On a webcast watched live by 2000 people, earlier today, IBM announced a plan for a public beta of IBM Notes/Domino 9.0 Social Edition. The beta is expected to be available on December 14, and you can register for the beta today via http://bit.ly/ND9BETA .
If you were unable to join us for the webcast, a replay will be available starting tomorrow morning via On24.
Notes/Domino Social Edition was first unveiled at Lotusphere 2012, and has been in development for more than a year. We decided to release a public beta, the first in a long time for Notes/Domino, because of the importance of the release. That was also the consideration that lead to putting the 9.0 version number on the beta, rather than the 8.5.4 we have previously announced.
The plan for Notes/Domino Social Edition calls for availability in Q1 2013, subject to change and all the usual disclaimers.
The decision to call Social Edition beta "9.0" is the right one, but leads to some questions. Yes, there will still be an 8.5.4 maintenance release, with no new features, sometime in 2013. A "dot zero" release is legendary in the IT industry as being the one you play with, waiting for a bug fix release. Except that the DNA of this release is what we have been building as 8.5.4, and carries with that all the stability and reliability of the 8.5 codestream. The 9.0 beta will show that though there are many new features, they are built upon the same solid architecture as the entire 8.5 series. We want you to deploy the dot zero, and we will stand behind it with every confidence.
A version number increment is designed to do several things: create buzz in the market, including awareness from the industry press and analysts who might not pay attention to a "mod" point release; convey vendor confidence in the product and its value; indicate longevity of the product; and signal the delta in new features and capabilities. Thus, it only makes sense to call a version that adds embedded experiences, a modernized user interface, new mail and calendar features, the Notes browser plug-in, SAML support, Traveler support for Windows Phone 7.5/8.0 devices and on the IBM i operating system, new XPages features, and more.... 9.0.
The same message of confidence is why this beta is also the point where Notes/Domino will join other IBM software solutions in sporting only the IBM brand--the second-most valuable brand in the world. It's also why we showed a roadmap for the next three years in the community broadcast section of today's event, and have indicated that the 8.5 release will be supported through at least 2016.
There were many other topics discussed on the call, including plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Lotusphere at IBM Connect 2013. Thank you to Eric Petersen of the Salvation Army, Lance Spellman of Workflow Studios, Daniel Lieber of IIUI, and Bruce Elgort of Elguiji for their contributions to today's announcements.
There were over 200 questions submitted during the webcast and community call. We will post answers to them either in the IBM Collaboration Solutions community area on Greenhouse, or here on my blog. Additional videos of Notes/Domino 9 Social Edition beta will be posted to YouTube and other channels soon as well. And in 30 days, you'll get to check it out first-hand.
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Stuart McIntyre http://collaborationmatters.com | 11/13/2012 1:58:55 PM
Ed, great announcement. I'm thrilled by the decisions to go with the version 9 moniker and to drop the Lotus branding for what has been the core product in the ICS portfolio over the past 20 years.
There is so much in Social Edition to be excited about that badging it as 8.5.4 would not have done it justice. I hope IBM raises the rafters about just how good this new release is, and about how it so effectively bridges the gap between traditional email and social computing.
At the same time, no matter how much we have all loved the Lotus brand, the yellow, the history of Lotus Software, it would have been a travesty if this new release had been left in a brand with no future. IBM Notes, IBM iNotes, IBM Domino and IBM Traveler - they all sound awesome.
Tough decisions. Right decisions. Great job, IBM!
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Wolfgang Meixner http://www.edcom.de | 11/13/2012 2:16:38 PM
Lotus is gone, welcome ND9. Pretty cool look and congrats to that decision!
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Andy Steven http://www.organisedit.com | 11/13/2012 4:28:51 PM
screen shots? please may the workspace be gone.. LOL. Sounds exciting.
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Alan Head | 11/13/2012 4:59:28 PM
@4 I saw a Workspace link in one of the screenshots :-)
There's a 15 min demo in the recording which will be available tomorrow.
