The other shoe falls (in a good way) for Domino Express

March 22 2011

As with every Tuesday, this morning we find new channel announcements from IBM, today's including another announcement around Domino Express licensing.

In December, when I announced that we were adding clustering to Domino Collaboration Express, the response was "yeah, but" and y'all went on to ask about the other restrictions on Express. Well, those are all going away now, too, with today's announcement:

The following additional capabilities are provided:

Extended Access Control Lists
Cascading directories
Directory catalogs
Directory assistance
Central directory (userless Name and Address Book)
You won't see this all spelled out in the product software license agreement until the next version of Domino ships, but as IBM have not announced a ship date for the 8.5.3 release, I asked my team to work the system and get this change out sooner. We are also updating the Domino Express licensing FAQs, so watch for the changes there as well.

Yes, there is still plenty of work to do on Notes/Domino licensing; as I've promised, the license agreement itself will get a lot simpler with 8.5.3.
(Updated 4:28 PM CET 22-Mar with link)

Ed Brill | Wien, Österreich Category:  notesdomino lotusnotes 8.5 lotus  Add/View Comments [35]

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  1. 1  Richard Moy http://www.dominointerface.com | 3/21/2011 6:28:02 PM

    Ed,

    Thanks very much for getting this done.

  1. 2  Carlos Casas http://LotusRocks.tumblr.com | 3/21/2011 7:40:26 PM

    Ed,

    good news, thanks!

  1. 3  Keith Brooks http://blog.vanessabrooks.com | 3/21/2011 9:07:55 PM

    Well Done!

  1. 4  John Stockbridge http://www.brookstone.com.au | 3/21/2011 10:04:52 PM

    Excellent news. Aussie users will sing your praises :-)

  1. 5  Dave Harris http://www.wavysworld.com | 3/21/2011 10:06:09 PM

    This really is great news, Ed, thank you very much

  1. 6  Tripp Black http://www.mindwatering.com | 3/21/2011 10:38:48 PM

    Hi Ed.

    You indicated anonymous web sites in an earlier post. Thanks very much. The DA, the DirCat, clustering, and anonymous web sites make Domino a much clearer "The Choice" now.

  1. 7  David (The Notes Guy in Seattle) http:/blog.thenotesguyinseattle.com | 3/22/2011 1:26:38 AM

    You just made one of my client's day a bit brighter. Which means a lot here in Seattle.

  1. 8  Stuart McIntyre http://blog.collaborationmatters.com | 3/22/2011 1:50:49 AM

    Great news Ed, thanks for listening (and acting).

    For clarification, should we expect to see an announcement letter for this change, or will that not come until 8.5.3 is released?

  1. 9  Sean Cull http://www.seancull.co.uk | 3/22/2011 2:50:13 AM

    Thanks Ed

  1. 10  John Foldager http://www.johnfoldager.com | 3/22/2011 3:18:58 AM

    @Ed Thanks for listening!!! :o)

    @6 I agree... we'll probably have to wait for the 8.5.3 release to see how this works out.

  1. 11  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 3/22/2011 3:42:28 AM

    @8 should have been up today, but I don't see it yet here in Europe. I've asked my team in the US to let me know the status when they come online.

  1. 12  Norm Van Bergen  | 3/22/2011 5:09:13 AM

    Excellent news, Ed. Thanks for making this possible!

  1. 13  Werner Motzet  | 3/22/2011 6:04:36 AM

    Thanks Ed

    In Germany we say "one man, one word" (Trustworthiness and integrity).

  1. 14  Michael Kobrowski  | 3/22/2011 6:57:04 AM

    Very good!

    More of the same please! :)

    Especially the "the license agreement itself will get a lot simpler" part ;-)

  1. 15  Dave Harris http://www.wavysworld.com | 3/22/2011 7:39:50 AM

    @8 THe US announcement is here { Link }

  1. 16  Andreas Schmidt http://www.vsb.de/ | 3/22/2011 7:43:02 AM

    That's great news, thanks! I will share this value add immediately with our customers and prospects!

  1. 17  Phil Salm  | 3/22/2011 8:03:01 AM

    Excellent, thank you, Ed! This has been very well received with customers.

  1. 18  David Marko http://blog.tcl-digitrade.com | 3/22/2011 8:05:01 AM

    What about anonymous access to HTTP server? Is it still forbiden in Express licencing? What is the option for customer to run anonymous web when using Domino Express licences?

    Thank you.

  1. 19  Lars Berntrop-Bos  | 3/22/2011 8:25:33 AM

    Woot! Very nice!

  1. 20  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 3/22/2011 8:37:55 AM

    Way to go Ed. You're managing to slowly turn the giant ship.

  1. 21  Henning Heinz  | 3/22/2011 8:45:27 AM

    Great!

    @6 Tripp Black

    So far the announcement does not mention anonymous web site access.

  1. 22  Lars Olufsen http://www.olufsphere.com | 3/22/2011 9:10:37 AM

    Good job, Ed!

  1. 23  ChrisC http://www.bssuk.net | 3/22/2011 10:11:21 AM

    Ed, Excellent news. Keen to find out about anonymous access too....thanks!

  1. 24  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 3/22/2011 10:21:53 AM

    I can't definitively answer the anonymous access with Collab Express question until I can update the shipping software license agreement. It is a different category than lifting feature restrictions. So I guess there is a third shoe, but you maybe can see in which direction it is walking ;-)

  1. 25  Brendan Mulvaney http://www.secure-eserver.com | 3/22/2011 11:56:50 AM

    Great news - another step in the direction of X(pages)

  1. 26  Chuck Savino http://www.csavino.com | 3/22/2011 2:06:24 PM

    Should companies under 1,000 employees who have been on regular licensing switch at renewal to Express?

  1. 27  Darren Duke http://blog.darrenduke.net | 3/22/2011 4:05:32 PM

    @26, good luck with that. There is no "upgrade" SKU for that, so you'll have to do some math to see how long the payback will be and if it is worth it.

  1. 28  Henning Heinz  | 3/22/2011 5:26:34 PM

    @26 Chuck

    It depends on how many users you have and how many servers you run. There are also other offerings like the IBM Lotus CEO bundles (especially if you use more than Notes and Domino). And as Darren says in @27 downgrading to Express so far has not been an easy task.

    I hope that the simplified licensing does help IBM and its Partners growing and not only lowering license cost in the installed base.

    And of course the changes are much appreciated. Thank you.

  1. 29  Vitor Pereira http://www.vitor-pereira.com | 3/22/2011 8:07:22 PM

    Hope the socket licensing shoe is also walking in the same direction :)

  1. 30  Sean J  | 3/23/2011 8:08:33 AM

    @18 & @24 would definitely open up the small biz market to Notes/Domino/XPages

  1. 31  ChrisC http://www.bssuk.net | 3/23/2011 8:36:05 AM

    Ed - thanks. Great "news" on the "shoes". We will watch this space!!