I recently did a post, entitled “Lotus Notes 8 Coming in 2007,” and now IBM had announced the public beta for its Lotus Notes and Domino 8. According to IBM, there have been more than 12,000 downloads of this Lotus Notes and Domino 8 for a variety of platforms following the released announcement. It seems that the management of IBM have optimistic about the receptive of the corporate world towards this product. “Lotus Notes and Domino 8 delivers a high-performance work environment that natively links to other Lotus software components such as social software, collaborative content management, and unified communications and collaboration. This version allows developers to build a new class of Web 2.0 solutions and taps into the latest technologies from IBM Research.” Said Ken Bisconti, vice president of Lotus messaging and collaboration.

You can download the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 beta version by clicking here.

However, the final version of this product that proposed by IBM for release would due in the middle of this year.