I spoke with ZDNet yesterday about Notes/Domino 8....
It's no secret that the Lotus Notes UI has been, shall we say ... cumbersome over the years (since Notes 5?). IBM hopes to have cleared that hurdle with a new interface, featuring a sidebar that summarizes all the user's tools in one place, including the RSS feeds.After also looking at the Lotus Expeditor framework and Eclipse in this context, Dana concludes:
In fact, it's the new interface that's gotten the most positive feedback from customer tests, according to Ed Brill, Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Lotus Notes/Domino Sales, IBM Software Group (nice title, Ed; go for brevity, I always say). The new release has been in development for more than two years.
There will be those Web 2.0 purists who will smirk at the way IBM is bringing these functions to the market. But consider that enterprises do more unified collaboration via Notes/Domino than just about any other system. And, importantly, it's a lot easier to bring Web 2.0 functionality into an existing enterprise IT icon, than to bring Web 2.0 functionality into the enterprise all on its barely surviving greenfield start-up own.Link: ZDNet/Dana Gardner: Lotus Notes 8 brings unified collaboration to mashupable clients >
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Frederic Antille | 8/18/2007 2:50:28 PM
Just a question about the new features in LND8, how it's possible to give the feel & look of the new view style to a classic old "r7" dev ?
I think it's on the "Composite application" but when I use a "standard" view in the composite application designer, I cannot get the feature to have the preview pane on left or to have the new nice button style. Could someone push me on the right way to find the anwer ?
Thanks
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John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 8/18/2007 4:15:43 PM
"Java Views" are not supported for custom applications in 8.0.0 Frederic. You will have to wait.
That being said, it is doable. Just be prepared to work with raw XML.
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/18/2007 7:12:25 PM
@4 good idea, I should add the digg functionality to the blog.
I did make the front page of techmeme today...
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Peter Wilson | 8/18/2007 8:05:12 PM
Great idea Frederic - maybe IBM could bring out an article with info on color schemes / design ideas so that developers could refresh the look and feel of their apps for Notes 8.
Pete
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Dan Holzrichter | 8/18/2007 8:40:16 PM
Last week you hinted about some Notes market share info. Has the info been released yet?
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Dave Madison | 8/18/2007 8:43:26 PM
"mashupable"????? Uh...is that really a word?
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/18/2007 9:24:59 PM
@7 Yes. I'll write about it on Monday.
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Karl-Henry Martinsson | 8/19/2007 8:52:17 AM
I guess I am not the only one that made a comment on Ed's title in an article. :-) But that was what, 2 years ago... ZDnet is slacking! ;-)
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MarvinK | 8/20/2007 10:17:35 AM
Since r5? We were stuck on 4.5 and used earlier clients, too--I think its always been clumsy--it is the other enterprise mail clients that started making dramatic usability improvements around the r5 timeline.
In any case, r8 is definitely a lot more pretty... but I think the thing our users will like most is the inline spell checker. :P
That's a much nicer way of expressing the way I feel about Web 2.0 (and its Twisted Sister, Enterprise 2.0). When you hit real corporations, with their need for SOX compliance and strong security, exactly who buys into the idea of putting corporate assets into unproven systems? And why isn't anyone who does buy into it immediately fired?