Notes 8
I have been running the Notes 8 beta since the day after its release. The released beta is running Lotus Notes on top of eclipse. This has given the UI a great and much needed face lift. Most people I know that dislike Notes don’t like the UI. I think they will be very satisfied with Notes 8 when it is released. I like that they integrated the Sametime client 7.5.1 and an RSS reader as well.
The upgrade is easily done by running the installer. Once it is upgraded I recommend you upgrade the design of your mail file to DWA 8. Make sure you ask your Notes admin to make sure he doesn’t mind you changing your mail file design.
The performance is poor however IBM has noted that nothing has been done for performance tuning in the beta. I would not recommend anyone run the beta without at least 1 Gigabyte of RAM. I hope they are able to make it work on computers with 512 Megabytes. I have noticed some of the UI widgets don’t always operate consistently and my designer client doesn’t load at all. It has also been randomly crashing about once a week. I was a little surprised with the number of bugs in an IBM beta however, I believe they were under great pressure to release this ASAP so customers could start playing with it.
Overall I think the next version will be a great upgrade and I look forward to it.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:22 am
“Make sure you ask your Notes admin to make sure he doesn’t mind you changing your mail file design.”
Ask? whats the point in that
There have been a lot of comments about performance in the beta forums and it sounds like there is still a lot of room for improvement… I really hope so!