Re: Domino on the AS/400 and how to Unstall it?

Jeffrey ...

You're cutting them too much slack.  I quote from the Lotus web site - Product
Availability  -  "LearningSpace Release 2.6 and LearningSpace "Live"
(incorporating the DataBeam LearningServer) will be available in the second half
of 1998 through Lotus authorized resellers."   Of course, we know that LS 2.6 
and
LS "Live" never saw the light of day, and indeed was announced as LS 3.0 with
availability of June 30, 1999? (perhaps avoiding 'second half of 1999?).

We have have been using LearningSpace for the last year.  It is a great product.
We have made significant investments in staff development to prepare our
college's teachers to teach online using LearningSpace.  We are ready to offer
the entire first year of our 2-year Associate Degree (AS/400 RPG based) computer
programming program over the internet using LS.  We have a new AS/400 170-2385
which is the student lab system and our Domino server for LearningSpace.  We 
were
told on June 28th that LS Forum for the AS/400 would not be available until
3Q-1999 - at the same time as the NT version (and packaged together). On June
30th, two days later, Lotus announced it for NT ONLY.  Go figure.

The bottom line is we'll likely be stuck with Domino 4.6 and LearningSpace 2.5
for the entire 1999-2000 school year.  As the "Domino Evangelist" at the 
college,
I'm stuck now explaining why we won't have the synchronous parts of 
LearningSpace
available as promised.  Remember they were announced in May 1998!  And again
having to justify using the AS/400 as the Domino platform instead of NT.  Lotus
should do better!

Ray


Jeffrey Silberberg wrote:

> Careful gentlemen,
>
>             While LearningSpace, SameTime, and Domino.Doc (to name a few)
> are not available on R5.0 yet, it is strictly because the integration/port
> of the products is not complete.  Most of these are products Lotus has
> acquired from people like Databean in this past year, and the base R5.0 had
> to be completed and shipped before the add ons.  Lotus has a statement of
> direction that all of these and more will be R5.0 ready, the question (as it
> was with R5.0 for many months) is when will it be ready to ship not if.
>
>             An depending on what the CUSTOMER needs are , would determine on
> rather I lead with R4.6.4+ or R5+  today...
>
>             JMS...
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 22:34:51 -0500
> From: Ray Peterson <rpeterso@witc.tec.wi.us>
> Subject: Re: Domino on the AS/400 and how to Unstall it?
>
> The new Lotus LearningSpace 3.0 is not supported on R5.  LS 3.0 was
> developed on
> R4.6 and targeted to that release.  Incredible isn't it?
>
> Ray
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--
Ray Peterson
WITC - Shell Lake
505 Pine Ridge Drive
Shell Lake  WI 54871
715 468-2815


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