Excited by this release and the public beta.
Wondering if client will be skinnable find it a little austere at present.
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Murray Sinclair http://www.kworks.co.nz | 11/13/2012 7:35:52 PM
Very excited about this release. There is actually a certain feeling of relief that it's now IBM Notes. The "Lotus" name has a wonderful legacy but it has run its course (and has overstayed it's welcome somewhat). I totally agree with it being v9 (and not 8.something) and all the positive impacts of that.
Looking forward to going through the list of new enhancements and features.
Well done Ed and the team at Lotus, er I mean IBM, Notes.
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David Hablewitz http://thenotesguyinseattle.com | 11/13/2012 8:40:06 PM
Version numbers and brand names are a lot like the wrapping paper on a package. Some people (and some companies) really fret over if their wrapping paper is the same as everyone else'.
Then there are those who recognize that it's what's in the package that matters most. Whatever you want to call it, I expect this version to even further distance Notes from the rest of the industry. I'm looking forward to the competitive advantage this version is going to give to my customers over their competition who use "the same old, same old."
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Lars Olufsen | 11/14/2012 2:51:02 AM
Awesome announcement, and great to hear the attendance numbers topped 2000. Shows a great deal of interest in the platform still!!
When you say that the 9.0 release is based on the same solid architecture as the 8.5 series, does that mean, that the upgrade path resembles a maintenance release for 8.5, or should we still treat this a "dot zero" when planning our upgrade?
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Paul Hudson | 11/14/2012 4:25:11 AM
So if this is based on the existing 8.5.x platform does that mean all existing platforms are supported? In our case that means Solaris?
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Michael Glaser http://www.f-i.de | 11/14/2012 5:04:13 AM
Big announcement yesterday !!!
Some Questions about the notesbrowserplugin (nbp)
- is saml supported
- which browserplattforms are support
- will we get rid off notes local configurationsfiles (using NBP and inotes should be webonly)
- will there a migrations path from old fashion notes basic client to inotes/nbp usage
Another question - hopefully there no new datapath location coming up with ibm notes 9 !!! we have spend much money migrating from notes8 to notes85 on a multiuser citrix envirnonment and changing the data path to Lotus\Notes\Data ...
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Frederic Block http://www.easi.net | 11/14/2012 6:26:11 AM
Very glad to hear all those new functionalities and look&feel changes will not be a 8.5.4.
Most customers would be seeing a 8.5.4 as a minor release -regardless of what's new in it-, making it easier to upgrade to... but, on the other hand, given the feeling Notes/Domino are not really evolving...
...and personally, I prefer discussing about why upgrade to a new main version than keeping explaining that Notes/Domino si evolving even it is not something to be seen in release numbering...
Now, I would not like to move to the other extent where product change main version number every 2 months, like Chrome of Firefox are doing...
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Dan King | 11/14/2012 6:37:33 AM
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but are the embedded experiences available in the Notes client as well as iNotes? The demo showed them specifically in iNotes rather than the client
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Alexey Zimarev http://zimarev.com | 11/14/2012 6:48:55 AM
It was also announced that we get some additions to 8.5.3 today and some date later in November. Could Ed or someone else elaborate a bit more about it?
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Paul Hudson | 11/14/2012 9:18:30 AM
Hi Ed,
Thanks for your reply. If you have a minute, can you clarify the Solaris answer? The beta doesn't support Solaris, I can understand why you would take this decision and I believe that has been the case in the past. But does the release version support Solaris? The advice last year from the product developers was that Domino Next would almost certainly drop support for Solaris and that we should plan a long term move away from Solaris (and you've effectively hinted at this for several years). I can understand why you would want to do this. But as 8.5.4 (Social) was originally part of the 8.5.x development plan, we have been planning developments around the new functionality. 8.5.4 with Social addins would have kept us going until the University reviews it's server infrastructure. So to have the EOL brought forward would be a massive blow to our plans.
