Reviewing the 4/4/06 TechTalk on Upcoming IBM Lotus Domino Features and Futures
This (thank goodness) was not a huge set of slides, but covered some important information (thanks to Alan for pointing out this was one I missed). So here is what I thought about the slides:
- I liked the fact that Hannover will be supported for SmartUpgrade. Of course, I have to ask why it wouldn't be, but I like that.
- Suranas (as in Super User Run As) is coming faster than I thought so you can deploy seamless upgrades with the users not having administrator access to their machine. Some little slide noted that it might be a separate download sooner than full rollout.
- 64 bit. Yes, but 32 bit under 64 at first to set the doorway to buy 64 bit based hardware for future releases.
- Resilient threaded views - hot damn. If you are like me I don't keep all the mail from a thread around. It is clutter as much of the material is replied with history again and again. Resilient threaded views takes care of this issue. I am certainly looking forward to some better productivity here.
- Policies to continue on to Hannover and provisioning for Workplace? I love this but have one giant question. Can we fix everything about policies first before adding in a whole new product line? Serious
- Portals, portlets, cutlets, pork choplets. Merge, grind and make a pate' I say. Portal and Domino together? Darn right. No more to say, you knew it was coming
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- Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) - well IBM becomes a new player in supporting this initiative. I like anything to make mail more controlled. A few enhancements with whitelist/blacklisting tossed in and we are getting somewhere. Oh yeah, don't let the smooth taste of integrated SpamGuru fool you
- Policy control of users inbox sizes? Let me repeat, policy control of users inbox sizes? Let administrators manage them automatically? Now that is one I love but I can see a line at the door. Users already blame us when they accidentally click View Unread, what happens when we really do do something to their mail
- Support for Microsoft TNEF. Huge for coexistence shops. Marketing spin here we come. Hi this your friendly Microsoft rep. See, even Lotus recognizes us as a leader in non-MIME compliancy and is moving to TNEF
- Message recall ability directly tied to policies that allow the behavior. How about off? You cant recall a voicemail you leave at someone home
- Adminp performance enhancements, woo hoo. Faster name changes too
- Some tossed in DDM enhancements, not sure of the granularity, but there is room to grow and make this area huge
- Manage client bookmarks? huge I say, huge
- New web services for administration calls and more open API's for the admin side. That means better and more third party vendor products for admins
- IBM Integrated Solutions Console. A long way of saying Webadmin through Portal.
- Wizards for directory integration, better LDAP
- Tighter integration with the Tivoli Directory Integrator? That could be a huge bonus and win win win. My vote says yes, do this.
- OK, this one is so big that is was the show stopper for some sites. Move Notes users to another LDAP directory? yes, that is a posting in itself, more thoughts here later
- Does Domino.Next have scalability/parity issues as compared to Domino7/Hannover? Hmmm.
- Streaming Cluster Replication was introduced to assist in gaining performance on replications. Rolling that into self-managed threads makes perfect sense to me in the full product.
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On Thursday, April 6th, 2006 by Chris Miller
