Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Making the case for Xpages


XPages has not triggered much enthusiasm yet. I mean in my "part of town". This could be due to technology uncertainty, "Nobody use Notes" or just plain "we don't have the need it or have the money for that".

Now should the market today set the course for your inhouse training program?
Should you postpone or even drop Xpages all together?

This could be a grave mistake.

Project Vulcan will be the new Notes Client. With it's Facebook-like look, it will be a tool for consolidating information to what you need in your role/work.
It's not a new idea at IBM; it's the next logical step moving away from composite applications (now abbandoned?) in the notes client. Even with the latest IBM Lotus Notes Client client you may find information too fragmented and scattered. Project Vulcan aims to change that.

It's a more tight integration of mail, documents,IM, Profiles, Bookmark etc.


Take a note of this:
Chris Miller's blog post "Project Vulcan - say goodbye to the Notes Client?" has a twitter response from Ed Brill:


"For Notes and Domino, we continue to build a Notes client in the next two feature releases,
in addition to building a first-class web and mobile experience."

and:

"GROUP is promoting tools to quickly transform Notes Applications to Xpages. Webinar is coming soon."


We could in a few years see that Project Vulcan is a success, it will be what IBM will push to the customers. It will be the client platform that support integration with IBMs offerings in the cloud. As for your in house Domino aplications? You'd better start lifting them to Xpages soon...

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