Thanks
Paul
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Sriram http://twitter.com/tsriram | 11/14/2012 10:30:46 AM
Great announcements and looking forward to test the beta version. Will it be of any use if I test only the Notes client when I sign up for beta? Or the Domino server needs to be installed?
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Paul Hudson | 11/14/2012 10:42:04 AM
Very disappointing. But thanks for the information.
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sitaram | 11/14/2012 10:52:56 AM
Why do all the screen shots still show "IBM Lotus Notes" or "IBM Lotus iNotes" , even though the product is going to be called "IBM Notes" ?
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sitaram | 11/14/2012 10:54:01 AM
update : here is the link where I saw the screenshots,
{ Link }
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Leif Lagebrand | 11/14/2012 2:37:05 PM
On the TLCC webinar today we found that neither Social Business Toolkit, SBT, nor the Social Enabler is part of Domino 9 Social Edition. Aren't Facebook and Conenctions a natural part of a social product?
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Andy Steven http://www.organisedit.com | 11/14/2012 3:23:29 PM
Sorry, I'm little bit under whelmed by the demo.
Care factor zero for being able to run old notes apps, not going to interest new clients.
Mail just looks a bit re-skinned.
I can't believe they made a fuss of having drag and drop.
Disappointing demo.
Had the chance to make it really cool and out there..
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Michael | 11/14/2012 3:27:45 PM
Will the upgrade pack for Traveler you mention in @14 include connectivity for Windows Phone 8, or will that come with the final release of 9.0?
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Christian Herø | 11/14/2012 3:51:19 PM
Hi
How does Notes 9 SE fit in with WAS and Connections. N9SE offers activity stream and embedded experience. Will this cut into the possible connections customer base? Will existing Domino Notes user skip a Connections Rollout because N9SE is enough, No need to install a WAS platform as well. The question is: wills this release will undermine Connections in any way. The demo says alot about embedded experience but not much on how to grab and present data from external sources into activity streams. Some toolkit on the way?
Exitied but also confused.. :-)
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Amar Trivedi http://www.mrsocial1.blogspot.com | 11/14/2012 4:40:19 PM
Yes! The IBM brand is stronger than Lotus. Strategically sound marketing decision. Makes business sense at all branding levels (product/ corporate/ employer).
Kudos Ed and team. If I may: This branding trend should become best practice. There's a social media story right there... of a large global tech giant that believes in and backs its own brand.
Btw, I concur with this global brand study : { Link }
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Christian Herø | 11/14/2012 4:58:37 PM
Ok so the stream thing we saw in the demo (not called activiy stream) is actually a Connections service? Bruce Elgort mentioned in the breakout session that we have all this embedded experience and activity stream on a Domino Server per se. Am i missing some thing here? Does Notes 9 SE without WAS / Connections and /or Apache become 'not so social' after all? IT comes down to what software stack beyond Domino itself is needed to actually get N9SE really Social. The webcast yesterday was not very clear about that.
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Steve Pitcher http://www.stevencpitcher.com | 11/14/2012 5:15:00 PM
Hi Ed,
Can you expand a little on how Traveler will interface with Blackberry 10?
Thanks.
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Mark Lepisto http://www.aerospace.org/ | 11/14/2012 6:49:08 PM
Hi Ed,
Seeing Calendar Category Colors finally supported made me high five everyone in sight. I can destroy about 10 pages of custom mail template modifications I have had to maintain through all the releases since R5. And it'll work in iNotes finally! If I see you or Scott Souder anywhere near a bar at Connect 2013 the drinks are on me. If 'Listening to your Customers' were a metric IDC reported on, IBM would be #1 in the market, that's for sure.
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Steve Pitcher http://www.stevencpitcher.com | 11/14/2012 7:51:54 PM
What I mean is, on one slide it mentioned BES. I'm assuming that you folks will allow Blackberry 10 OS devices to be served by Traveler with no need for a BES. Is that the case?
