Lotus Mashups – tough start

After a successfull installation of Lotus Mashups in a VM I started to play around with it today. To be honest, this start was not as easy as I expected. I understand, that basically mashups either show data from feeds or from webpages. Feeds can be accessed directly, if already provided as such, or generated [...]

A Lotus Link Collection

Here is a collection of links to lotus resources and information. The list is most likely incomplete. Links missing but worth listing are welcome. I don’t list links to Lotus Notes / Domnio resources here since there are too many. If there is a demand for such a link list please let me know and [...]

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 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 [...]

Lotus Notes 8.5 beta 2 shipped today

Lotus released the second beta of Lotus Notes 8.5 today. You can download it here.
Prerequisite: “This site allows all users to sign in with IBM IDs and passwords, which can be used site-wide. You will need an IBM ID to continue. (If you have a PartnerWorld® or developerWorks™ user ID, that is considered your IBM [...]

Lotus Notes 8.5 beta 2 shipped shortly

Ed Brill just tweeted that “Notes/Domino 8.5 public beta 2 should be posted later today or early tomorrow.”

Lotus Notes 8.0.2 released

Lotus Notes 8.0.2 has finally been released today and is ready to download from Software Access Catalog.
Ed Brill reported that a new version of Notes 8.5 beta will be shipped later this week.