1. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino in 2008
Ed Brill
Business Unit Executive
Worldwide Lotus Notes/Domino Sales
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2. Agenda
 A brief history of Lotus Notes…
 Notes and Domino 8 – the road from “Hannover”
Release objectives
Key benefits
Customer success
 Upcoming in 2008:
Lotus Protector
Project “Atlantic”
Notes/Domino 8.5
 Q&A

3. Lotus Notes and Domino software: 20 years of leadership
in collaboration
 140 million seats have been sold
worldwide
 Used by more than 46,000
companies around the world
 IBM Lotus Notes® and Lotus®
Domino® software has seen FORTUNE Global 500: More than half of
fourteen consecutive quarters of
year-to-year growth from Q4 the global 100 corporations use Lotus Notes
2004–Q1 2008 and Domino software
 9 of the top 10 aerospace and defense corporations
 Lotus Notes and Domino are  8 of the top 10 automotive corporations
supported by over 10,000 IBM  8 of the top 10 banks
Business Partners worldwide, who  4 of the top 5 consumer products corporations
have thousands of integrated  7 of the top 10 electronics corporations
solutions running on it  8 of the top 10 insurance corporations
 8 of the top 12 pharmaceutical corporations
 From 2006 to 2007, the number of  9 of the top 12 telecommunications corporations
IBM Business Partners delivering
Lotus Notes and Domino solutions
more than doubled Source: FORTUNE 500, April 30, 2007; FORTUNE Global 500, July 24, 2006.

4. Lotus Notes and Domino software: a flexible and
comprehensive collaboration solution
Universal access
Remain productive regardless of location
Browser
Open application
Rich development
clients
Fully extensible,
standards-based
Collaboration Advanced
foundation collaborative
E-mail, calendar, capabilities Mobile
contacts Collaboration Instant messaging,
in context personal content
library, office
Seamless, productivity tools
uninterrupted workflow
Proven, reliable infrastructure
Security-rich, high availability, simple upgrades

5. Notes V1 – 1989
• Cost: US$62,500 for 200 users
• 35,000 users sold in year 1
 Early customers: Price Waterhouse, Arthur Andersen
• Platforms: OS/2, DOS 3.1/4.0, Windows 3.0 (Notes
1.1)
• Features and capabilities:
 A lot of the basics we still use today! (Directory, security/ACLs, doclinks,
OLE rich text objects, replication)
 Out of the box group mail, group phone book, and group discussion
templates
 @function development environment

6. Notes Version 2 – 1991
• Designed for scalability for
large customers
• Introduction of APIs
• Focus of Esther Dyson’s PC
Forum, March 1991
 Bill Gates referred to “Iris Notes” 
• Tradition of working on next
release before shipping
current effort began (V2
efforts started in 1989, V3
discussion started in 1991,
etc.)

7. Notes V3 – May, 1993
• At time of release, ½ million
users, 2000 organizations
• V3 the first “mainstream”
Notes release:
 Designed for scalability (though OS/2 /
Netbios origins limited…)
 Added:
 Mac client
 Threading
 Document hierarchy
 Windows server

8. Notes R4 – the first re-invention of Notes
 Evolution into client/server messaging product
 New UI, new messaging capabilities
 First “professional programmer” release
 Lotuscript introduced, new APIs, new tools (ViP)
 Pressure to evolve more quickly
 “Internet time”
 Introduction of major features in point releases
 Introduction of “QMR” process

9. Notes R4.5 and 4.6 – 1996
• First feature release since 1.1 within a major
release
• Introduction of calendaring & scheduling
• Separate download of “Domino”, a web
application sever add-on, available
 Domino shipped as Domino 4.6
• Added support for emerging internet
standards: POP, IMAP, LDAP, NNTP, HTTP
• Added support for many new platforms:
UNIX, iSeries, Novell

