IBM has now launched a triumverate of new products. Lotus Notes/Domino 8 (aka Hannover), Quickr, and Connections. Ed Brill posted the news on his site yesterday (www.edbrill.com). Notes 8 was made available to the partners yesterday, and when I went to the site to download another product, the site seemed inundated, and I could not … Read more
I’ve recently done a project involving WebSphere Dashboard Framework. Version 6.0 of the product states that it supports Rational Application Developer 7 and RSA. Being that I run RSA, I wanted to install WDF into RSA. The problem is that the WDF InstallAnywhere does not recognize RSA 7 as a valid Eclipse instance, nor does … Read more
This is more for my own memory than anyone else’s. I installed RSA on my new Thinkpad and received an error message the next time I started it up. “jvm terminated exit code=1”. I think my problem was that Vista failed to properly suspend, and I shut it down as it was unresponsive. Subsequently, this … Read more
Got a heck of a deal on my new T61. Core2duo, 4GB, bluetooth, 100GB 7200 RPM drive, 15″ wide screen, DVD+-RW. All for $1800. Gotta love ebay. Anywhoo, my new machine has Vista Business on it. Being the Linux fan that I am, I am skeptical of it. I want to like it. Its got … Read more
We had a project recently where we have been updating an existing Java application and moving it from JBoss to WebSphere. Now some of you millennials may start thinking this is a backwards move, but its not. It is not one that I am working on, but rather something my colleagues are. Follow me on … Read more
InfoQ has an article about Geronimo passing the muster for Java EE 5.http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/geronimo-passes-cts To date the following Java application servers are at Java EE compatibility: JBoss 4.2 (not CTS certified, but JBoss says it supports JEE 5)BEA WebLogic 10GeronimoGlassfish (Sun Application Server)Oracle Application Server 11Apusic Application Server 5.0 (….and no, I’ve never heard of thus … Read more
Many thanks to Timothy J Masse who wrote down the directions and included a few steps I missed (like changing from dash to bash). Here they are step for step: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/f683185b98129dd7852572ea001db523?OpenDocument ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Optimus Solutions will be holding 3 separate Lotusphere comes to you events in Atlanta, Tampa, and Chicago. Yours truly will be presenting a couple of presentations: WebSphere Portal Express 6IBM has always excelled at products for the enterprise, especially when it comes to extremely scalable, high performance apps. WebSphere Portal is embodies exactly that approach … Read more
Ed Brill made the announcement last night on his blog. I have been running the beta on both my windows partion and my Ubuntu Linux partition. The Linux version of Notes has allowed me to work in my Linux partition near 90 percent of the time, which makes my computer a joy to use. Beta … Read more
After my experience at JavaOne, I now see the different types of revenue streams that can be generated off of open source software. Sun has certainly managed to increase their profits by doing so. Solaris adoption is increasing rapidly, especially now that there are forks of Solaris such as Nexenta (which is basically Ubuntu with … Read more