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


Rob,

Actually i is very popular in the midwest accross the board...and one ofthe biggest concerns with IBM in that region was how current people werewith their release levels...as many way behind and not going to be upgrading...


Don in DC

At 09:58 AM 1/22/2007 -0500, you wrote:

I went to a Domino R7 rah-rah session in Indy a few months back.  Ed Brill
was one of the featured speakers.  Ed Brill has the same respect in the
Lotus community as what Dr. Frank Soltis has in the iSeries community.

Ed asked for a show of hands, one platform at a time.  The number of
people running it on iSeries dwarfed most other platforms.  I think even
Windows.  Ed did make a comment about "oh, I forgot I was in the midwest".
 Apparently Domino on i is the way to go in the midwest.

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You could try cruising the forums at
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/community/

New to Lotus?
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/newto/

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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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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