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	Special Lotus Edition

IBM Software Newsletter

In this issue
		Preview the next year in collaboration - watch the Lotusphere General Session webcast New Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 harnesses more Web power No-charge Lotus Symphony now the global, extensible Office alternative Build your small business with new Lotus Foundations and project "Bluehouse" Lotus Quickr 8.1 adds ECM integration, personal file sharing Lotus Connections 2.0 aims to continue unprecedented growth Watch for more new products all year long When we compete, you win. Read why customers are choosing Lotus. Let the IBM Dashboard Accelerator put you in control Catch up on Lotus Business Partner products and awards See the open, collaborative, cost-effective desktop of the future Nurture future collaboration at the Lotus Greenhouse

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		Preview the next year in collaboration - watch the Lotusphere General Session webcast In this Special Lotus Edition you'll find links to information about nearly every product announced at Lotusphere^® 2008. But the best way to appreciate these new products is to see them in action. Watch the Lotusphere General Session webcast - featuring a symphonic overture, a Bob Costas keynote, and nearly two hours of demos starring the products that will define and transform collaboration in the year to come. Register and watch

		New Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0.1 harnesses more Web power Coming in February 2008, IBM Lotus^® Notes^® and Domino^® 8.0.1 will help Notes users get even more from Web connectivity and Web 2.0 technology. The show-stopping new feature: A new My Widgets area of the Notes 8 Sidebar, where you can access public widgets (e.g. Google^® Gadgets) as well as widgets from within your company. You can even set these widgets to be activated by certain phrases or text patterns in emails or Notes documents. Picture, for example, clicking any address that appears in an email - and having a Google Maps gadget display that address on a map! There’s much more in the new release, including the highly anticipated Lotus Notes Traveler (for wireless delivery of email to mobile phones) and a new Domino Web Access “lite” mode (for improved performance over low-bandwidth connections) – plus reduced Domino server bandwidth consumption, CPU usage and mail file storage requirements. Read the Notes Domino 8 brochure (updated for 8.0.1)

		No-charge Lotus Symphony now the global, extensible Office alternative Over 400,000 users have downloaded IBM Lotus Symphony^® since the open, no-charge desktop productivity suite debuted last September. Symphony Beta 3, released in December, added support for 23 languages. Symphony Beta 4, available at the end of January 2008, adds an open programming model that supports Eclipse and LotusScript – so developers and IBM Business Partners can easily integrate applications with Symphony and extend Symphony applications with plug-ins. (In fact, several plug-ins will soon be available at the Symphony community Web site.) It all makes Symphony the cost-cutting, extensible alternative to Microsoft^® Office – for more customers than ever. Download the latest Symphony beta

		Build your small business with Lotus Foundations and project "Bluehouse" New IBM Lotus Foundations is a family of Linux-based, autonomic (self-healing) software servers that will deliver affordable, essential functionality for businesses with five to 500 employees. Look for the first Foundations offering this spring - a collaboration server including Domino mail and collaboration plus file and directory management, firewall, backup and recovery, and desktop productivity tools. A related new offering, codenamed project "Bluehouse," offers a suite of hosted extranet collaboration services – social contacts, IM, store-and-share, activities management and Web conferencing – enabling companies to collaborate beyond their firewalls without in-house IT expertise. Companies with five to 500 employees can sign up to work with the project "Bluehouse" beta at http://bluehouse.lotus.com. Read about Lotus’ big plans for small business

		Lotus Quickr 8.1 adds ECM integration, personal file sharing IBM Lotus Quickr™ helps team members inside and outside your firewall manage content and complete projects – using integrated content libraries, discussion forums, blogs, wikis and more. New Quickr 8.1, available in March 2008, adds easier integration with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and a new Lotus Quickr Entry feature that enables personal file sharing. Listen to a recent IBM Collaboration Channel podcast, "Achieve Your Team Goals with Collaborative Ease: IBM Lotus Quickr." It tells how Quickr helps teams in sales, marketing and other areas collaborate faster for improved productivity - and bettter results. Listen to the podcast

		Lotus Connections 2.0 aims to continue unprecedented growth Since it was introduced at Lotusphere 2007, IBM Lotus Connections has become the fastest-growing commercial product in IBM Software history! Due to arrive by mid-2008, Connections 2.0 adds a new widget-based home page that lets you aggregate and filter social data from all Connections services into a single, customizable view of your professional network. Why is Lotus Connections so popular? Because it helps companies to leverage the collective wisdom of employees, customers and partners, to everyone's benefit. Watch a new Flash demo to learn how Connections can help your company be more productive, innovative and successful. Watch the Connections demo

		Watch for more new products all year long From mid to late 2008 Lotus will release several brand-new products. New Lotus Mashups, due near mid-year, will let companies enable line-of-business users and other non-technical personnel to create mashups (situational Web applications) without programming or IT involvement – but without sacrificing enterprise control or security. Lotus Sametime 8.0^® Advanced, also due near mid-2008, will offer groundbreaking new features like persistent chat rooms and ‘Skilltap’ expertise location; Sametime Telephony, due later in the year, will simplify unified communications deployments in companies with multiple phone systems. There’s even more to come: The Lotus Protector security product for Domino servers; a new Lotus/SAP joint venture, code-named “Atlantic,” that lets Notes users to access and manage SAP business processes and data directly from within Notes; a Lotus Open Collaboration Client for the Ubunto Linux-based operating system, and a new Linux solution from Lotus and Red Hat. And near the end of the year: Notes and Domino 8.5, featuring landmark enhancements to the Domino Web application server. Read all the announcements from Lotusphere

Events and resources
		When we compete, you win. Read why customers are choosing Lotus. One industrial products manufacturer cut licensing costs by 15 percent - and virtually eliminated email training costs - by switching from Microsoft Exchange^® and Outlook^® to Lotus Domino Collaboration Express. Download a brochure summarizing this and nine other case studies. Get more info				Let the IBM Dashboard Accelerator put you in control Join David Gootzit of Gartner for “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights,” a Web seminar explaining how business dashboards can combine data from multiple sources into “a single source of the truth” about your company’s key performance indicators. Then learn how the IBM Dashboard Accelerator can help you build dashboards faster. Tune in to the seminar

Catch up on Lotus Business Partner products and awards

IBM Lotus Business Partners take advantage of Lotusphere to showcase new collaborative applications for virtually every industry - including, most likely, yours. Read all the partner press releases from Lotusphere. And see which partners won coveted Lotus Awards.

Read the releases

See the open, collaborative, cost-effective desktop of tomorrow

Join Lotus experts Paul Culpepper and Antony Satyadas for a revealing look at how IBM Lotus collaboration investments combine to create a super-productive, multi-platform, cost-saving alternative desktop. Then see another webcast for details on the latest desktop component, Lotus Symphony.

Watch the webcast - see tomorrow today

Nurture future collaboration at the IBM Lotus Greenhouse

See the latest innovations in collaboration from Lotus. Try out Sametime 8.0, Lotus Connections, Quickr, and more. Download handy feature plug-ins for your Lotus software. Share ideas with other users – and provide feedback that may shape future products.

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