Ed Brill

Interview with Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of messaging development, Lotus:

There was little mention of Domino 7 at the general session. Why?
Cavanaugh: That's because a huge amount of what we're doing in Domino 7 is server oriented. The real answer is we struggled with how to make it persuasive in a stage presentation. In our Domino 7 session [at Lotusphere], we demonstrated Designer 7 and talked about how we would [support] DB2 apps in Domino 7 and showed client pieces in Domino 7. The features are around performance, and we're looking at 75% server CPU utilization improvements [and] 50% scalability gains. There are domain-wide admin pieces that haven't been brought into that environment. We have the option to host NSF data in DB2, and Domino applications can be separate from their data servers. Each year, you leave things out [of a presentation], and people read more into it than they should. Domino 7 is the next major deliverable we're working on.