System i Addict

So while I am working out tonight I listened to the Taking Notes Pod Cast, thanks guys for doing this for the community, and it was talking about XPages.

I am really interrested in Design work, and while it’s my weakness, it is one of the things I am trying to learn more about. The podcast is a must listen to for anyone talking about 8.5 and the new Domino Designer stuff along with XPages.

Keep up the good work!

Taking Notes Pod Cast Site

Link-I hope this links it -LinkedIN’s Links are funky

WOW, this is amazing. I know there are more people out there and I want them all to join up. If you are on LinkedIN and a Lotus person please join up under the groups section. We would love to have you. Thanks to all who have joined. I now need to do soemthing to really make the group special and do something neat? Any ideas?

Thought I would share:

To power businesses and consumers with mobile Web computing capabilities, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it has expanded its relationship with AT&T, Inc (NYSE:T),  Sprint (NYSE:S), and other wireless carriers to provide broader e-mail access  to their customers who use IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software on their hand-held devices.

AT&T and Sprint have certified for use by their customers, IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler software which enables wireless replication of Lotus Notes e-mail, calendaring, and personal information management (PIM) data on select smartphones.

IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler software can be loaded with all of the set up information pre-configured. This means it is now “wireless replication-ready” as soon as the customer starts using his new device.  Standard data usage charges apply.

The devices from AT&T that have this capability are the AT&T 8525, AT&T Tilt, Moto Q Global, Palm Treo 750, PantechDuo (Mustang C810), Samsung Blackjack, and Samsung Blackjack II (i617). The devices from Sprint to include it are the Touch by HTC™, Samsung ACETM, Palm® Treo™ 700wx and Palm® Treo™ 800w.  There are more than 140 million Lotus Notes and Domino licensed users worldwide.

IBM Embedded Software Gives AT&T and Sprint Customers Access to Lotus E-mail

We have started a little get together here in Charlotte of geeks, call Lunch Time Geeks. If you are in the South Carlotte/Rock Hill area drop me a line we would love to have you.

Well we were all talking about the Lotus bloggers out there and I asked who read Volker’s post, and most did, then someone said when does he have time to work is he is always surfing for information and posting it? Is that not a full time job?

So I am posting it here in hopes we could shed some light on the topic. It’s not all about Volker though, when do you have time to post? How much time to you dedicate a week or day? Is it something you like doing or you do becasue you are in the biz and it helps create revenue?

-David

Link to Article

“This announcement puts IBM under severe pressure. Lotus maven, Ed Brill is valiantly defending the line, but with the iPhone now becoming a legitimate Enterprise device some of the bastions of Notes will come under pressure from senior Executives to deliver an ‘integrated’ messaging solution.”

Alright so you are looking now and I really don’t have much to say. I read or cruise PLANET LOTUS.org all the time trying to keep up and I can’t stop clicking on what Vowe posts (Volker Weber), I know it’s going to be very Vowe but It’s not always anything I would read int eh wild but it’s always interesting to see. Thanks Vowe or Volker Weber for making the Lotus part of the internet interesting. Now go back to his site, I know the visits are short lived.

Volker Weber’s 5 day hit count right now is over 1100 and mine is like 7 or 8, yeap 7. So I just wanted to casue a little trouble on Friday. Have a great weekend y’all.

Also I wanted to see how many links I could get on PlanetLotus.org too. Just as a Friday experiment.

Proof: The post about Lotus 8.5 and Ubuntu has 20 Hits and this one has 16 and is on the rise. Just more proof Vowe is more popular than Lotus Notes!

I have a standard updated as of today version of Ubuntu 8.04 running on a DELL Optiplex 755. It’s a pretty good little second machine. I have installed the Lotus Notes client on the Ubuntu desktop and have take a few screen shots to share with all of you.

As for the install, it’s easy and that is how you do software. There are a few things out of place in the client but all seems to be working. Still tinkering but I wanted to get these posted.

Installing from DEBs that came right from IBM. I didn’t have to make them!

Part of the Wizard

Lotus Notes Wizard looking for the ID file

Lotus 8.5 DB properties. Sorry for the black outs. Had to for my purposes.

FIle Menu

Lotus 8.5 Open Menu

Lotus 8.5 displaying an Image and it worked first time. No problems there.

A little image of what you get when you download the TAR files from IBM. Hope that all makes sense. Looks like a football play?

Side Notes: I am excited as to the future of Lotus Notes. I really am. A Linux/Ubuntu install and the new Mac client is well and good, but when am I going to be able to trash my Windows desktop as an Administrator or a Designer? How far out is that? I know I can use the Web Administration but that creates overhead on my servers and if one of them is down it spoils the works. I really want IBM to build a Lotus Administration Client for Linux and if you are felling cheeky a MacOSX version too. I would also like to see a clear path to Eclipse and how that is coming. IMHO it should have been out years ago, but again it’s not here and we are all kind of stuck in the middle again with Notes 8.5 for Linux and for Mac but no way to build new applications or administer them. If Microsoft wants to take pot shots at you this is the way they are going to do it. Point out that Lotus is only delivering some of the tools on some of the OSes and playing favorites. It may be FUD but it’s what they have to work with.

