LotusSphere 2004 has just finished, and for those who did not attend there's a load of good info floating about from various weblogs. Here's some of my picks of interesting information.
NSFTools has some good day by day summaries of some of the presentations he went to, and things he did, including info on webservices in Domino, and his day one entry which talks about whats coming up with the R6.51 and R7 releases.
2 little snippets from his latest entries:
First, about the future of Notes..
Notes is not dead
Rumors of the death of Lotus Notes have been greatly exaggerated (with a nod to Samuel Clemens). Notes 7 will go beta in Q2, there are large plans for Notes 8, and Lotusphere 2005 is on the calendar (much to no one's surprise, I hope). Notes will not be replaced by Portal, it will integrate with it, and the Notes 8 client will actually be a component of the Workplace client.
..and on Portals..
Portal is the major IBM initiative
The whole IBM world is getting portalized. The big thing to realize here is that Portal (and when I say that I mean WebSphere Portal) aggregates technology, it doesn't specifically replace it.
Declan's Dom Blog has some good info as well, including some Undocumented NOTES.INI variables and Spam prevention techniques for Domino. Interestingly enough, I stumbled across a solution to fixing something I've been meaning to look at for a while - namely the ability to hold undeliverable mail instead of delivering a failure report. Who says that random web browsing isn't productive?
From Codestore, Jakes main comment of interest was:
The only thing I did pick-up on is that our future is in Java.
Bah. Not for me!
I also checked out the Peerwire homepage. It seems like an interesting idea, and it could have potential if it took off. I like the sound of the sharing being integrated into the Designer Client, however there's so much free code out there at the moment in resource stores like the Sandbox, and other peoples web sites that you have to wonder how well it's going to do.
If you like to take a peek into the lives of the peoples websites you visit, then you can check out some photos of Lotus geeks here.