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Free Download IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer 8.5.1 (and Admin too)

Built on Eclipse, powered by JSF, and easy to use. Lotus Domino Designer integrates many development technologies within a common look-and feel IDE including Lotus Domino, Java, XML, and Web. It enables you to rapidly develop business critical applications and take advantage of new trends such as Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Architecture with a robust, scalable, security-rich platform.  More >

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Here is the link for the free download of the Eclipse based designer client for Domino 8.5.1.

Free Download IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer 8.5.1

Edited to Add: The free download actually is the all clients version with Notes, Developer, and Admin clients plus the Sametime client.

Should Lotus Have a Free Email Client

I spent a few minutes at the "Lotus Knows" campaign today - here is an idea I voted yes to.  Microsoft and Google give away an email client for free.  Should Lotus give away a free version of the Notes client?

IBM Marketing Lotus Products with Lotus Knows Campaign & Idea Jam

After years of letting the great software from Lotus languish under poor marketing, IBM finally has woken up and decided to put some crowd sourcing buzz behind Lotus.  Their new campaign is going viral with a twitter hashtag of #lotusknows.  They also have a 72 hour Idea Jam site up where the community can make suggestions - tell IBM what you think.

My contribution - "Lotus Knows I need a job!"  (Ok, just interjecting a little humor into the equation.)  I personally am afraid this may be a case of too little too late, but one can hope that this will spark more interest in the IBM offerings.  Just because Microsoft is the biggest gorilla on the block does not mean its products are the best.  At any rate, I believe in being vendor independent and can admin Domino, Exchange, Blackberry, iPhone, and whatever else you throw my way.

Notes Traveler - Get Your Notes Mail Pushed to Your iPhone Now

Notes Traveller 8.5.1 will include functionality for using Microsoft ActiveSync to connect to Domino. iPhone users are perking up their ears because this means that their IT department can now offer Notes/Domino email push service to the iPhone.

Traveller is available now in beta, from the Lotus Greenhouse site.

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