Lotus Notes 7.02 brings full Mac support

This is a great improvement over the 6.5 client. It is a much nicer user experience.

As for comments about Notes itself, we have used Notes for over 10 years and nothing touches it for groupware integration. Sorry, Apple and Microsoft are playing in this workspace compared to Lotus.

If you aren't getting the value out of it, I suspect it speaks more to your ability than the products limitations...

We consistently deliver useful, value-added solutions to our users with this product, that increase productivity and visibility to the business without expensive development costs.

Is it a great email package? No, but it isn't that bad either. The real point is that if all you are using it for email and calendaring, your an idiot.

If you neither have the ability nor vision to build groupware applications, then you are wasting your time with this tool, and should consider outlook or the email program that comes with osX. Clearly, you don't get it....

WHEN!!! When Lotus Notes/Macosx will support cyrillics? Why this stupid warez still use iso-8859-5 code page on macosx? How to bring to lotus team mind that nobody in the world use iso cyrillic encoding espesially in macos :-)

Have just started to use 7.0.2. It seems a lot slower than 6.5.x. And there is still no support for CE and Cyrillic characters, if I'm not mistaken. How on earth can anyone take this application seriously??

a decent Ma client? HA HA HA!
Someone doesn't actually use notes on a Mac, now do they Mr Charles Thomson?
The idea, or purpose of Notes is good -
The software is not. Not at all. It doesn't even take advantages of technologies that have been around for a decade on the Mac platform. What Notes does is just make Macs look bad.
Notes deserves more bashing than a piñata.

"Co-worker tells me that scroll-wheel scrolling works, but poorly."

Lordy yes. Scroll wheel support has been built in to OSX since, what, 2001? 2002? (Oh, April 2001 - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106258)

Notes 6.5 - here we are in 2006 - doesn't support the scroll wheel. And that's only the beginning of its usability failures. Yet thousands of people are obliged to use it.

Ed Brill tries, but it's very uphill.

Okay - enough Notes bashing. A decent Mac client from IBM breaks down one more barrier to entry in the corporate world for Apple. Whatever your opinion of Notes is, this is very good news for Mac users.

FYI - the beta was posted to macnbits (http://beta.macnbits.com)

Thanks Miguel! I guess it would also be contingent upon your company's VPN allowing a Mac to connect.

To Kesey - yes you can - I do it from home all the time via VPN. To Bruce - Thanks!
:)

"A trial version of the released Notes 7.0.2 for Mac will be posted to the developerWorks downloads in about a month. In the meantime, Passport Advantage and Business Partners should find it on the downloads site sometime today."

From Ed Brill's blog http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notes-7.0.2-for-mac-ega-today