At  todays Lotus Collaboration Summit launch event in  New York, Mike Rhodin announced news on many new capabilties in the Lotus collaboration suite including what's planned for Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1, due out in Q1 2008. A number of important new capabilities are planned for Domino 8.0.1 in addition to the regular continuous maintenance improvements.
  • Database compression which significantly reduces the storage size of Domino databases
  • Domino 64 bit native support option for Microsoft Windows 2003 and IBM AIX platforms (other 64 bit platforms will be deliver in follow on releases). 64 bit enables Domiono to address far larger memory on the server than allowed  by the current system limitations. We just kicked off the 64 bit code pre-beta last  week with ISV's and nominated customers.
  • Support for FIPS 140-2 standards encryption for Notes delivered email will be added in 8.0.1.

In addition, we announced that 8.0.1 will deliver  a new capability, Lotus Notes Traveler, which enables basic mobile email replication over the air to wireless handheld devices, as well as a new Domino Web Access lite option for bandwidth constrained users.