Lotusphere 2010: Notes/Domino developer news

January 18 2010

During Lotusphere 2010 today, we announced that, like other parts of IBM software, Lotus Domino will soon be available as a developer/test image on the Amazon EC2 web services cloud.  This service will be available through IBM developerWorks and makes a great complement to the newly-free Domino Designer application development tools.

It will be quite easy to get started with Domino on AWS.  A three-step process is all that is needed to spin up the image.

In the Notes/Domino mini-keynote, I'm also highlighting Group Software's new "Group Live Platform-as-a-service".  GROUP Live makes it easy for Domino ISVs to provision, deploy, and manage Domino apps without having to install/spin up new Domino servers.

Combine the two and it's never been easier to be a Notes/Domino developer.

Ed Brill | | Lotusphere 2010 | Orlando, FL USA Category: Add/View Comments [14]

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  1. 1  Mike Brown http://www.browniesblog.com | 1/18/2010 1:36:01 PM

    Nice one, Ed!

    Any word on pricing for Domino on EC2?

  1. 2  Shashikanth Reddy  | 1/19/2010 4:21:30 AM

    As its only for development, it should be free. So we can have more interest in developing diff kind of applications and host it on web for others.

  1. 3  Mike Brown http://www.browniesblog.com | 1/19/2010 5:04:11 AM

    @ 2

    I doubt that it will be free because no EC2 services are. Amazon has to make *its* money, after all.

    It would be nice if IBM didn't add any extra costs on top though, especially because it's a developer/test thing, as you say.

  1. 4  Bram Withaar http://www.e-office.com | 1/19/2010 11:29:46 AM

    a overview of the currently available IBM ec2 images can be found here: { Link }

    Some are only the Amazon costs, some cost more. For some images you can also bring your own, existing, product licenses.

    It's a really great move for first-time or incidental xpage developers

  1. 5  Kerr  | 1/19/2010 6:22:30 PM

    Wow, this is great news!

  1. 6  Tripp Black http://www.mindwatering.com | 1/25/2010 5:58:34 PM

    Even not free, it's still great news. Not to forget, if they are interested in running Lotus Domino in-house, there's still the 90-day trial. Nothing lost, more gained. :-)

  1. 7  Mike Brown http://www.browniesblog.com | 2/20/2010 2:25:44 AM

    Where are we this, Ed?

    No sign of Domino on the list if IBM AMI's for Amazon EC2:

    { Link }

  1. 8  Mike Brown http://www.browniesblog.com | 2/20/2010 2:26:20 AM

    "Where are with *with* this", I meant to say.

  1. 9  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/22/2010 10:41:22 AM

    We're still moving forward, it's only been three weeks since we announced the plan :-)

  1. 10  Charles Robinson http://www.cubert.net | 2/22/2010 12:09:49 PM

    Can you give us any better timeframe than "soon"? That's highly subjective, because to me three weeks is "later".

  1. 11  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/22/2010 4:49:03 PM

    no. We are working through a bunch of process stuff right now. We announced it at Lotusphere because we wanted to state direction, but other than "sometime in the next six months" I can't be more specific.

  1. 12  Charles Robinson http://www.cubert.net | 2/23/2010 7:20:28 AM

    Okay, that's more than I knew previously since there was no timeframe at all mentioned. Now you've managed the expectation. :-)

  1. 13  Mike Brown http://www.browniesblog.com | 3/30/2010 8:54:27 PM

    Looks like there's been some movement here:

    { Link }

    I've checked, and a Domino AMI image now shows up in the Launch Instance dialog of the AWS console. I've not tried to use it yet though.

  1. 14  Turtle  | 9/8/2010 2:14:33 PM

    FWIW, Amazon's IBM-on-EC2 pricing chart still doesn't list Domino (though it seems to have grown a bit with other products since February).