Edbrill talks about Notes/Domino 8.5.4, Notes ’Next’, LotusLive Symphony, ...

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1. Notes & Domino 8.5.4 is coming in 2012
Ed talked about the next release of the product, 8.5.4. This will be primarily a maintenance release, in contrast to 8.5.1, 8.5.2, and 8.5.3. It will introduce some back-end services needed for the next news item.

2. Notes Next is coming in 2012 - and it won't be called 9
A feature pack is coming in 2012 that will bring the Project Vulcan and Social Business experiences to the Notes client. It will also elevate the web and mobile experience to be 1st class citizens in the client world. ... The big piece of info is that IBM has picked a name for this release. It's not 9. The name will most likely be announced at Lotusphere.

3. LotusLive Symphony coming in 2012 with an on premises version as well
IBM will be releasing their on-line collaborative editors in 2012 as part as LotusLive. That was no surprise. The big news is that there will be an on-premises version of this release next year as well. That means you can run the web editors on a server inside your firewall. Lotus Connections will most likely be the back-end server required to run this.

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