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The Future of Domino & Lotus Notes. As reported in the Lotus ‘NextGen’ Strategy sessions at industry events “Lotusphere Comes to You” & “IBM developerWorksLive!” (and other sources). Presented by Andy Foshee – Andy.Foshee@US.ABB.com Member of The Rogers Lane Websuite Development Team (ABB Inc.).
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The Future of Domino & Lotus Notes As reported in theLotus ‘NextGen’ Strategy sessions at industry events“Lotusphere Comes to You” & “IBM developerWorksLive!” (and other sources) Presented by Andy Foshee – Andy.Foshee@US.ABB.com Member of The Rogers Lane Websuite Development Team (ABB Inc.)
The “Why” behind IBM’s Design Changes • Business Trends • Globalization & extended teams • Reduction of travel budgets • Internet Business Models / “Internet Time” • Technology Trends • Maturation of Standards: HTTP, SMTP, LDAP, XML, Java • Adoption of new application architecture: J2EE & .Net • Emergence of viable Web Services • Collaborative Trends • eMail decisions effecting ever larger, diverse, and geographically dispersed enterprises • Market shift from collaborative computing to“Contextual Collaboration”
IBM’s “NextGen Strategy” “IBM/Lotus is engaged in a managed evolution of existing products, from freestanding infrastructure applications to mix and match capabilities that add collaborative power to J2EE/multi-tier applications.” Heyward Drummond, Chief Technologist - Solutions By Design II
But What About WebSphere Connectors? Have you heard about the code-du-jour? “Tags.” Over 90 of ‘em. Tag = Java-based bi-directional links connecting Domino (.NSF) design elements to J2EE-based applications.
IBM’s Promise • Did you know… • Lotus has sold 85,000,000 Lotus Notes ‘seats’ • Lotus Software has over 50,000 customers
K-Station has Merged w/ WebSphere Portal Integrated as Collaborative Window Portlets Easy method of integrating core collaborative features into any portal or portlet What about the other Lotus Software products? • QuickPlace 3.0 • Client: HTML & Java • Server: API – Java But that’s all I know!
IBM’s “Call to Action” – Customers • Build J2EE and Web services skills(JSP, Servlet, XML, WSDL, SOAP) • Adopt LDAP directory strategy • Upgrade to Notes and Domino 6(JSP Tag Library, Java Classes, XML, WebSphere integration, Systems management tools, RDB integration, LDAP, SoapConnect) • Design future solutions with integrated collaboration for optimal businessbenefits
IBM’s “Call to Action” – Developers • JSP • Servlets • XML • WSDL • SOAP • LDAP • WebSphere • etc…