If you’re a business partner, or if you have download access, you can go to the following adresses: Let’s face it folks: It ain’t gonna happen. So no, before you ask: Still no Designer or Admin client for Mac. Notes, Designer and Admin Client for Windows.Domino on Docker (which makes it possible to install the server on a Mac).This is the timeline for the beta program: Test in your environment with your apps.Get feedback directly from the customers and users.Cool, eh? Why an HCL Domino v12 Beta Program You don’t need to take my word for everything, you can test it out yourself. It’s a really impressive list, and wait til you see the new Notes client!įirst of all, we wrote in this blog posting how youcan join the beta program. In addition, we attended a webinar where we went through all the updates that has happened so far. There have been more upgrades in two years than IBM did in the last 7 years they owned the platform.Īnd today we installed Beta 2 of both Notes V12 (the client) and Domino V12 (the server). We’ve done tons of blog postings here about all the changes and upgrades that have happened to Domino V10 and V11. There are also claims that “HCL has only done minor upgrades to the platform” after taking over development of Notes and Domino back in 2017, before gaining ownership of it in 2018. But people outside the HCL/IBM community still refer to the product as Lotus Notes. After all, the product Lotus Notes became IBM Notes over ten years ago, and then turned into HCL Notes over two years ago. Now, if they were still using Lotus Notes, we’d agree that these organisations were in dire need of a major upgrade. Lately there have been articles published on both techie and regular news sites about organisations that are “still using Lotus Notes”. It won’t be 64 bit until general release of V12. UPDATE 2: Earlier version of this article stated that this beta was in 64 bit mode, but that is not correct. You can install the Domino server on a Mac using Docker. UPDATE: In an earlier version of this posting, I claimed you could install Notes Domino and Designer on a Mac using Docker.

In the past week news stories have spread around the tech world stating that while HCL took over Notes and Domino from IBM, “not much has been happening with the platform.” This is fake news! People, meet Notes/Domino V12 Beta 2.

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