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Pete | 11/14/2012 8:00:58 PM
Public beta.. geez, should have done that releases ago. At least IBM is learning.
IBM Notes - great idea on dropping Lotus (long overdue)
Hopefully it has email 101 features like in-place calendar entries which Outlook has had for many releases.
To gain any marketshare, esp. against Outlook/Exchange but more significantly against cloud providers, hopefully IBM's looking to do something different like amazing pay as you go options rather than traditional license models (license + S&S). Price is probably the only thing now that would sway any large #'s of CIO's back to Notes...
Pete
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Andy Steven http://www.ajspook.com | 11/15/2012 2:29:12 AM
@26, yes Ed. Sorry for being negative,
<rant>
I am frustrated, you guys have a product that every micro business is screaming for, but you guys can't see the wood for all the trees.
Business with 15-50 employees (my market) work much differently to big business. Only today I went to a potential new client that has a cobbled together M$ Access DB that uses a host of scripts to get an end result I could get together in 1 or 2 hours using Notes. Their current bill is $10K for this absolutely, excuse the French, shit system. Not to mention how easy it is to get email into a DB, that is such a powerful feature that other systems and companies don't even recognise as a problem. It is the biggest problem people have today, if only they knew.
Here in Adelaide, 1 million plus people, I am the only guy who does Notes, yes only me, oh and Mike! I think there might be the occasional ISW fly in as well, I've seen the odd twitter post announcing their arrival at our fine airport. So selling a new site is pretty much impossible. Only 4 or 5 companies in Adelaide are on Notes now. Me versus 1000+ MS salesman. Easier pastures selling SBS I'm afraid, god I hate SBS but it pays for my trips to the Amalfi coast so I tow the SBS line.
The backend is so awesome, and Xpages combined with something like Bootstrap is just damn impressive, but to get a solution over the line you have to sell them Notes mail. Too hard. I need help.
I'll reserve my judgement until I actually see the BETA, but it looks like all the cool feature need Connections, out of budget for 15-50 type places. I currently have a subscription for lotuslive, but once again the cool features, .e.g iphone (who every one has) doesn't hook into the cool activity features that show up in the app store help menu.
With Xpages, you could really transform email, hook into some DB's activity DB's etc, totally change the look and feel, in fact you could kill email, get rid of it. It would be trivial to make some new templates that totally change the way people work. Why don't you get some junoir progammer to spend six months fiddling? Oh and make sure they have a good I for usability and visual design. Call me if you want.
I need to ask a question do the IBM Lotus guys actually understand why Notes is so freaking awesome? I really don't think they do.
Next time your down under, I'll buy you a coopers pale and get in your ear.
</rant>
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Alan Head | 11/15/2012 3:07:32 AM
@29
As I understand it BB OS10 devices can just use Activesync and don't need a BES in in the equation? I'm guessing that's how they're even able to offer Traveler support for them.
Given that the way forward for existing BES installs (and particularly BES Express) is a little muddy in the OS10 world having Traveler support is a big plus. As a business we have around 300 BB users, versus 50 or so iOS users. Being able to eventually put them all in the same "MDMlite" solution is a huge plus, as is hopefully enabling the BB10 users to self-provision. Just need to see what a BB10 Curve will look like (and what price it comes in at) For all the awesomeness of BES it is pain to provision devices.
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axel | 11/15/2012 5:15:17 AM
When I read that kind of heart-breaking post from Andy Steven.
If IBM were trying to put into practice their social ideas, they would dedicate a manager to communicate those SMB/Cloud strategies. Someone who honestly monitors competition from google, jboss, microsoft, etc. and really put all his energies in this special niche market for IBM in an overall more and more fragmenting overall IT market.
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Henning Heinz | 11/15/2012 1:54:54 PM
Now you won't get me too exited about Notes 9 (I'm just too social agnostic) but the "show" is much better this time and many people seem to like it.
