Lotus Unveils Domino R6

IBMs Lotus Software Group formally took office on Tuesday opened a long-awaited version 6 (R6), and its Notes and Domino messaging and collaboration products. Major improvements Notes / Domino, because the Lotus product update nearly three years ago, involved targeting lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Alan LEONG lepofsky, software product manager for Lotus R6 domino launched the enhanced support for server consolidation, along with its new tools for policy-based management, as only two strategies, which proposed the lotus , domino to reduce the total cost of ownership.

To facilitate the migration from existing Domino R5 system will support Lotus Domino R6 first time in the version of the coexistence between different versions of the domino, lepofsky confirmed. James kobielus According to a senior analyst at Burton Group consultancy, both Lotus and Microsoft have been struggling to encourage users to upgrade to a new version of the messaging and collaboration products.

"Most companies have a huge investment, whether it is a domino or exchange, they want to stay in these products and speed too slow or systematic migration or upgrade these products¡­¡­ they do not upgrade synchronization of the new firms The statement, "his views, and speculate about two years time, even if only in Notes / Domino R4 users to upgrade to the R5, said:" I suspect that this may be more than one quarter of the Exchange 5.5 [store] has been upgraded to Exchange 2000, and now, whether it is. " Noting that the new compression capability, lepofsky argued that the environment could be reduced bond domino related to the transport network from 35 to 50 percent. Compression, but also reduce the domino server to the server network traffic 25-30%. This is a benefit to help clients to consolidate Domino server, lepofsky argued.

"Amount of users, they can on a particular machine has been significant improvement, because things like [network compression]," he said.

In addition, lepofsky at the end of domino unrelated to the sharing of clustering capabilities - make it possible to have failed, from one server to another across the WAN - left by the incomparable, and its closest competitor, Microsoft "Domino environment, the cluster is the real fault switching and restoration of the entire server failure," he asserted, and stressed that the lotus can also support fault between heterogeneous operating systems. "We can cluster an AS/400, and Linux boxes, and troubleshooting [from one to the other]" domino and also runs counter to the Windows server.

Lotus is to support spam blacklist into the domino R6. What does this mean, Burton Group kobielus is domino will be able to send junk e-mail traffic from domain names or IP addresses of known spammers. Once again, he pointed out that Lotus is the future of Microsoft, because Microsoft has promised to launch a similar anti-spam equipment, in its forthcoming version of the Titanium and Kodiak Stock Exchange - but has not provided details. Microsoft is expected to provide more detailed plan, in the Microsoft Exchange Conference next week in Anaheim, California "[Lotus] has taken the lead here, in a sense, Microsoft said, the domino is R6 Now shipping, but do not forget that Microsoft has already promised to provide anti-spam features, titanium, too, "he says.

Restructuring collaboration tools Lotus also use this opportunity, the domino R6 announced quickplace and update its Sametime collaborative product, and.

Updated its Lotus Sametime instant messaging (IM) and collaboration product version 3.0. In the new Sametime instant messaging Gateway 3.0 is support for the Session Initiation Protocol for instant messaging and presence as a lever to expand the role (simple) agreement, which lepofsky that makes it possible for the exchange of Sametime, and other instant messaging products, support simple standard.

This means that users of Microsofts Windows XP client environment - which ships with a simple function of the IM client, M SNM essenger - can use a simple function in the L o tusSa metime in 3.0 that is not possible Microsoft to them in the E x change20 00 of messaging and collaboration server.

"Microsoft has a simple function of client products in the market with Windows XP, but, unfortunately, Microsoft is not a [simple] stack under the exchange or in accordance with its MSN Messenger service," said Peter Leighton Group kobielus.

Cooperation in other places, Lotus reorganization quickplace 3 will ship with a Java and XML-based API that now make it possible to embed teamwork ability, in Web applications.

New pricing model January, the lotus domino will begin pricing based on a per CPU basis. Currently, the domino R6 publications will be 894 US dollars per server -2 308 U.S. dollar is the domino server application server. The two sides will require an injection or inotes client access license (CAL) for users, lepofsky recognition. Lotus also market domino server utilities, despite costs as high as 11,750 US dollars per CPU, and does not require the CALS. Lotus Sametime and quickplace collaboration applications are priced per user basis, in the 38 US dollars and 39 dollars, respectively. According (Marcel nienhuis, market analysts Communications consultancy firm Radicati Group, Lotus, now has a lower initial acquisition cost than its nearest competitor, Microsoft Exchange, though he would not speculate as to how Lotus # 39 re-pricing model will affect the overall cost of ownership, whether indicate that the two nienhuis SMS platform, will continue to "three pillars", from the cost.

"We have done a TCO study last year, we Lotus is a little bit cheaper than the Microsoft acquisition costs, but it also more expensive than it is the lotus management management company. during the past three years, we have found that the TCO is the main difference between the two sides three yuan. " Radicati estimates that the collective, Lotus and Microsoft control 80-85 per cent of the SMS market. to the latest news as it shows that nienhuis confirmed that bodies found Radicati, Microsoft has surpassed the total number of the Lotus client license.

" new release of the lotus, perhaps things may change things or transfer favor of the bond, but as of now, we have several million advance Microsoft [seats, "he confirmed.

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