Lotus News

Jan 23 2009   1:14PM GMT

Trial: IBM Lotus Expeditor V6.2 toolkit

Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus, Lotus News, Ltus Expeditor Toolkit

LINK :: IBM Lotus Expeditor v6.2 Toolkit Download

Download IBM® Lotus® Expeditor 6.2 toolkit at no charge to see how easily you can leverage your OSGi™ foundation and Eclipse™ platform skills to develop and extend composite applications to managed clients — used online or offline.

IBM® Lotus® Expeditor software is IBM’s universal desktop client integration framework. It assists developers in integrating a wide variety of client and server applications in composite applications to optimize the information that your employees need to accelerate your business processes. Use it to extend your IBM Lotus or IBM WebSphere® Portal (or other IBM WebSphere or Eclipse™) or other application infrastructures such as Microsoft applications. Lotus Expeditor software supports laptops, desktops, kiosks and mobile device clients.

Lotus Expeditor Integrator software provides a local concentrator and integration hub for transactional messaging for satellite locations of an enterprise such as retail outlets or remote offices. Lotus Expeditor software provides the flexibility of service oriented architecture (SOA) and a standards-based programming model from the OSGi™ alliance and the Eclipse foundation. The client integration software is the follow-on release of IBM WebSphere Everyplace® Deployment and IBM® Workplace™ Client Technology products.

The Lotus Expeditor wiki includes information that will help get started in installing and using the toolkit.

Jun 22 2008   2:48AM GMT

New Site is coming

Posted by: David Vasta
Linux, Lotus, SUN, FreeBSD, Apple, System i, Ubuntu Linux, Linux in System i, Domino on System i, David on System i, Lotus News, i on Power, AIX on Power, Linux on POWER, POWER Systems, i, i for business, OpenSolaris, IBM i

I am working on a new site, so between work, this site, writting for Search400 (which I hope they change the name of soon) and family, I have also found little time to start building a new site that will in the end be a hub for all things POWER based. I have to bring the community together under one web site.

So with that said, I am going to need people to provide content for the site. I need really dedicated insane people to help build the community from all parts of this equation. IBM i, AIX, Linux on Power, and POWER hardware. We need to come together in a big way and share. I am also going to cover Lotus, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, OpenSuSE, FreeBSD and other things that interest me that I think are changing the way IT does IT.

Please send me an email and I will get you in on the fun, and if you know Joomla that would be great too…I am no expert on that CMS kit.

May 30 2008   3:04PM GMT

Lotus 8.5 Beta is out for everyone to test and tinker

Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Ubuntu Linux, Redhat Linux, Lotus 8, Lotus News, Lotus Symphony

I am excited about the new 8.5 client and other Lotus stuff that is out today. While 8.0.1 is nice, it still has some issues. The Linux and Mac Lotus Notes Clients are out as well so this should be one of those “steps in the right direction” things.

Link to the Lotus 8.5 Beta Download page 

Mar 10 2008   5:30PM GMT

Two things from IBM today. UC² and Lotus Symphony

Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus, Lotus Sametime, Open source, IBM News, Lotus 8, Lotus News, Lotus Symphony

While I don’t see anyone covering this, I figured I would so that IBM gets some fair play on the old blogs.

IBM has launched a pretty funny little movie about UC² that is about Unified Communications. Using Sametime and other Lotus based products to collaborate. I can assure you Lotus does this much better than any Microsoft product.

Lotus Symphony is being shrugged off as another Lotus product meant to deliver nothing and complicate the Lotus offering. I have found since I have started using it to be neither of the two. Lotus Symphony gives you an office product in your Lotus Notes 8 client. It’s well done and can only get better over time. If your a Word or Excel power user I think it’s going to take time before it’s that fancy but then again Excel didn’t get there overnight either. I can remember when people were complaining about Excel not being as full featured as Lotus 1-2-3? Link to article

Feb 20 2008   6:59AM GMT

Lotus Notes 8.0.1 is uploaded to Passport Advantage - ME FIRST

Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus 8, Lotus News

I just checked Passport Advantage and 8.0.1 is there and ready for the download. I think this is super! It’s kind of there but not really so I think it should be up there soon. Maybe they are uploading them in the back groud and we Lotus Nuts just can’t get at them yet? Either way there are going to be there sometime today and there is going to be a mad rush to get them.

Feb 20 2008   2:50AM GMT

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 coming 20th of Feb

Posted by: David Vasta
AS/400, System i, Domino on System i, Lotus 8, Lotus News

According to Ed Brill, Lotus 8.0.1 in English is coming tomorrow. I am looking forward to it and so should all of you. Other languages to follow.