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axel | 11/15/2012 4:11:04 PM
you bought that Domino thing as an Enterprise Application Platform back in 1999, but now for something completly different: You can use it as the backbone to revolutionize your communication inside the company, with suppliers and customers.
Good luck!
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Bryan Tsunoda | 11/15/2012 10:42:36 PM
Outstanding announcement to reinforce IBM's commitment to Notes/Domino. Videos on the embedded experience will help customers in the decision to upgrade.
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Volker Weber http://vowe.net/ | 11/16/2012 6:24:29 AM
Steve, this is how BlackBerry 10 works with Domino: { Link }
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Alan http://tapsocial.kiloran.com | 11/16/2012 6:28:07 AM
I hope Embedded Experiences for workflow apps is going to be a bit of a killer feature. We've chipped around the edges for a few years (live text, widgets, Alloy, composite apps, mashups, etc.) but being able to surface any workflow action in the mail context offers great usability. I see it being akin to the way that social actions (likes, follows, comments, etc.) make most sense (and get most usage) on mobile devices.
Keen to see what's involved in getting a traditional Notes workflow app to use embedded experiences.
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nicolas | 11/16/2012 10:08:56 AM
Compatibility with Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) ?
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Raj Patil https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/rajpatil/?lang=en | 11/16/2012 10:37:00 AM
@10 - Michael, trying to answer some of your questions...About the notes Browser Plug-in (NBP)
- which browserplattforms are support (for 9, it's Windows only, and Firefox version 12 & higher, IE8 and higher)
- will we get rid off notes local configurationsfiles (using NBP and inotes should be webonly) (NBP will require a small subset of local notes components... how else can we have your existing apps work without any redesign?) So you do have local config, but it's minimal. Checkout my blog for more info.
- will there a migrations path from old fashion notes basic client to inotes/nbp usage ---- the NBP installer will migrate all of your existing data. I doubt you need anything to switch to inotes since it's MAIL only and all of it lives on the server.
Another question - hopefully there no new datapath location coming up with ibm notes 9 !!! we have spend much money migrating from notes8 to notes85 on a multiuser citrix envirnonment and changing the data path to Lotus\Notes\Data --- NO YOUr custom data path can continue as is....
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Anil Ghatage | 11/16/2012 2:58:11 PM
Simply awesome..glad to see IBM commitment towards Lotus domino platform.
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Chad | 11/19/2012 7:01:55 AM
What about speed? That is the biggest complaint, startup speed and validation/refresh speed. If the client still takes 5-10 minutes on a reasonable machine to fully start (not just show my workspace, but be usable) you already have set the user for a bad experience. This memory footprint of almost 300+ MB is also too much. I don't know of any business that just runs Windows and Notes; how much memory do you think businesses are putting on a CSA or secretary machine?
Also server validation is good for security, but there should be client validation first, then a FULL submit to the server in the client. This one field at a time validation causes so much lag it isn't even funny. Sure XPages can do this, but your "old" customers, like us, can't take hundreds of existing apps over to XPages and still keep up with business as normal. As for the "social" aspects, I don't see any real end user in an average company actually being responsible enough with it to be worth while.
The best thing that came out that presentation was the web stuff, and embedded experiences. @26 - If we actually need an apache setup for embedded experiences, epic fail. Notes should be doing this by itself. Also if the web client hogs memory and runs as slow or slower than the installed client, fail there as well. I say this as it still needs the standard license and a windows box for web, but the client isn't that hard of a basic install and it already approved technology in existing IT houses.
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Chad | 11/20/2012 6:41:07 AM
@49 Embedded Experiences. Have you worked in IT before? Getting new technology approved is such a hassle. The chances of getting a Notes upgrade to get these features would be likely, but the chances of getting a new technology approved anytime soon is not likely (especially if Shindig is just to "help" Notes with a feature). I work in a company with over 6,000 employees, not some "let's just install it" shop. We have many projects that are all competing for review/resources on tech that is already installed in house and even getting XPages approved is taking me more than a year. I'm not trying to be negative here, but embedded was the one thing in the presentation that I saw I might be able to leverage. I am trying to say if in some future version you are able to integrate that into true Notes functionality it would be useful (i.e. why isn't Notes handling the rendering of the gadgets). Having to install something else means that it isn't Notes functionality. That is like saying basic HTML has e-mail functionality because it can send a request to an e-mail program to process the request.
