Serdar Basegmez
Several weeks ago Volker Weber (one of the most popular and divergent bloggers in the community) blogged about XPages and its future.
Vowe mentions about a speculation of building WAS implementation about XPages. It reminded me a constant argument about 'thinking/marketing/selling Domino server as an application development environment'. BTW the argument is so old that Ed Brill blogged in 2003: "Another conspiracy element addressed" :)
At last, I have completed my research thesis for the graduate study at Management Engineering. Yesterday, the board decided I am done and able to graduate finally :)
About social capital:
This is funny. I frequently see this error page but don't know why...
IBM announced that Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1 FP5 packages are ready to be downloaded. The fix pack contains several critical fixes and is recommended for all 8.5.1 users. It is also incremental and contains all fixes in prior fix-packs.
Fix list contained by FP4 can be seen on: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/R5FixList.nsf/WhatsNew/f6845493d26dccb08525778f004e421a?OpenDocument
To download FP5: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24025721
Out of Office agent means problem for an average system administrator. Many users complaint their agent does not work properly. Sometimes, they simply don't wait to get response, or don't know they will receive only one response for each sender. However, in some cases the issue is related with the configuration of server, database or ACL.
IBM Lotus support released this useful tool to troubleshoot some basic issues. It also provides a couple of utility to fix multiple database ACL settings or configuration.
As warned on the technote, be careful to run the utility...
See the technote: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21296389
IBM has changed the licensing model at the beginning of 2010 and promoted Lotus Mobile Connect client licenses to enterprise customers. I have posted a Turkish entry about LMC and this is the English version with a little extension. I try to summarize some key features of this great product.
The image below is taken from my blog's stats database. It shows referrer information of my visitors.
Last week, I posted about the fastest upgrade of my life. Murphy's law worked again... "A working program is one that has only unobserved bugs ."
Now there are two serious problems with XPages applications that were designed for 8.5.1...
Lotus community frequently discuss IBM's capability to market Lotus products. However, an important point is missing in the discussion. Lotus is a corporate brand and is not being marketed to end users. On the other hand, the competitor has the ability to address both consumers and companies.
In the background, it should be investigated how end users are influential on corporations' investment decisions. In a classical approach, end user is just a small factor, running behind other aspects like the return on investment or total cost of ownership. Is it that simple?