This Week: Season of system swaps

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Published by SearchDomino.com  November 08, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Season of system swaps >> Featured Topic: The future of Domino >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Alex Homsi, Transitioning from Domino to J2EE Site Exclusives: >> Sametime gets plugged-in to Trillian >> Partners shoulder hopes for Domino's future >> Chapter Download: _javascript_ security Tips of the Week: >> Customizing 'No Documents Found' message without _javascript_ >> Aligning a radio button >> Site Highlights: White Paper: BlackBerry best practices Interact with your peers Sign up for administrator tips  From the Editor: by Jack Vaughan, Editor If a hammer is all one has, all problems look like a nail. You've probably heard that _expression_. Variations on the theme play out every day. Why do we worry about new CIOs or Chief Architects on the premises? Well, the solution to a department's problems usually looks like the last system they worked on, right? And when consolidation and migration are in the cards, there is more impetus to "get out the hammer." The mandate for consolidation is always with us, and it is naturally a time to look at updating or even swapping out established platforms. For a look at one way that can play out in the Domino world today, see Expert Technical Advice cited below in this newsletter issue. A Microsoft migration seems always on the burner somewhere. It is a particular problem in the Domino and Notes world these days, where competitive Microsoft products are increasingly more familiar to more people. These days, the Domino developer is under double the pressure to roll out new revs, create new user functions, fix bugs and tune performance -- because the Microsoft advocate is ready to say: "Why don't we just rip it out and start over?" Such projects can become very black holes, and platform politics can overwhelm good engineering sense. One thing that can help the Domino and Notes communities is a renewed effort on the part of IBM/Lotus to update the platform. When IBM took over Lotus in 1995, it did only a fair job of picking the easy fruit in the marketplace. Without Notes Godfather Ray Ozzie, the innovation in Domino and Notes have been slightly lacking. This week, IBM will disclose much more on Workplace, its effort to innovate this key platform into the next computing era. IBM's initial efforts to promote Workplace should at least slow down some CIO's eager to pull the plug on Notes. Will Big Blue follow through? That is one of the major stories we will be following. Have you encountered managers hell-bent to displace Domino? Do you have questions about IBM's Workplace plans? As in the past, be assured: We are here to make sure your voice is heard and your questions are answered. We always want to hear from you, so send us an e-mail. Regards, Jack Vaughan  Featured Topic: The future of Domino by Eric Parizo, News Editor Is the decline of Domino impending and inevitable? Will Workplace replace Domino as IBM Lotus' next-generation collaboration environment? We take a closer look in this featured topic. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Alex Homsi Category: Transitioning from Domino to J2EE Dear Alex: I would like to hear examples of applications moved from Domino to WebSphere/J2EE. There is so much hype around WebSphere, how is it being used for "smaller" applications? Click here to read Alex's expert response or ask a question of your own. Site Exclusives: >> Sametime gets plugged-in to Trillian A new plug-in from IBM Lotus enables Trillian Pro users to access Sametime IM servers, a move that Lotus hopes will expand interest in its enterprise IM software. >> Partners shoulder hopes for Domino's future The IBM Lotus partner program has had its share of ups and downs, but a renewed effort to support smaller partners and help them utilize all of IBM's resources is already receiving a warm reception. >> Chapter Download: _javascript_ security In this chapter from _javascript_: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, by Thomas Powell and Fritz Schneider, you will learn about data validation, cross site scripting vulnerabilities, sandbox approaches that restrict script execution environments, the signed script policy, different behaviors of different browsers and Intranet versus Internet browser security strategies. Tip of the Week: Customizing 'No Documents Found' message without _javascript_ This tip shows you how to use a WebQueryOpen agent to see how many documents there are in a view and then pass that value back to the $$ViewTemplateDefault form. Aligning a radio button This tip shows you a simple trick that will help in aligning radio buttons by removing the unwanted breaks Domino generates. >> Check out all our tips.  Site Highlights White Paper: BlackBerry best practices Learn how to successfully deploy BlackBerry while meeting your existing security requirements. This will also cover how to quickly resolve user issues. Read this white paper. Interact with your peers Join ITKnowledgeExchange to share ideas, expertise and get answers to your technical and strategic questions from other IT pros. Visit today. Sign up for administrator tips Subscribe today! Get secret hints from Domino and Notes administrators on various administration issues in this free weekly newsletter. 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