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

Michael,

I'm not into numbers and you will get conflicting stats from almost
anyone - for example mail seat contests between Outlook and Notes.
However, I can assure you that Domino (Domino, Sametime, Quickplace,
etc.) has a very large install base.  Lotusphere is a very large
convention with thousands of attendees worldwide.

Perhaps this is another marketing issue with IBM?  :-)

Michael Crump
 
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 9:43 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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