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IBM has put considerable effort into improving WebSphere programmability over recent years. WebSphere means Java, and Java, in the early days, meant "roll your own."

That has changed. One of IBM's most significant contributions to...

Mar 23, 2005
We would like to turn your attention, if we may, to a recent SearchDomino.com webcast that featured Notes expert Karen Fishwick. Fishwick examined various matters of Domino security, certainly a pressing concern as hackers of all...
Dec 29, 2004

IBM and Dassault Systemes have integrated IBM Lotus Notes and Dassault Systemes 3D XML technology. An upcoming release of the 3D XML Player will fully support Notes, according to the companies.

Dassault, based in France, produces...

Oct 7, 2005

Quest Software this week released Quest's Performance Management Suite for Java and Portals. While Domino users are still in the early stages of ramping up with WebSphere, it probably isn't too early to keep an eye on such J2EE...

Oct 6, 2005

Spam filtering continues to vie for the post of "Job #1" in IT shops worldwide. Recently, U.S. FTC commissioners hosted a two-day summit to grapple with e-mail authentication, once seemingly poised as a potent solution for the spam...

Nov 14, 2004

In a run up to the Lotusphere conference in January, where more details on the status of Workplace-Domino integration will be forthcoming, IBM today announced that at least 100 independent software vendors (ISVs) have built...

Nov 23, 2004

As demands on messaging infrastructure continue to increase, IBM Lotus Domino and Notes are in a position to gain added market traction, IBM's Ambuj Goyal told an audience at the Admin 2005 Conference in Boston.

As he touted the...

May 19, 2005

While software product after software product has been tagged with the WebSphere moniker over the years, products in IBM's tools catalog have been something of an exception. Not that they weren't rebranded for a while.

The set of...

Jun 2, 2005

WebSphere has been a remarkable market success story for IBM. Not too long ago, Big Blue was being urged to break up into separate companies. Although it spun off some of its properties, IBM remained as one entity, and began working to...

Apr 14, 2005

The big news in Notes-Domino last week was not literally in the Lotus space. Word was that Notes progenitor Ray Ozzie, who left IBM Lotus in the late '90s to form P2P collaborative software provider Groove Networks, had taken up an...

Mar 12, 2005

IBM is getting ready to unveil the final beta of its Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 platform at Lotusphere 2005 in Orlando, Fla., even as it directs attention to its Workplace platform initiative.

Scheduled to ship in the first half of this...

Jan 18, 2005

This week we'd like to provide a tip on how administrators can use SearchDomino.com. Obviously, "Search" is near and dear to us, since it's our first name. And we welcome you to use our search engine to navigate our site. But we recently...

Apr 13, 2005

Leading search engine Google Inc. has released software that will offer IBM Lotus Notes users the ability to search the full text of their Notes messages, both in email and instant messaging, as well as non-Lotus desktop files. The...

May 18, 2005

J2EE application servers as we know them today started their lives as middleware servers that connected back-end databases to front-end Web pages. IBM's WebSphere was no exception. It processed transactions, but it did not munch...

May 5, 2005

Last week, IBM acquired Apache Geronimo application server specialist Gluecode Software. This marks IBM's entry into the open source Java application server market. IBM sees special use for such software in small and medium...

May 19, 2005

Earlier this month, IBM told the world it had crossed a line of sorts as it could claim over 1 million users on the client side of its Workplace computing effort. Last week, the company said to date it has forged Workplace deals with...

Nov 24, 2004

During the last 10 years, the competition between IBM and Microsoft has dominated news in the computer industry. The year just passed was no exception. Even big stories like the Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft are ripples in the...

Dec 30, 2004

Venetica's middleware offering provides a link to digital assets that are stored in Lotus Notes. Documentum, FileNet, Hummingbird, Interwoven, Open Text and Stellent are among the other data repositories that the Venetica...

Jan 4, 2005

Confused about the future of Workplace and Lotus Notes/Domino? You are not alone. IBM's move to promote Workplace and Notes/Domino as two overlapping product families is creating bewilderment among customers, according to...

Nov 16, 2004

Notes and Domino admins, like their colleagues across the industry, are working harder these days to fine-tune their environments. Often, performance drags are due to a legacy of dormant user accounts and functions that are not...

Nov 11, 2004

Last year, SearchDomino.com asked several experts how LotusScript and Java played together in the real world of Lotus Domino development. The issue has been a stubborn one to ascertain, ever since Java came on the scene in the mid...

Jan 14, 2005

The big news out of IBM last week was the company's impending exit from the PC business. News, of course, is somewhat relative. IBM's sale of its PC business to China's Lenovo may be big news for old-timers who recall the tremendous impact...

Dec 10, 2004

Web content management software has become increasingly useful since the inception of the Web browser as a widespread client. But Web content management software is not inexpensive.

Recently, IBM Lotus moved to spread use of...

Jan 13, 2005

The Lotus community recharged its collective battery last week at Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla., where a new version of Notes/Domino, new Activity Explorer capabilities for Workplace and new Designer tools for both Workplace and...

Jan 31, 2005

IM, E-mail, slide presentations, word processing documents – these are among the desktop productivity tools people use these days to get work done. The variety of tools used by teams for collaboration and workflow, in fact, can...

Jan 23, 2005
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Considerations for deploying mobile devices on Lotus Notes Domino by BlackBerry
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