This Week: Battle of the Titans

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January 03, 2005 Published by  SearchDomino.com This Week NEWS     TOPICS     ITKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE     TIPS     ASK THE EXPERTS     WEBCASTS     WHITE PAPERS     IN THIS ISSUE:   > From the Editor: Battle of the Titans   > Featured Topic: Top 10 administrator tips of 2004   > ITKnowledge Exchange: Domino server memory leaks   > White Papers: View this week's featured White Papers   > Webcasts: View this week's featured Webcasts   > More From SearchDomino: Expert Scott Lemieux, a 2005 outlook and more! FROM THE EDITOR Battle of the Titans [Jack Vaughan, Editor] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 wake of the larger IBM-Microsoft conflict. Though the competition is fevered, both Microsoft and IBM take care in choosing the battlegrounds on which they confront one another. Perhaps as a result, each has gained ground during their years of conflict, while many players, big and small, have ebbed. XML-based Web services have proved to be a very agreeable field for the two giants. They have agreed to standard after standard. If Web services provide a simple means to interoperability between these two big platform providers, many IT shops will be glad. It is too early to say if it is really all that simple. We will keep an eye on this in 2005. When Microsoft made its first big inroads into enterprise-wide server-based computing, its Exchange software system played a big role. It was no juggernaut. IBM saw the value in Lotus Notes and competed with Microsoft -- some would say a little lukewarmly -- in the enterprise e-mail space. See Roots of Notes An IBM-backed Notes was able to hold its own. Today, IBM and Microsoft messaging systems are at about parity. People continue to produce position papers comparing Microsoft Exchange with IBM Lotus Domino Notes, but the comparisons this time truly are of the apples-to-oranges variety. People have faulted IBM's Notes Domino road map; but, remember, there is plenty of fault cast at Microsoft's road map these days as well. Some folks suggest that the Redmond crew is not as steely-eyed with grim resolve as in past years. See Where is IBM Lotus going with Workplace? Microsoft has stalked high-end providers throughout its history. Now it hears steps from below -- these would be Linux footsteps, this time on the desktop. One feather in the IBM Lotus cap and one thorn in the Microsoft side is desktop Linux. Even people who counted out desktop Linux not too long ago are ceding it as a possible competitor now. Microsoft is getting the kind of competition that can be really troubling. No one has done more to promote Linux on the server side than IBM, although it has not truly yet taken on Microsoft with a fiery Linux desktop offering. Remember, Workplace runs on Linux, and it could be just such a fiery competitive offering. See 2005 outlook: Desktops to see Linux, search war and more spyware Domino Notes advocates should take some heart here. Even if IBM's emerging Workplace effort has muddied up Lotus waters, the Lotus Group is clearly behind the effort to create a new generation of collaborative application infrastructure software. It is the Domino administrator and developer that organizations will ask to enable Web conferencing and the like. IBM continues to grow that effort, and from within the Lotus group. The Microsoft developer has to pick from all over the map to deliver real-time collaboration. It is no small coincidence that Microsoft recently scheduled an ad hoc Office developer conference to come just on the heels of Lotusphere. Microsoft has to be concerned that Workplace is coming up to speed at a time when its comparative offering is a deck of PowerPoint slides. While the plan may be sound, Lotus group head Ambuj Goyal and crew have work ahead of them. We will cover this closely in the year to come. Happy New Year, with health, happiness and prosperity, from all of us at SearchDomino.com. FEATURED TOPIC Top 10 administrator tips of 2004 [Beth Rosenberg, Assistant Editor] When you need administrator advice, SearchDomino's Administrator Tips section is the place to turn. We've gathered the most popular administrator tips submitted by our members and experts in 2004 and listed them all right here. > Check out this Featured Topic ITKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE Domino server memory leaks Have you ever had problems with Domino server memory leaks? Click here for a few suggestions from members of ITKnowledge Exchange. > VISIT ITKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE  FEATURED WEBCASTS Live Webcast: LotusScript 101 WHEN:   Jan. 12, noon EST (17:00, GMT) SPEAKER:   Dave Hatter, President, Libertas Technologies SPONSOR:   Today's News   > VIEW ALL WEBCASTS  FEATURED WHITE PAPERS Improve Efficiency with Fax Integration for IBM Lotus Notes Published by: Captaris, Inc. > VIEW ALL WHITE PAPERS MORE FROM SEARCHDOMINO ASK THE EXPERTS: Ask Scott Lemieux: Integrate Domino 7 beta with DB2 [Enterprise Integration Expert] Dear Scott: How can I integrate Domino 7 beta 2 with DB2? I want to use the new technique that IBM provided with Domino 7 beta 2 to access the DB2 database. Click here to read Scott's expert response. SITE EXCLUSIVE: Roots of Notes Lotus Notes reached its 15 birthday this month -- a notable plateau for any technology. But the road really began long before Lotus' Notes roll out in 1989. Notes can be traced to the early '70s, long before the IBM PC and the desktop revolution. SITE EXCLUSIVE: Where is IBM Lotus going with Workplace? Workplace was the big news in the world of IBM Lotus in 2004. A Q&A with Gartner's Tom Austin helps illuminate this 'star in the making.' SITE EXCLUSIVE: 2005 outlook: Desktops to see Linux, search war and more spyware TechTarget group publisher Paul Gillin offers up his annual predictions for the year ahead, and forecasts a pay hike for IT pros, a potential new owner for Apple and the rise of Linux, spyware and searching on the desktop. TIPS: WebSphere portal makes Web services practical Much of the talk about Web services assumes that all corporate IT developers have a deep understanding of Web services and a lot of time on their hands. For the more typical developer working in the real world, however, Web services hasn't seemed like a terribly practical, or at least useable, concept. But there is a very real way to make practical use of Web services -- right in your WebSphere portal. TIPS: Copy attachments in LotusScript without detaching This tip shows you how to easily copy file attachments from a current Web document to an existing document (it can be modified to work for the Notes client by changing the docSource object). Contact Us Sales For sales inquiries, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ABOUT THIS E-NEWSLETTER This e-newsletter is published by SearchDomino.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. 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