10. Notes R5 – March, 1999
• First major rennovation of the
Notes user interface
• Introduction of Java, Javascript,
CORBA/IIOP, native SMTP/MIME
• Introduction of separate Domino
Administrator tool
• Features released in interim
MRs:
 5.0.2: Linux server
 5.05: “Bluejay”
 iNotes Access for MS-Outlook, OLE/DB
connector, DNFS
 5.0.8: iNotes Web Access (now DWA)

11. Notes 6/Domino 6 – October, 2002
• Three years of development results in…
• Substantial user interface improvements
• Improved system administration
 Policy-based administration
 Server/performance monitor
• The beginnings of integrating with the rest
of the IBM Software portfolio
• Focus on mobility
 Domino Everyplace, EasySync, etc.
• The last “big” release
 Future releases faster, more focused

12. Notes 6.5 / Domino 6.5 – September, 2003
 Integration of Sametime instant messaging into Notes client at
no additional charge
 Awareness, presence capabilities
 A dozen “best of breed” end-user features
 Mozilla browser support, first foray into supported Linux clients
 More integration across IBM Software portfolio
 6.5.1 – An aligned server release
 QP, ST, Doc 6.5.1 all released within 90 days
 All supported on current, concurrent server level for first time

13. Notes 7 / Domino 7 – Released August, 2005
 Major update of Domino server architecture
 Massive scalability and performance enhancements
 Improvements to system administration and autonomic system management
 Activity trends, Domino Domain Monitor, policy-based administration, SmartUpgrade
 Introduction of Domino Web Services
 Limited introduction of DB2 as alternate data store
 Major update to Domino Web Access
 New incremental client features
 Autosave, multithreaded views, better window state management

14. Moving forward to Notes/Domino 8…

16. “Hannover” delivered as Notes 8

17. Lotus Notes 8 – core value propositions
 Modernized, best-in-class usability throughout the product
 The result of over 2,000 usability tests and 500% more usability resource than any
prior version of Lotus Notes
 Core mail, calendar, contacts, to-do, but also overall client UI
 An open client platform, which can leverage web services from any
back-end to form composite applications/”mashups”
 Expanding the definition of collaboration through inclusion and
integration of additional tools and components
 RSS reader, global search, Symphony editors
 Investment protection for Notes/Domino customers through full
compatibility and interoperability with prior releases and
applications

18. Collaborate in context from a single, customized view
Your in-box is a catalyst for productivity—moving from it interrupts your workflow and
introduces opportunities for distraction
Social networking—
blogs, mashups, activities
Instant Personal
messaging content library
Documents, Feeds,
presentations, My Widgets,
spreadsheets Live Text
E-mail, calendar, Collaborative and
contacts business applications

19. Quickly and easily access your most used
applications
 Lotus Notes
sidebar:
 Store and access
various applications
 Convenient
 Peripheral vision
 Deploy a variety of
plug-in applications
 Out-of-the-box
applications included
 Fully customizable with
your own applications

20. Notes 8 delivers composite applications
 Streamlines employee
workflow Composite applications = mashups for business
 Is easily customizable
Lotus Domino
 Supports role-based data
deployment
 Promotes application re-use
 Supports multiple
programming languages,
including Lotus Notes, Java Web service Enterprise system
client and .NET applications
Relational data
 Leverages high value at an
attractive cost
“ The plug-in approach is also compelling from an IT standpoint. With relative ease,
developers should be able to create plug-ins …” —Mike Heck, InfoWorld, August 23, 2007.

21. Expanded definition of collaboration
Documents, presentations Instant messaging and Personal content library
and spreadsheets presence awareness extra space
 Based on IBM Lotus  Based on IBM Lotus  Based on IBM Lotus
Symphony software Sametime® software Quickr™ software
 No licensing or  Locate expertise and  Include links instead
compliance concerns make decisions faster of attachments
 Integrated in Lotus  Integrated in context and/  Integrated in context and/
Notes software or used or in the sidebar or in the sidebar
on a stand-alone basis
(at home or at work)

