2006 in review

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Per Henrik Lausten

It’s the last day of the year and a time to look back at 2006. I started blogging in March 2006 and have enjoyed that blogging leads to more than just a way for me to share knowledge and information on “Lotus Domino, IT Architecture, technology and other IT stuff” (the title of my blog).

Via the community around blogging I have “met” a lot of people online – including Ed Brill, Alan Lepofsky, Rocky Oliver, Andy Piper, Luis Suarez, Philip Hartman, the Eight Bar team, Kelly Drahzal, Mikkel Heisterberg, Joachim Dagerot, Thomas Adrian, Ben Poole and many more.

Worth mentioning:

I was accepted on the official Lotus Geek honor roll!
I passed the Lotus Notes/Domino R7 Application Development Update exam
I did some volunteer work for Ben Poole by translating DominoWiki into Danish.

I have contributed to the Lotus Notes and Domino Blogging Community Show’n Tell Thursday series with the following posts:

Other interesting news in 2006:

A new mainframe for small and medium sized businesses was announced in April.
Lots of information on the upcoming Lotus Notes 8 client (a.ka. Hannover)
Lotus Notes client on Linux is here.
Lotus Sametime 7.5 has been released.
The Rational Software Delivery platform v7.0 has been released – and includes Rational Software Architect V7.0 (RSA) and Rational Application Developer V7.0 (RAD)
News on the upcoming Lotus Domino 8 server is now available.
IBM is now officially in Second Life

Happy new year!

Virtualization of 700 servers on two mainframes

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Per Henrik Lausten

InformationWeek has an interesting article on how Nationwide has consolidated more than 700 Intel and Unix servers on two IBM System z9 mainframes. Nationwide is running a version of Novell’s Suse Linux on the mainframes in VMware and IBM Virtualization Engine software.

I have previously blogged about the IBM System z9 Business Class and its usefulness for virtualization and also about reasons for running Linux on the mainframe.

IBM officially in Second Life

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Per Henrik Lausten

Second Life is one of the best known virtual worlds available on the Internet. Some call virtual worlds for the 3D Internet and compare the maturity of this 3D Internet with the Internet in 1995 – in other words: the next few years will show us what this 3D Internet can offer compared to the traditional Internet.

IBM joined other well known companies this friday by officially announcing its presence in Second Life. IBM has established a 12 island innovation complex that includes a welcome area (with a tour train), 3 auditoriums, greaterIBM‘s Virtual Connection Center, a SOA hub, a club house for the IBM virtual universe community, a campus, the mall of the future, and the House of Horizons project.

The Eightbar team has more on the launch – and so has greaterIBM.

The 12 island innovation complex includes a Circuit City shop. IBM has teamed up with Circuit City to “to explore how to apply virtual worlds and 3-D environments to retail business models” (as stated in the press release).

It is going to be very interesting to see what Second Life and virtual worlds in general can bring in the future.

Lotus Domino 8

Posted on December 9, 2006 by Per Henrik Lausten

The Lotus Domino 8 server will be released together with the Lotus Notes 8 client. Rob Ingram at the Domino Blog has details on what’s new in the upcoming Lotus Domino 8. Rob promises follow-on articles on the new features in Lotus Domino 8 so make sure to revisit the Domino Blog for these articles.

Lotusphere 2007 is planned to contain several sessions on Lotus Domino – especially sessions in track three on Planning and Managing Your Collaboration Infrastructure.