IBM shows roadmap for Lotus Domino

Rethink IT, March, 2005

At its annual Lotusphere conference last month, IBM has extended its collaboration vision with an increased focus on tools. It is expected to unveil a new version of Domino Designer, the visual, script-oriented programming tool used to build Notes and web-based applications. Also on tap for Lotusphere: a new Workplace Designer scripting tool, details about Notes/Domino 7, and information about the next release of the IBM Workplace platform.

Lotus Notes and Domino customers have weathered much change during the past few years as IBM has inched more and more of its collaboration technology toward J2EE and WebSphere. Throughout that storm, IBM has reiterated its commitment to Lotus Notes and Domino technologies, while offering a standards-based collaboration vision for the future.

To that end, IBM affirmed support for Lotus' flagship development tool, Domino Designer

Version 7.0 of Domino Designer will gain capabilities to expose Notes/Domino applications, including Lotuscript, through Web services interfaces, said Ken Bisconti, vice president of Workplace, portal, and collaboration at IBM.