Updated Lotus Connections Client for Blackberry shipping on May 8th

Looking over todays IBM Press Release  from WES I noticed that there is now a ship date for the new Lotus Connections Blackberry client from RIM

The next generation BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections, developed by RIM and available May 8, will meet a need in corporate human resources to help manage an increasingly mobile workforce through social networks with blogs, activities, communities and tag clouds. Now, employees can form communities adding new contacts at conferences and other meetings while inventorying skills and expertise in the process. In addition, tag clouds help drill down through information on a myriad of contacts to the core expertise being sought locally or globally, wherever the customer may be.

The press release also contains some announcements regarding Sametime and LotusLive clients for the Blackberry IBM Helps Customers Work Smarter With New Software and Services for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0