I was following Tom Duff’s post (and comments) on a Ray Ozzie post for other reasons
Tags :Domino 7
Instead of linking to Ray I will just link
to Tom
here. But I did grab this
topic I wanted to cover from the exact posting Tom was talking about.
Notes had just about
the simplest possible replication mechanism imaginable. After all,
we built it at Iris in 1985 for use on a 6Mhz 286-based IBM PC/AT with
incredibly slow-seeking 20MB drives. We were struggling with LIM
EMS trying to make effective use of more than 1MB of memory. Everything
about the design was about implementation simplicity and efficiency.
Besides understanding what Tom was saying
about not being able to actively comment back since he is saying he has
discussions (which I personally take to mean with MS people as I grabbed
maybe 6 or 7 links and saw no responses from Ray), I did find the idea
intriguing.
One trackback
posting made a quite simple and
decent comparison of the previous Pull technologies of RSS with
the proposed Pull Pull of SSE. But the initial spec has nothing
noted about security or master sources yet. But, my thought here
is that it will grow into that with Ray having input and his above statement
about Notes. With the moves into XML throughout Microsoft products,
enabling SSE ability is the first move into having replication in their
technologies over another standard. Instead of the proprietary Domino
replication abilities. The security and authorization has a long
way to go yet, have no fear.
If we take this like school, Ray is trying
to develop a new learning program on new standards and Lotus has had an
established college for 20 years that has grown around some very basic
roots of security, portability and simplified scalability.
The point of this posting is not how Lotus
does the replication, but the far reaching capabilities it has after years
of growth and enhancements. Then Ray floats an idea to base some
Microsoft work on emerging specs and the slower flocks will follow far
too soon. Take that last part and let it marinade some.
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On Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 by Chris Miller