Lotus needs to step it up and stop playing delivery man all the time and just give me what I have been requesting going on five or nine years now. I want my Administration Client and my Designer Client on Mac and Linux (Ubuntu) and I want it now. I don’t want crying about numbers or statistics, I just want it delivered and I expect it from a company as large as IBM who cries all the time about how poor Windows is and then forces it’s customer base to keep using it. You can’t have it both ways.

Link to LotusonRedhat.com

“Lotus on Linux is a secure email, scheduling, calendaring, and messaging platform. It’s a simple, easy and affordable way for small and mid-sized business to enjoy enterprise performance and scalability with the rock-solid reliability, security and simplicity of linux. All at a substantially lower cost with no compromise.”

Hello,

I am not one to bring by the Girl Scout cookies to your desk or ask people to sponsor me, my church or other things at work, but I think as Lotus people we all have a community bond that is both technical and personal. Yancy Lent, the owner of PlanetLotus.com, has posted a request of sorts and needs our help.

I hate it when kids get cancer, it’s just not fair. Kids should have to worry about bumps and scraps but not about who is going to donate bone marrow to them or if they are going to die. So if you feel so inclined please donate, if not I understand. Make sure to you end the amount in 8 to let the cancer fighting community that there is a Lotus Community behind them!

http://charity.planetlotus.org/

Also share this with anyone you think would want to help out. Someday soon I think we are going to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the families it effects now need our help.

-Thanks,
David

While on the COMMON floor I was able to look at the new System i Power Blades that IBM is saying will fit in your current “H” & “S” blade centers. It’s a four core Power6 blade that you can use any number of ways. It’s important to me because now I have my “pizza box” and they are also talking about a 2 core blade on the way that will of course be much like a System i 515 or 520 depending on how you use it.

As a Lotus person now I get excited about the oddest things. I would love to get about 3 new 4 core bladed and run a few Domino servers on them on System i and System p? Wouldn’t that be fun?

I love to cause trouble as long as I don’t get my mug taken and have to get a pat down. Go over to this site and vote for Lotus Notes. It would be funny for an “I hate Lotus Notes” site to have people on there telling them that they love Lotus Notes. Irony isn’t it grand!

I have two questions: Have you seen this problem (YES I HAVE)? and Have you tested the fix?

Your right Vitor Andy has been covering it and I should have posted that as well. Here are some links to Andy Blog. I respect his work and thank him for covering it:

Andy Reports the Problem
IBM Fix Post

From the SPR:

So I have been working at this new job with loads of really excellent people. I have been working with on person off and on as the need arises and just today realized that I read his blog and have been reading it for some time (maybe 5 years now). Nice to know he is on my side of the firewall.

In the past I have openly been very negative about Apple’s lack of Enterprise awareness. Apple does not seem to think they need to do anything at a corporate or enterprise level and that selling iPhone and iPods was going to make them a well rounded company. I have begged and pleaded with Apple to recognize that there is an entire market out there that needs addressing and they fail to deal with any of it. The failures of the xServe are apparent. The most reliable UNIX based server with the best set of tools and applications to manage it and they have not made a single significantly large sale into any large company with them. The xServe should be a no brainer for any company with server needs, but it’s not.

Then up pops the iPhone, and handy little device that seems to have won the hearth of the consumers but the IT people and business people can’t leverage the tool since it can’t be managed and you can’t build apps for it. Well that has all changed. On March 6th Apple released a program to do just that. You can now use your iPhone in some of the same ways you could a Blackberry.

One last request Apple, and you all out there know what this is going to be, call IBM and have them port Domino to MacOSX Server and then give Lotus Notes/Domino support via iPhone Enterprise Solutions.

Fake Steve Agrees too 

Not sure if anyone has covered this topic but IBM has released a set of docs that show how good the performace is in Lotus Domino 8.0.1

Link —-> The case for upgrading to IBM Lotus Domino 8 for better server performance

I have some buddies up in Mass. and wanted to make sure the folks from Lotus in the Boston area know we all like 8.0.1, it’s Wicked Nice!

I have been using it for the past 24 hours and I can tell you now, this is what we all have been complaining asking for in this version of Lotus 8. Lots of the features we wanted back are there. I am really impressed with it and have shown it to a few end users and they want it NOW!

So way to go IBM and LOTUS, it’s a job well done. Now all we have to do as Lotus people is leverage it properly and everything in the universe will be perfect, at least until we find a bug.

Link to my post on my ITKE site. LINK

If you do anything you have to read this : Managing Lotus Domino servers — 15 tips in 15 minutes

The cat is out of the bag. Lotus anno0ucned today that they will be supporting Ubuntu and Lotus Notes. This is great. Thank you, thank you , thank you Lotus Team!Also Lotus Notes 8.5 for MacOSX is on the way as well.LINK

Ed Brill Comments on Notes for Ubuntu. Thanks Ed - I knew you knew and couldn’t let us know! 

I think it’s cute. Lotusphere is coming and even though I am not going I get excited this time of year. I will have a budget for next year to be there and you had better save me a beer.

Link to Movie