The Not-So-Rapid Blog :: IBM http://www.not-so-rapid.com IBM Feed: The Not-So-Rapid Blog en It's all gone quiet... Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:00:46 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-875G4H

It's all gone a bit quiet, hasn't it?

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 The Future of Notes #4 - The M Word Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:48:59 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-86VTL5

The M Word. Marketing.

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 The Future of Notes #3 - Making It Available Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:19:26 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-86UGG6

You can't get new users for Notes if it's not actually available...

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 The Future of Notes #2 - Why a Notes App Store will fail (and how to fix that) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:34:56 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-86QGRU

Why a Notes App Store will fail, and how we can fix that

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 The Future of Notes #1.5 - Introducing the new Notes Light Client Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:16:38 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-86PJRE

You want Notes Light? Despite what I've said, we CAN have it. Here's how.

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 The Future of Notes #1: Kill the client Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:49:40 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-86PFVK

The Notes Client is dead, Long Live the Client!

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 ADMINISTRATORS! ADMINISTRATORS! ADMINISTRATORS! Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:07 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-86MK9Y

With the developers kicking off in the yellow bubble, how are the administrators doing?

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 Houston, Tranquility Base here, the E-Mail has landed Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:47:37 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7ZPGZS

Houston, Tranquility Base here, the E-Mail Has Landed...

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 Toasting 20 years of Notes with a Pittyvaich 20yo Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:02:33 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7YJ23M

If you're going to note something, note it well.

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 20 years of Notes, of which I saw 13. Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:08:02 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7YHV5J

Notes 1.0 was released today in 1989.

I first met Notes at around R3, a short while before R4's release (if I recall correctly).

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 Ruminating on NSFDB2 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:54 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7WDGBG

Ruminations on NSFDB2 and its demise...

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 Whaaaaaa? (Or: How to contradict yourself) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:52:02 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7TZFX2

Did Microsoft consider SQL Server as the storage engine for Exchange Server? Yes! Did it work? Yes! Shall we use it? No!?!?

Hmmmm.

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 Lost Knowledge of Notes and Domino Administration Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:49:10 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7SZR4Q

This article lists the areas of Notes and Domino that are now "defunct". That means either features which don't exist anymore, or features that have been re-written extensively or replaced.

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 New Article - Lost Knowledge of Notes and Domino Administration Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:45:24 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7SZR6W

I've converted the list of lost knowledge into an article, so that it can have a permanent home and be updated as and when required.

I've also added DAMO and DB2NSF as items with an unknown date of loss, as they're technically pending right now.

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 It's wicked to mock the afflicted Tue, 19 May 2009 21:17:48 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7S7RT6

It turns out IBM might have a sense of humour...

The lowest form of humour, but still, it's a start.

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 Return on investment with Notes and Domino Tue, 5 May 2009 19:02:47 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7RRP6R

Passing my R7 upgrade exam did make me appreciate the personal return on investment that I have with Notes and Domino.

I've chosen not to use products and platforms before on the grounds that they have poor architecture and basically get re-written every other version...

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 On the 59th minute of the 11th hour... Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:03:41 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7RKKNT

I've just upgraded my certification, but admittedly I cut it a little fine.

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 Robust messaging engine? Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:38:51 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7P8HZT

Mike Altendorf seems to think that Lotus Domino Server doesn't have a robust messaging engine., Evidently, we have different measurements for "robust"...

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 Microsoft's Spoiler: We're shipping alpha software Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:50:57 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7NBCDV

Microsoft released alphas of Office 14 products, including Exchange Server 14, in an effort to distract people from announcements at IBM's LotusSphere.

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 Open Sourcing Domino Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:12:01 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7MX2TR

The main buzz recently has been about open-sourcing Domino and Notes., Which is odd, because I thought we'd enjoyed that for a long time anyway., Maybe it should just be made official?

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 IM not making great inroads into UK business... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:41:43 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7GJTFL

Ars Technica has an interesting article on Instant Messaging takeup in UK business.

Basically, it's poor.

It seems that neither SameTime nor Office Communicator have made a compelling case to most businesses - which is a great shame.

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 Python, Notes and being Numero UNO (Part 3 of The Death of LotusScript) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:23:01 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7FVU42

Python and Notes seem to me to be a great match.

We've seen a lot about XPages in the past few days, and some have expressed reservations about Python because XPages is so obviously the future of Notes development.

But in the final part of this three part series, I want to show how Python can do something very different...

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 Python, Notes and Ease of Development (Part 2 of The Death of LotusScript) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:57:39 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7FRKK3

In part 2 of the Death of LotusScript, I cover why I think Python's a good match for Notes.

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 Domino Designer 8.5, and killing LotusScript (Part 1 of The Death of LotusScript) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:43:17 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7FQNSK

I'm immensely fond of LotusScript - it's easy AND powerful, but its time has past.

But I'm not sure anyone's going to like me for saying it has to be put out to graze. Its time has past, and I think that we can do better.

(Warning: Contains language advocacy!)

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 Full Disclosure and Open Source Mon, 19 May 2008 21:05:48 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7ESRKN

A follow up on the Debian OpenSSL issue.

This post is actually based around something that got me very angry when I stumbled across it in March, but I figured I'd let it go.

But the recent events force my hand, and I have to just say it now...

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 Notes 8 on Ubuntu - Slashdot, IBM, blogs and thanks Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:34:10 +0200 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-7B9TAV

The announcement on Notes 8 Ubuntu support hits slashdot, and the inevitable commentaries kick in., At least one of my responses could not be possible without IBM's unique attitude to blogging, so I just wanted to say thanks to all concerned.

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 Possibly not the intended effect... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:54:44 +0200 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-78XFYQ

Peter O'Kelly pointed out a video on YouTube for IBM Symphony, and then quoted Bill Gates., Sadly, I think this didn't make me think what he wanted me to think...

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 Redbooks Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:00:04 +0200 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-77CSMK

I guess I'll never write a Redbook now...

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 IBM's Symphony is just a warm-up act Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:58:46 +0200 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-776G39

IBM released Lotus Symphony today - here's my take on this.

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 The Anti-Parrot Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:16:15 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-75GU57

Lotus is the anti-parrot.

Whilst others are experiencing a total lack of movement due to "it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk", Lotus is still here.

Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell CIO magazine...

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 UK LUG! Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:16:28 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-75EKWT

When you're halfway through your second Win2K3 Server install of the day, finding out about a new UK Lotus User Group makes it all seem much better!

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 Feature Creep Mon, 28 May 2007 12:52:47 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-73MFXH

Feature Creep is part of what makes Notes and Domino great. But we need to bear that in mind for R8 and beyond...

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 Clustering is hard Tue, 8 May 2007 13:54:43 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-72ZH68

Clustering is remarkably difficult. Here's a brief example of what I mean by that...

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 There's a problem with my Lotus... Tue, 8 May 2007 13:26:00 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-72ZGLA

What's the net effect of the Notes/Domino name?

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 Dogfooding, and the tragedy of IBM/Lotus for the SMB Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:08:12 +0100 http://www.not-so-rapid.com/members/philipstorry/s3blog/not-so-rapid.nsf/archive/MDOZ-72BF3N

Charles Robinson has an excellent article on dogfooding, which I'd like to expand upon...

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