Lotus Notes 8.5 client version-to-version comparison

February 15 2009

Notes product marketing just finished this useful presentation set, which helps showcase the improvements in and benefits of upgrading to the Notes 8.5 client.  It was perfectly timed for a customer request I received over the weekend....and thus I figured it would be useful to a broader audience.

Lotus Notes 8.5 version to version comparison
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Other Notes/Domino 8.5 materials can be found at the Notes/Domino 8.5 page on ibm.com.

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  1. 1  Henry Ferlauto http://www.geniusinside.com | 2/15/2009 4:52:49 PM

    Very nice. Should come in handy with "internal selling."

    One note: Slide 16 - typo - Windows 2000 Professional (slide says Windows 200)

  1. 2  Mike Brown  | 2/15/2009 6:45:14 PM

    Re: ability to show Google Calendars on your Notes Calendar.

    Wow! That's one that I didn't know about. Very nice. Only one minor quibble with it though: when viewed in Notes, my Google Calendar shows local weather forecasts for each day, even if I have that feature turned off in Google Calendar itself. (In fact, I didn't know there *was* such a feature in Google Calendar, so I guess I should thank Notes for the tip off!) Is there any way to turn this off?

  1. 3  Mike Brown  | 2/15/2009 7:11:48 PM

    Okay, I found it. I simply had to unsubscribe from the Weather Calendar in Google. This must be a default, since I never subscribed to it in the first place.

    Cheers,

    - Mike

  1. 4  Alex Kassabov http://kassabov.wordpress.com | 2/16/2009 12:06:52 AM

    Very nice. We just put together a similar matrix for our own use. Ours is much smaller though. Great work, Notes product marketing. Thank you.

  1. 5  Dvir Reznik http://dvirreznik.blogspot.com | 2/16/2009 1:33:56 AM

    Nice deck Ed, I was looking for something similar not too long ago.. Makes more sense in understanding the different versions and packages available - great work PM!

    Thanks.

  1. 6  Mark Barton http://htto://markbarton.com | 2/16/2009 3:24:17 AM

    Thanks Ed.

    Its a useful resource though if I was being picky I would have preferred the additional cost enhancements be called out separately or reworded to one line e.g. Enhanced integration with other Lotus Products like Connections & Quickr.

    Notes has enough stand-out new features to not require the padding.

  1. 7  Fredrik Söderquist  | 2/16/2009 3:31:47 AM

    Thanks.

    It would be great to see this type video for other products in the Lotus portfolio. For my organization, being a very large iNotes deployment, a similar video for iNotes would be highly appreciated.

  1. 8  Matthias  | 2/16/2009 3:36:38 AM

    thanks, possible to download the presentation anywhere?

  1. 9  Matt Brockway  | 2/16/2009 6:19:09 AM

    @Matthias you should be able to download it if you sign up at www.slideshare.net

  1. 10  Tony Austin http://asiapac.com.au | 2/16/2009 7:17:27 AM

    Good stuff. Need to remove the right parenthesis at the top of slide 11 >>> email Features)

    And, on slide 16, apart from Henry's catch (Windows 200) there's also "Windows 4.0" (meant to be the one that came after Windows NT 3.5 presumably).

    @9 Matt, the download button is missing from this particular Slideshare entry, so Matthias was correct. Ed, will you organize downloading (and get the typos corrected)?

  1. 11  Matthias  | 2/16/2009 7:21:14 AM

    ahh okay thanks ;)

  1. 12  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/16/2009 7:48:06 AM

    I am doing some minor edits per above and will get an ODP posted :-)

  1. 13  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 2/16/2009 9:29:16 AM

    Great chart. Of course I can't resist saying, this would be the perfect type of content for a wiki page: { Link } ;-)

  1. 14  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/16/2009 9:36:27 AM

    OK, I posted a PDF version and it's downloadable -- it seems like the quality might have suffered a little bit on slideshare, but the downloaded version looks good to me.

  1. 15  angela caruso  | 2/16/2009 11:06:15 PM

    I agree, a version to version comparison for DWA/iNotes is needed.

  1. 16  Ken Yee http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf | 2/23/2009 10:30:41 AM

    Sadly, some customers are still holding onto the Basic client to avoid user training for the new UI :-P

  1. 17  Lukas Martin  | 2/23/2009 11:48:42 AM

    Hi,

    Thanks Ed for that chart, is there some difference between the 8.5 Basic client and 8.5 Eclipse Client?

  1. 18  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/23/2009 5:42:27 PM

    @17 that's covered in Appendix "A" of the Notes/Domino 8 deployment Redbook: { Link }

  1. 19  Lukas Martin  | 2/26/2009 10:10:41 AM

    Thanks Ed