Lotus Notes Domino 8 officially available

Lotus Notes 8 Client Lotus Notes & Domino 8.0.1 The rich client is IBM Lotus Notes 8 version is available since august 2007 for Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX and OS/400 plateforms.

A big change for version 8 is that the Notes client is based on the Eclipse framework ; it was originally an open-source Java development tool of IBM. You can still use the 'basic' 8 client developped in C/C++ langages but without Java plugins...

Eclipse's plug-in system is used to extend the client or makes it run on different operating systems. The Eclipse Rich Client Platform supports Mac OS X and HP-UX in addition to these, and theoretically any OS with a Java Virtual Machine.

New prices in 2008
In 2007, the unit public price of 'Notes 8' was officially 101 dollars (75 euros) per licence. But 50% of these public rates depend on the context of competition.

For instance, the global Lotus collaboration suite (licences for Notes, Quickr, Connections, Sametime) was available under conditions for 199$ or 142,23€ per user in 2007.