Lotus solutions and products 2008

IBM Websphere

= Service Oriented Architecture = As the leader in the portal software market, IBM delivers innovative capabilities such as business accelerators for IBM® WebSphere® ; it speeds collaboration for customer projects and preserve existing investments with :
 * Lotus Notes
 * Lotus Sametime
 * Lotus Quickr
 * Lotus Connections

Tagging clouds

=Tags cloud= A tag cloud is a weighted list in visual design. This is a visual perception of frequency shown with font size or color. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items

Numbers
A tag cloud is a set of related tags with corresponding weights. Typical tag clouds have between 30 and 150 tags. The weights are represented using font sizes or other visual clues.

History
The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr, created by Stewart Butterfield.

= New releases = After 25 years of leadership, Lotus is healthy. Mike Rhodin, General Manager Lotus precise "2006 is the best year ever made by Lotus...". Results IDC shows Lotus is competitive winning market shares in the world : for instance, growth is 7% up in France compared to an average sector increase of 4%.


 * 1) the 24th of jully 2006, IBM figures out the release 7.0.1 based on Eclipse. The Lotus Notes version 7.0.2 is stable since then.
 * 2) the 28th of june 2007, IBM shows its new major version of domino Lotus Notes v8 (code "Hannover"), still based on Eclipse.