Weekend reading: New "Hannover" and Notes/Domino roadmap executive whitepapers

September 1 2006

Wow WOW WOW have I been waiting for these!  Two new papers -- PHB length...

First up, "IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino roadmap."  Very clear, conscise messages.  Not just about "Hannover", but commitment beyond that, now in print.

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Second, we have a ten-page preview of Notes "Hannover", covering all areas of the new release.

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Check 'em out!

Ed Brill Chicago, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8  Add/View Comments [12]

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  1. 1  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 9/1/2006 12:46:29 PM

    Good stuff for the PHB crowd. :) I'm still waiting for something more technical, but this did highlight some new features I'd not heard about yet. Thanks for sharing.

  1. 2  Samuel deHuszar Allen  | 9/1/2006 1:05:39 PM

    A few questions are raised by this:

    1) Does the reference to Web 2.0 support include proper CSS/XSL compliance IN THE CLIENT, or is it referring to the WebAccess support of Hannover versioned databases?

    2) Since the Productivity Tools are in effect a fork of OpenOffice.org, will there still be compatibility for internal scripting languages such as StarBASIC, their internal Java/JavaScript programming hooks and their UNO plugin system, or has all that been stripped out with the Draw and Base tools? Since I don't have a machine powerful enough to setup a Workplace test server environment, I have to rely on all you who have some hands-on experience.

    3) While I understand that LotusScript will still work in the Notes enviroment regardless of the platform, it's usefulness is severely lessened in the Linux/Mac universe. Plus, if IBM can lessen the need to for us to intimately know every supported language in the Notes environment so we can get the one piece of our app to work the way we intended, it would go a long way. Along these lines, can we expect to see full parity of objects, functions, commands and methods between the LotusScript/@Formula languages and the Java/JavaScript universe moving forward? I realize this is a CLIENT release and not a Designer release, but it's mentioned in the white paper, and is not made clear nor given much context.

    4) Any timetable on a beta? :)

    Thanks a bunch.

  1. 3  John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 9/1/2006 1:32:53 PM

    @2 - The WCS version of the Productivity Editors has the OpenOffice Macro functionality, but no UNO support. After what I saw at the Advisor conference, the IPT are very different in Hannover then what was in WCS ... so hard to see what we will get.

    I also am pretty sure that there will not be UI object support in Java this release. What we can do via java via Eclipse is a different story ... that will be interesting to work with.

  1. 4  Samuel deHuszar Allen  | 9/1/2006 1:40:02 PM

    Hmmm... if you include the Java/Script hooks in your definition of Macro functionality, then all it probably well, otherwise it may be time to start thinking about an OpenOffice Document Library Template. :(

  1. 5  Keith Brooks http://www.kbmsg.blogspot.com/ | 9/1/2006 1:55:03 PM

    Hannover has the Mail Recall function.

    How will this interact with archiving and message storage for legal compliance?Will it be user role based or group or domain or ACL?

    Also will spam filtering finally work for stand alone clients who use Notes without a Domino server? This alone would be worth gold in my house.

  1. 6  Henning Heinz  | 9/1/2006 2:11:21 PM

    afaik Mail Recall is optional. I do not know how much it can take care of compliance issues (message retraction remains an ugly hack anyway). I will try to avoid it but it is good if you do feature fuxxing with Exchange.

    I am with Charles (1), more tech stuff would be nice.

  1. 7  Bill Geimer  | 9/1/2006 2:30:52 PM

    Thanks for posting. However, for some in management, the old adage about a Picture being worth a thousand words. I am hoping that IBM will be willing to share a view of the new GUI and other graphical art, along with the additional technical information that others have asked about.

  1. 8  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 9/1/2006 5:01:56 PM

    Well, there are pictures already posted on { Link } (each of the "featured capabilities"). As you've probably seen from Mary Beth's blog, the UI is still work-in-process in some areas, so a moment-in-time representation in the white paper might not be as useful. Having said that, I would have liked to have seen -something- in the whitepaper. I believe we'll see an eventual update that puts the two together, but probably not until after beta starts.

    Which, to answer @2, the first public beta should be within the next 60 days.

  1. 9  Samuel deHuszar Allen  | 9/2/2006 12:36:51 AM

    @8 F'ing sweet!!! I can't wait.

  1. 10  Rob Ingram  | 9/2/2006 5:55:10 PM

    @5 Re message recall - journaling will still keep a copy of the original sent message even if recall happens and so can be sent to the legal retention/ archive store. The recall message would also be journaled.

    Recall will be a 'Domino policy' based setting so optional admin setting for any given users.

  1. 11  Chris Whisonant http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com | 9/5/2006 9:54:02 AM

    The Streaming Cluster Replication looks fairly promising as well!

    Good briefings!

  1. 12  Pascal Arnold  | 9/8/2006 6:50:54 AM

    @8: I thought it would be in late 2007. The erlier the better, think there are a lot of people witch are waiting on the new eclipse based client.

    I asked Mary Beth on DNUG "can we have a hannover-forum on notes.net". She promise me, there will be one when the first public beta is released. --> I didn't forgot this! ;)