Favorite quotes on Notes/Domino 8.5.1 launch from around the interwebs

October 7 2009

After dinner last night, I took a few minutes to snapshot some of the reactions to yesterday's Notes/Domino 8.5.1 announcements from blogs and Twitter.  Here's what I shared with my team -- by no means is it a complete list.

  • Declaration of a national holiday in Spain by blogger Albert Buendia; "We're celebrating" in Catalan from Twitter user @montseriol
  • "Lotus Knows that Super.Human.Software is back. Go dust off your cape" -- Darren Duke
  • "Install it, use it, and take the time to get to know it." -- Andrew Pollack
  • "Don't wait. Plan your upgrade ASAP and enjoy the enhancements." -- Scott Hooks
  • "Lotus Knows that Notes licensing just got much easier and more valuable with only 2 CAL versions" -- Handly Cameron
  • "Excellent. IBM releases Domino 8.5.1 Domino Designer is now FREEEEEE!" -- @smithkenny
  • "Awesome! Lotus Mobile Connect VPN Client license is now part of any notes user license. Finally one of Lotus finest products gets attention!" -- @mgarden
  • "IBM bringt Lotus Notes mit iPhone-Anbindung! und alle so Yeah!" (IBM introduces Lotus Notes with iPhone connection!  Yeah!) -- @sebbo2002
  • Other Twitter reactions: "Delighted to see that Domino Designer is now free - that is a recession-friendly price :-)"; "THIS IS AWESOME!!"; "Great news, nice move IBM!"
  • Customers asking "what time UTC will 8.5.1 ship on Monday?"
These great quotes are in addition to the fantastic ones in yesterday's press release from customers and business partners.  Thank you all for sharing your thoughts with us.

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8.5  Add/View Comments [9]

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  1. 1  Curt Stone http://www.curtsisland.com | 10/7/2009 8:02:35 AM

    Awesome news on the free Designer Client.

    Can someone comment on whether it will play nice with concurrent older versions already installed on Windows pc? Have Elipse already installed. THANKS for everything. This announcement is playing well in my world.

  1. 2  Vincent Yeung  | 10/7/2009 8:14:04 AM

    Now I have one more item to give thanks to my God on Canada Thanksgiving Monday (2009-Oct-12)!!

  1. 3  Josef Průša  | 10/8/2009 3:42:36 AM

    Great. But still no 8.5.1 in our Passport Advantage. Any idea how long can it take to appear there?

  1. 4  Josef Průša  | 10/8/2009 3:46:27 AM

    OOPS my bad - looks like we'll have to till the 12th.

  1. 5  Alan Head  | 10/8/2009 5:02:47 AM

    Looks like I booked the wrong two weeks to take a vacation! Oh well, new goodies to play with when I return :-)

    (and the download servers should have recovered from the assault of 12/10!)

  1. 6  Dave Harris http://www.wavysworld.com | 10/9/2009 7:02:20 AM

    Ed, my point stands: is Asia/Pacific going to have to wait until Tuesday to get 8.5.1, or do we have wait until 12PM rolls around to the US?

  1. 7  Irv Shor  | 10/9/2009 7:41:24 AM

    Is there a release schedule posted for Language Pack availability under 8.5.1?

  1. 8  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 10/9/2009 8:59:15 AM

    @6 Dave, this isn't a rocket launch. I don't have a time for the availability yet.

    @7 the language schedule hasn't been posted yet for some reason. Group I and Group 2A languages should be in mid-November (electronic availability) and Group 2B and Group 3 should be in early January. I'll post a link when it is available.

  1. 9  Pierre  | 10/10/2009 5:43:02 AM

    Ed, it certainly is not a rocket launch but being in CritSit over a month now with 8.5 freezing, hanging, crashing every other day, I would love to be able to tell my CIO when we might get some relief.