Rob Ingram has posted two articles in a series on Domino 8 performance improvements on Domino Blog:
These are very interesting articles that provide insight into the new and improved features of the upcoming Lotus Domino 8.0 server.
Author Archives: Per Henrik Lausten
Lotus Notes 8: a demo and a white paper
From the latest developerWorks Lotus newsletter:
- View a demo of the upcoming Lotus Notes 8 to preview the new features such as the IBM productivity tools and an updated user interface.
- Read a white paper on the enhancements in Lotus Notes 8 and new capabilities
According to Ed the Lotus Notes/Domino 8 public beta 2 build is getting very close!
Push email and mobile synchronization for Domino
I have been on a project with the purpose of implementing “secure push email” that enables off-site users to access their Lotus Domino mail, calendar and address book using a mobile phone. This is achived using a product called Dynamic Mobile Exchange (DME) from a danish company called Excitor. DME acts as the client on the mobile phone and most importantly as a server in the DMZ that connects the mobile client with the internal Lotus Domino infrastructure. There is a short technical introduction to DME available.
The DME product is a competitor to the BlackBerry products such as the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino.
I was reminded of this product when reading a post by Budi Febrianto on Funambol: Open Source Domino Sync. The Funambol open source project looks very interesting and I would like to try it out. Funambol is both available as open source and as a commercial offering with differences in features.
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 released
Microsoft has just released the latest version of their free virtualization software – Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
Rational Tester for SOA open beta program
An open beta program for Rational Tester for SOA has been announced. Rational Tester for SOA enables you to
- Validate SOA system functionality and interoperability
- Ensure system performance
- Determine maximum system capacity
- Identify and resolve performance problems of SOA IT solutions
Rational Tester for SOA is powered by IBM Rational Performance Tester and the new IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA add-on component.
[Via Kelly – thanks!]
Lotusphere 2007 comes to you!
Once again Lotusphere comes to you and visits major cities all over the world – including Copenhagen on March 1st.
So for those who did not attend Lotusphere 2007 here is your chance to see and hear some of the highlights!
Update: looking for the 2008 Lotusphere comes to you?
Lotusphere in Second Life
Lotusphere 2007 starts this Sunday in Orlando, Florida. For those not attending the event (myself included) it is still possible to be part of Lotusphere by visiting the virtual Lotusphere in Second Life. Hopefully people attending and people not attending will drop by from time to time in the virtual Lotusphere.
Hope to see you there!
Several people have already dropped by – including Thomas Adrian.
2006 in review
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:
- Architectural patterns and Domino
- Lotus Domino and designing for accessibility
- getItemValueString and Domino 6.5.5 and 7.0
- Sorting a NotesDocumentCollection by multiple field values
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
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
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.