I am not going to go into the speed of the client. I'll just say startup aside (although I have tested every speed setting) it is the lag for refreshes and validation that most often kill the experience for the end user.
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Bill Loss http://nysenate.gov | 11/20/2012 8:16:14 AM
Hey Ed, we've implemented the HA Cluster for Traveler, but we're confused how to implement the SSL Certificate process, two servers with the load balancer, both servers think they are traveler.senate.state.ny.us though one is really traveler1 the other traveler2 -- doesn't seem to be much documentation on this topic, can you help ?
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francie tanner http://www.panagenda.com | 11/21/2012 10:43:06 AM
@49 We more than get your "performance" issue and presented on this topic at this year's Lotusphere. We also have a free tool to help analyze your performance issues, ping me if you're interested.
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David Brown | 11/21/2012 4:11:44 PM
Great news on this release being Notes 9 - I think that reinforces that there is still a commitment behind the product.... but.. having been running the beta the stops need to be pulled out.. there are still too many issues, many cosmetic, which shows a bit of a lack of focus, after all success is in the detail sas much as the headline new features... so please get this release polished and get the new UI looking a bit better and update the base templates too to match the new UI completely, otherwise it looks a bit half hearted.
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David Brown | 11/21/2012 4:13:34 PM
@48 from my experience of the speed, we encountered ppor startup performance and traced it to over zealous AV which was scanning all the jar files as they were called into use, so we got an exclusion in place for the Notes directory.. and bingo, performance much improved in an instant.
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Christian Herø http://snillhund.blogspot.com | 11/22/2012 5:12:50 AM
@54 We must wait and see. Hope for a full makeover of the supplied templates, or else one would feel back to grand old design as soon as one uses these templates.
If there is no changes to these templates then I believe that they are included just for backward compability and not intended to be used by new customers.
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Himanshu Soni http://in.linkedin.com/in/himanshusoni | 11/23/2012 4:43:51 AM
Hello Ed,
Thanks for replying to my suggestions/questions in one of your last posts with this post! Let's see where my checklists stands now:
News on Domino "9" - Check
Clutter-free interface - Check
Beta/preview version - Check
I'm a happy person now! Waiting to get my hands on the public beta version.
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Yi Zhou | 11/25/2012 7:03:02 AM
1. When will IBM Domino 9 release? Q1 of next year?
2. What is the platform support spec of Domino 9? The same as Domino 8.5.3?
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Piyush Mathur | 11/25/2012 11:59:34 PM
Cool.. Just went through the Webcast..Notes/Domino Social, some really cool development on the iNotes..
Though a little upset on dropping of "Lotus".. but none the less as long as it is good for the product..
Cheers..
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Jonathan Griep http://www.notesconnectors.com | 11/26/2012 2:24:23 PM
Hi Ed,
Looking forward to Notes 9! Will there be support for Windows 8 in either the Beta or the release version? We are seeing interest from users for Notes on Windows 8.
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Alex Heller http://helmi99.blogspot.com | 11/27/2012 1:17:59 AM
Hi Ed,
i just have one question:
Can i sign into the beta program without being called every week from an IBM responsible ? :-)
I mean, is that a real open public beta where everybody who signed in can install the ND9 ?
Cheers
alex
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Chad | 11/27/2012 2:01:52 PM
@55 - that sounds like it could be our startup issue, and with a recent infection on our network I doubt they will scale back.
What that doesn't explain though is the severe lag in network communications. I am guessing there is no client validation so each field individually validates itself. It should have a client side check, then full submit to server for final validation/security. That is how I build all my applications (outside of Notes databases).
