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Domino 8.5 fixpack 1 Heap Overflow via DOS attack

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Just saw this issue pop up on my crawlers. http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/lotus-domino-7-probably-8-ldap-heap.html No indication if this is specific to a particular operating system. Secunia, vulnerability intelligence provider, rates this as a moderately critical issue. It is currently unpatched. ©2016 Strongback Consulting

IBM Rational Products and WIndows 7 Support: UPDATED

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*** UPDATED 4/2/2010***  new support for Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Service Tester, Rational Quality Manager, ClearCase and ClearQuest The following is from the IBM Support site. For those preparing to deploy or run the SDP on Windows 7. Note that some products are also supported on a linux desktop environment. Microsoft Windows … Read more

LotusSphere 2010 – Blogging from the sidelines

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This year, I am sadly missing LotusSphere, IBM’s annual collaboration conference due to some prior commitments. Sigh. I am, however, very intently, watching the blogosphere and the twittersphere for updates, and it appears Lotus is making a LOT of new strides and releasing a dizzying array of new features for their software portfolio. Among those, … Read more

Making the installation of SNAPPS Templates much Quickr

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For anyone using Lotus Quickr (formerly Quickplace), the guys at SNAPPS have created some freely available templates for use. Whenever I install Quickr for a customer I often install these templates with the base installation as a bonus.After you’ve installed something repeatedly, you often think ‘hey.. I could script that!’. And so I did. You … Read more

IBM announces a new support portal

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For those (like me) tired of digging through dozens of different URL’s to find the right product support site for the right IBM product, fear no more. IBM has announced the new support portal open for business as of yesterday. As part of the IBM CIO transformation initiative, IBM has developed a best in class … Read more

Java EE 6 released

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After several years of development and LOTS of community involvement, Sun has announced the release of Java Enterprise Edition 6 or Java EE 6 for short. Please, please don’t call it J2EE anymore! There is a good article on the Sun Developer site on the new features of Glassfish v3 and JEE6. Another good presentation … Read more

Properties based configuration in WebSphere App Server 7

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One of the new features WebSphere Application Server 7 is its properties file based configuration. Since version 5 WAS has had a scripting interface called wsadmin (it was an xml interface in prior versions), which is accessed from the WAS_HOME/bin directory as wsadmin.bat or wsadmin.sh. This scripting interface allows live interaction with the server, or … Read more

147% ROI upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5.1

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Ed Brill posted this earlier today http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/147-roi-for-upgrading-to-notesdomino-8.5-forrester-webcast Forrester Research’s Ted Schadler and Jon Erickson spoke with numerous Lotus customers who had completed the upgrade, and calculated the economic benefits in aggregate. The result: An astounding 147% ROI for upgrading to Notes/Domino 8.5, with a payback period of only one year. This is a fantastic point … Read more