IBM announces E-Mail Hosting service

Bob Picciano (General Manager Lotus Software) announced on Interop. fare last week that IBM is going to start an E-Mail and Calendaring service based on Lotus Domino. It is available for companies from 1,000 to 10,000 employees and can be licenced at a price from 8 to 18 dollars per person.
This is most likely the [...]

Lotus Foundations – First steps

Installing Lotus Foundations start is quite a simple thing following this guide. You end up with a VM holding a basic Foundations installation. 
Webmail and calendaring (Domino Web Access) is already included and ready to use. You can choose between Full and Light version of DWA.

The web interface provides and easy way to manage and monitor your [...]

Lotus Notes 8.0.2 language packs available

Most language packs (Group 1 and 2a) are available now including German, French, Italian and so on.
 
    

How to keep track with all the news and developments?

Gee, I have to reorganise myself. There are so many blogs, tweets, feeds, … I follow that I have to find the right platform to do so. The ideal way would be to have a single site where all this data can be linked together and provided in a easy to manage way. Where is [...]

Java EE Server survey – My solution

I posted an article asking about JEE servers and which best to use in different scenarios. Well, I had to find a solution for my company and want to share it with you in case you have a similar task.
We have developed a web application that collects appointment data from Lotus Notes Mailfiles, writes this [...]

Lotusphere 2009

Registration gates are open for next year’s Lotusphere! My first Lotusphere ever was, let me think, this year and all I can say is: AMAZING. There is nothing comparable in the world if you are interested in the Lotus Brand. I will definately go next year to inhale the athmosphere, meet many great people, learn [...]

Google launches WebBrowser called “Chrome”

Google Chrome as announced yesterday is a new Google project. A WebBrowser that follows a new approach. Instead of using one process for the entire browser Chrome uses a process for each and every browser tab. So in case a tab hangs because a script fails to execute properly only that tab hangs and every [...]

Lotus Notes 8.0.2 and 8.5 beta performance figures

I just found a very interesting article which compares performance improvements between Notes 8.0.1 on the one side and 8.0.2 or 8.5 beta on the other side. The comparison shows that Notes 8.5 beta 2 performs as good as Notes 8.0.2. I really want to know if there are any improvements left for the final [...]