tuck’ed

Big Blue is getting some respect

Notes/Domino 8 is hitting the homestretch

With this release, Lotus is hoping to restore some balance in the competitive battle over the enterprise email and collaboration market against Microsoft. While Domino has always been superior in the server room by offering a highly scalable and flexible collaboration platform capable of running on a multitude of hardware and OS versions ranging from Wintel to Mainframe, the dated Notes UI had been the source of much user frustration and ridicule. Notes 8 and the accompanying productivity applications are a complete rebuild on top of the Eclipse framework bringing a much-needed fresh new look to Notes.

The stakes are high for IBM and it will be interesting to see how this release will fare in the market.

Planned availability dates (from IBM’s website)

Electronic software delivery:

• August 17, 2007: English
• September 10, 2007: Japanese
• September 19, 2007: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese-Brazilian, Korean, Chinese - Traditional and Simplified, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish
• January 23, 2008: Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polish
• April 2, 2008: Catalan, Slovenian, Slovakian, Thai

Physical media and documentation:

• September 21, 2007: English
• October 26, 2007: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese-Brazilian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese - Traditional and Simplified, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish
• February 29, 2008: Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polish
• May 2, 2008: Catalan, Slovenian, Slovakian, Thai

Technorati Tags: Notes Domino 8, ND8, IBM, Lotus, ND8 availibility

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