Dear all,
would Lotus Notes/Domino be totally replaced by Lotus Workplace? Or there are 2 different kinds of applications…
thx for your advice.
Wong
Subject: Not as such…
…it’ll merge eventually, I guess. Read this for more info:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/24/HNworkplaceinterview_1.html
The most relevant piece is this:
"InfoWorld: What does the Client Technology introduction mean for customers’ existing Lotus Notes investments?
Bisconti: One of the common comments we receive is this technology is very interesting, what does it mean to me as a Notes/Domino customer? Hopefully, what we’ve started to show our existing customers is that we have a plan to evolve both the Domino-based products and the Workplace products together with a goal of converging the technologies over the next few years. It is a multiyear journey. One example of convergence that we showed last week is how we are developing a Notes plug-in to the Workplace Client environment that will be able to surface existing Notes applications and Notes environments directly to a Workplace Client user. That [is] currently scheduled for the Notes 8 timeframe, we plan to use the Workplace Client technologies in the next generation of the Lotus Notes client, giving us the low cost of ownership, browser-like deployment, ubiquitous access qualities of the Workplace Client with the traditional rich function application support of Notes. A Notes customer doesn’t have to think about this at all, but they should know that it is in our planning horizon. In Notes 7 you can choose to start experimenting with this surfacing Notes applications inside the Workplace Client. By the Notes 8 timeframe in 2006, we will use the Workplace Client technology under the covers of Notes very naturally and embedded.
They will be using a framework that is much broader than what they had in Notes. Notes has been very powerful for offline apps and rich client side applications, but traditionally has been limited by the idea that it is limited to groupware. Because Workplace Client is built on technologies like a relational data store, SyncML synchronization, the Eclipse programming model and framework, they will now have an environment that has all the integration capabilities of a portal and all the application access of a Java J2EE environment with the traditional applications they are used to in Notes with the traditional offline, security, and rich function quality they are used to in Notes. "
Subject: The information on Lotus.com should help you understand Lotus Workplace
http://www.lotus.com/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/workplacehome
Lotus Workplace frequently asked questions
http://www.lotus.com/products/product5.nsf/wdocs/d3880f832ecbb7a385256dd400721ddd