First Glimpse at Hannover

I was jus browsing at ibm site to see if there are any new updates in developerWorks and Lotusphere , then i stumbled upon a link which said IBM has announced the public beta for Lotus Notes 8, (better known as Hannover in the Lotus notes user community).

just imagine... Hannover is to Lotus notes , what Longhorn or Vista is for windows....

This is the coolest and the most advertised version of Lotus Notes ever to be released... with a Extremely new UI and Functionalities, I didn want to miss a chance in evaluating the latest beta from IBM site.

I jus went ahead and downloaded the 623 MB file from IBM site and installed it on my machine.

I have given some screen shots in here, which are taken from that version.


This is the Defaluts Home Page of Hannover, you can access sametime... you can subscribe for RSS feeds. Read Feeds, Compose mail, Creadee Docs, Spreadsheets , Presentations, Databases ... right from the Hoempage.... Its extremely user friendly





Mail Interface for Lotus notes: This is the coolest thing... we all are gonna have a interface thats gonna compete with other e-mail clients (MSO2007/WinMail) in UI... this is the major innovation from the Notes user prespective.






Calendar looks great with new user interface and a wide range of other options.



Creating spreadsheets and presentations can be done on the fly without the need of using microsoft office.... notes has integrated SOFFICE page built in to it... the Office package offers excellent compatibility with Microsoft office file formats , so the switch over process will be a lot easier


With the New version of Lotus Notes.... IBM is offering a big challenge to Microsoft by offering a solution which integrates the basic needs for office environments, like e-mail, instant messages, creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc...

Notes is all set to crack the market with this innovation.