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Alex Heller http://helmi99.blogspot.com | 11/28/2012 6:18:18 AM
Hi Ed,
thanks for response. My question was more if an IBM responsible will call us every week and ask what's going on? We have no problems to test it ( and would like to ) and to inform the IBM how everything is running.
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Suzie L. Murphy | 11/28/2012 4:51:57 PM
Very exciting times; can't wait to participate in the beta in Dec. Great timing with our 20th anniversary at Lotusphere/Connect 2013
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Dimitris Beletsiotis | 11/30/2012 2:43:43 AM
Hi Ed,
Any news about removing the 64GB limit for .nsf?
There were a lot of requests for this when following posted.
{ Link }
I see that 64-bit linux will be supported which is good.
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Leandro | 11/30/2012 12:44:59 PM
Hi, Ed.
Are we going to have some sort of pruning for log.nsf db, similar as the Console Log Mirroring ?
It's amazing that this has not been implemented in all these years, and that we still need to stop the Domino server to "reduce" the size of the log.nsf...
thanks.
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Anantha | 12/4/2012 8:09:27 PM
The comments section is too long for me to weed through and cobble together the info. All my questions pertain to the Traveler aspect of the release. Can you tell us:
- Which version of ActiveSync will be supported/certified?
- Is it full EAS protocol support or a subset like the earlier releases?
- Will you support the encryption aspects EAS? How about other attributes like: don't copy, forward, ...
- Will Windows 8 RT& Pro (not to be confused with WinPhone 8) native mail clients work with your EAS implementation?
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David Brown | 12/11/2012 4:27:13 PM
Roll on Friday for the full 9.0 beta.. liking what I have experienced so far.. just hope the GA release is on target for early in the new year as I have a 10k user rollout awaiting it!
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Andrew | 12/26/2012 5:44:45 AM
Just tried ND9 - feel really cool about it!! ) Looking forward for the production (not Beta) release!
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Colin Tucker http://www.voicerite.com | 12/31/2012 2:14:13 PM
Hi, I don't have a Mac OSX test system to hand so was wondering if anyone knew whether on Mac OSX the installation directory remains /Applications/Lotus Notes.app or have they moved it to /Applications/IBM Notes.app ?
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Rob Bush | 1/8/2013 5:17:04 PM
Please support Win8 RT & Pro native mail client. We are trying to move off of dumb iPad's on to Win8 tablet devices because it offers WAY more management and options. Only thing holding us back is inability to sync mail with native mail app in Win8.
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Jeoff Wilks http://jeoftp.blogspot.com | 3/8/2013 9:27:52 AM
@Colin, yes, my Notes 9 mac install did land in /Applications/IBM Notes.app
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Steve Thacker | 4/10/2013 1:09:12 PM
Domino / Lotus notes is dead and gone.
IBM murdered it like they do everything else. They pretty much allowed MS to come into companies and kick LN out the door. I have personally seen and heard too many discussions of IBM coming in and acting all arrogant. Not willing to work with companies on licensing and other issues and MS walks in and the conversion is started.
I have been a Sr.Domino admin since the early to mid 90s. I bled blue if you cut me open I was so dedicated
I travel 100% extensively throughout the US supporting the few Notes shops still in existence. I worked on the largest migration from Notes to Exchange known with JPMC. Today that is all I do. I help companies migrate. As IBM basically shot all of us admins and developers in the head. We supported their software and continued our educations in it. What did we get for our trouble? Why we were set adrift by the big blue. So, it is now a little too late for anyone upgrading Domino to 9 or whatever version. Companies are converting at a alarming rate. I know as my work has dwindled to nothing like it used to be.
Domino is a dead software boys and girls. It was the greatest while it lasted. Throw a shovel of dirt on it and put a flower.
Strange feeling that Notes 9 announcement stays without comment.
I put the first one ;-)