Ed Brill posted this earlier today http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/147-roi-for-upgrading-to-notesdomino-8.5-forrester-webcast Forrester Research’s Ted Schadler and Jon Erickson spoke with numerous Lotus customers who had completed the upgrade, and calculated the economic benefits in aggregate. The result: An astounding 147% ROI for upgrading to Notes/Domino 8.5, with a payback period of only one year. This is a fantastic point … Read more
I am listening to the webcast on the release of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1. Lots of new features in the release. For one, it has 4 times the fixes of any standard maintenance release. IBM has today announced the launch of long awaited Notes 8.5.1. One of the major themes for this point release is on … Read more
Lotus Domino 8.5 introduced a new feature call DAOS. This tool is designed to reduce attachment duplication by externalizing the attachment and leaving a pointer in the Notes application or mail file. This presentation is courtesy of the NELotus user group . Its yet another reason to upgrade to the latest version! Daos Technical Overview … Read more
What is happeningThe certificate for some Java applets in Lotus Domino 6.5.x, Domino 7.0.x, Domino 8.0.x, and Domino 8.5 have an expiration date of May 18, 2009. Starting May 19th, Web users will see a dialog with a message similar to one of the following when loading a Web page that contains a Java applet … Read more
This post is really for the Linux newbies. Most sys admins are already familiar with Windows services to automagically start and stop an application. Frequent readers know that I am a Linux advocate, so here is a tip for those who may be interested in moving to a Linux platform for their WebSphere or Lotus … Read more
I’m blogging from LotusSphere today in the Opening Session. Here are some of the key highlights. Lotus Notes celebrates 20 years this week. IBM announced that Bluehouse is now LotusLive, a SaaS solution for Lotus Notes and Domino. RIM announced new Blackberry Application. The new app for Lotus Connections features access to all of Connections’ … Read more
Yep, you heard it right… here’s the scoop. Introducing IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ibm lotus) ©2016 Strongback Consulting
This note contains links (URLs) to technical support documents regardingIBM Lotus Notes & Domino, as well as links to key information helping youderive the most value from your software licenses, and helping you be thebest possible system administrator. This month’s mailing has six sections: Announcements Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Open Mics/Webcasts & devWorks articles … Read more
For my fellow consultants out there who have not taken the time to get your Lotus Domino 7 update exams out of the way (that would include me), your time is limited. IBM has announced that these update exams will be retired on December 31st. Really, the only reason to get them at this point … Read more
For those that missed it, IBM release 8.0.2 to Notes on Friday of last week. This release is highly focused on performance. IBM’s goals were to reduce the startup time of the Notes client and improve the overall performance of the Domino server. For some real world measurements, Darren Duke has posted some of his … Read more