Burton Group: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 -- IBM is Ready to Compete

November 1 2009

Burton Group's Bill Pray calls Notes/Domino 8.5.1 a "compelling release":

Reaching the service pack 1 milestone for 8.5 removes what is often the last barrier to upgrading for many enterprises who wait for the first service pack. It comes at an opportune time for IBM to stave off potential switching e-mail solutions discussions that Microsoft's Exchange 2010 will inevitably introduce in many enterprises.
and to win some new customers as well...

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Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  notesdomino lotusnotes 8.5 lotus  Add/View Comments [3]

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  1. 1  Dave Harris http://www.wavysworld.com | 11/2/2009 4:43:13 AM

    Service Pack? It's almost a feature release!!

  1. 2  Randall Shimizu  | 11/2/2009 5:24:39 AM

    It's a welcome review Ed, but Lotus needs clear and compelling advantages if it hopes to take market share from Exchange. Microsoft has and is willing spend the money to market the heck out of Exchange.

  1. 3  Frederic Block http://www.easi.net | 11/3/2009 3:26:36 AM

    @1 Dave

    I think IBM is now not clear enough with its releases.

    If I look at the version numbering, 8.5.1 is a minor 'bug-fix' release. So the press coverage is right.

    Based on what was added in this release, this is much more than a simple 'Service Pack', indeed. Personally, I would have called it 8.6.0...

    Many of our customers are also complaining about this: you cannot easily maintain your users is some are running 8.5.0 and others 8.5.1 : there are too many differences support has to be aware of... Ideally, you would have to upgrade all your users...