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| DOMINOPOWER MAGAZINE - MAY 1999 |
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Open source alternatives to Notes and Domino: are they real?
You learn something new every day or so. For example, we just learned from Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows that there are open source projects aimed at creating alternatives to Lotus Notes and Domino. What these projects aim to do is nothing less than what Linux has done to the server market: be one freely available thorn in the side of the big software companies. So are there really good alternatives to Notes and Domino? Should you chuck your R5 distribution and get ready to compile some open source code? Better read this article now.
The unofficial I AM Photo Journal
Lotus' I AM ad campaign seems to have sparked something very primal in some people...an urge to run around with I AM signs and have their photos taken. Because of this, the official Lotus' I AM Photo Journal contest was born. Judging is now over and you can see the official winners on Lotus' site. But the only place you can see some of the more creative submissions -- those that didn't meet Lotus' official standards for publication -- are here, inside DominoPower. Special thanks to the Web team at Lotus for giving us, once again, an exclusive Inside Scoop.
Sorting documents via Notes and the Web
Contributing Editor Dan Velasco is back with another of his incredibly useful articles. This time, he takes you inside the deep, dark reaches of LotusScript to teach you how to build sorting functions for Web pages in Domino. If you want to truly tap the power of Domino, you should read this article. All that, plus we managed to figure out how to legitimately include Pauly Shore's name in an article in DominoPower. You'll just have to read the article to find out how -- and why.
Intelligent front-end hosts for SMTP
This article is the second in a three-part series covering Domino and Internet email. Last month Technical Editor Ron Herardian explained capacity planning issues for Internet email. This month's article describes front-end solutions that allow centralization of SMTP services and that ease migration to Domino from cc:Mail.
An easy way to build your own simple, text-based Domino hit counter
Web page hit counters are popular; it doesn't matter in how many flavors they appear. In March, DominoPower ran an article about how to create a graphical hit counter (graphic images of the numbers would change). In this article, Frank Cseh shows how to write a simple text-based counter. This is one those DominoPower articles you can read now and put to use in about 10 minutes.
Why I recommend Domino over Exchange
Once again, we revisit the subject of Exchange vs. Domino. In this article, Technical Editor Ron Herardian tries to look at the deployment of Exchange vs. Domino and which has the better solution. As you can tell from the title, he recommends Domino. Read the article to find out why.
DOMINOPOWER SITE OF THE MONTH
INAP.com.au
DominoPower Magazine's Site of the Month for May is INAP (the International Network for Acid Prevention). INAP is an organization with membership that includes 16 mining and mineral companies from around the world. The goal of this organization is to undertake research and development to control the world's acid drainage from mine materials. This site makes extensive use of Domino resources and is a good example of Domino in action. Check it out!
GUEST EDITORIAL
What's up with Papows?
Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal did an article about the president of Lotus Development, Jeff Papows. For those of you that don't know about the article, it accused Mr. Papows of exaggerating his military record in the Marine Corps, misrepresenting his education and perhaps strangest of all, claiming to be an orphan when he isn't. We asked Senior Technical Editor Richard Echeandia to provide some perspective on this issue. For a good, objective analysis of the issue, you should read his guest editorial today.
BUSINESS PARTNERS SPEAK OUT
If I ruled Lotus…
Now that R5 is shipping, we (of course) have to ask Lotus, "What have you done for us lately?" Or more precisely, what are you doing next? Where exactly does the Notes/Domino dynamic duo need to go? What would you do if you "ruled" Lotus? OK, so Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz thought it would be fun to make everyone dye their hair green, but that's why we instead asked our intrepid Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burrows (a man with much more self control than our esteemed EiC), to take a stab at the future of R5 from an architectural perspective. And no…no pink hair either. Sorry, blue is also out.
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