Re: The Future of the System i - the Domino theory

I realize I lead a sheltered life, but is Domino for workflow in
particular and Domino for email in general all that popular? I don't
know of anyone running it around here, but that's probably my limited
world view. Are there any stats regarding installed base?

On 1/22/07, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree, Domino is a killer app for the iSeries.

IBM has pushed Domino at LotusSphere for quite some time.  This has helped
sell iSeries like hotcakes.  Local IBM reps were finding iSeries in shops
they've never heard of.

There was quite a hullabaloo at LotusSphere the first time IBM went
bonkers pushing iSeries.  They gave away a car.  Literally gave it away,
not like the bad controversy at another conference about something from
another vendor that was just a lease.  Anyway, the lines at the iSeries
booth literally blocked the approach to all the other hardware vendor
booths.  To the point where grievances were filed.  Large boards pushing
iSeries were at all the major airports serving that LotusSphere.

And this was when LotusSphere was so hot that if you didn't register
within one hour of online registering opening up you weren't going.  Kinda
put the excitement to the latest hottest concert to shame.

Remember, Domino is NOT just email.  The workflow applications on it, etc,
kick tail.

Rob Berendt
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My brother (yes, there is a brother in Pluta Brothers) is currently down
at
the Lotusphere convention.  As you might expect, IBM is really pushing a
convergence of Domino and WebSphere, and there is a lot of interesting
direction there regarding the use of Eclipse as the base platform for
developing powerful portal-based Lotus applications.

What you might NOT have expected is that IBM seems to be moving away from
Windows as a server for Domino.  Instead, they seem to really be pushing
System i as the platform of choice for running Domino shops.  Now, this is
just my brother's empirical sense from having gone through the jump start
sessions, but he says the message is pretty clear: if you want Domino, you
want the System i as your platform.

And Trevor gets some well-deserved vindication in that the connection
between Domino and legacy applications is really the most specific SOA
message I've heard to date.  He doesn't have a ton of specifics yet, and I
hope to get more information over the coming weeks, but the new version of
Domino has a very high-level concept of "producers" and "consumers" and
that's where legacy code will fit.

In any case, the moral of the story is that if you want to push the System
i, you definitely should be backing the Domino pony.

Joe


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