22. “Right” featured office productivity applications
 Fully featured and easy to use
 Designed for the majority of
users
 Accessed in context, within your
Lotus Notes client
 Can be run separately
 Based on open technology
standards
 Supports OpenDocument Format (ODF)
 Supports Microsoft® Office files and other file
formats
 Output to Adobe® PDF files
 Support for Microsoft Windows® and Linux® ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony
platforms
 Application programming
interfaces (APIs) for integration
with other business applications

23. Increase responsiveness with integrated instant
messaging
 Leverage presence
awareness and instant
In-box messaging
Calendar  Integrate context
 In-box, calendar, contacts and
applications
 Sidebar plug-in
 Avoid additional charges
 Locate expertise and make
decisions faster
 Share urgent news
Contact
 Connect in realtime
“behind the scenes”
 Receive fewer e-mails
and voicemails

24. Organize and share content with a personal content
library
 Personal file sharing
 Integrated in context
 Save attachments into
private or shared library
 Send links instead of
attachments
 Sidebar plug-in
 No additional charge
 Can help reduce the
size of your in-box,
content duplication
and “version anxiety”

25. Domino Web Access “Lite Mode” – 8.0.1
 Dynamic interactive web client
 Modernized user experience
 Further exploits our AJAX based capabilities
 Web 2.0 design framework
 Ideal for travelling users
 Low bandwidth UI option
 User tools to help manage “email overload”
 Initial release planned for 8.0.1 will provide…
 Secure mail, Contacts, Day at a glance calendar
 More features coming in subsequent releases

26. Domino Web Access Lite Mode

27. Lotus Notes Widgets: Extensibility to context related services
 Google Gadget Integration
 Auto-recognition of text
 W idget Dashboard
 User configured wiring
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28. Where are Notes/Domino 8 at in the market
 Released 8.0.1 – February 2008
 Notes/Domino 8 deployments tracking ahead of
historical trends
 More customers have begun deployments of ND8 release-to-date than
prior releases
 Quality is higher: Fewer PMRs being converted to SPRs
 88 customer references for ND8 have been published or are in progress
 Notes/Domino revenue has grown year-to-year in 13 of
last 14 fiscal quarters
 Continuing to win new customers worldwide, especially
merger/acquisition/consolidation scenarios

29. Hear the buzz
“I show Notes 8 to people, they say, ‘Wow! That can't be Notes.’ The software’s
design, once very clunky, has been updated so that it’s clean without being
Web 2.0 trendy …” said John Head, Notes architect, PSC Group LLC .
— Eric Lai, Computerworld, March 2007
“Notes 8 has a clean new look, logical menus, and customizable layouts; for me,
this design makes the client easier to use compared to Microsoft Outlook.”
—Mike Heck, InfoWorld, August 2007
“… something that can morph
users’ inboxes into an integrated
workspace encompassing
calendaring, custom applications,
email, instant messaging and
office productivity tools.”
—Maggie Holland, IT Pro U.K., August 2007
“… the most significant release of
Notes in the last 10 years.”
—Peter O'Kelly, Burton Group,
SearchDomino, quot;Lotusphere 2007 refocuses
on users,quot; Eileen Kennedy, 12 Jan 2007

30. Notes/Domino 8.5

31. Notes/Domino 8.5 enters public beta
 Design partners (150+) have been
working with us on 8.5 for nearly a year –
even before ND8 shipped
 Public beta began Friday, May 30
 Accessible via http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/
nd85forum.nsf
 Release date: Q4, 2008

32. Notes 8.5
 Calendar enhancements
 iCal subscriptions
 Notes Person Calendars, Team Room Calendars, Activities (ToDos)
 Calendar overlays
 Roaming
 Expeditor features (e.g., Feeds and Widgets)
 File Server option
 All client settings in preferences panel
 Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Ubuntu support
 Import/export/forward vcards
 Notes Editor improvements
 Drag and Drop
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34. Goals of Domino 8.5
 Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through:
Simplifying Notes identity management
Reducing storage costs
Improving quality of service (QoS)
 while…
 Maintaining compatibility with existing
applications and infrastructure

35. Domino 8.5: Simplify Notes identity management
 Notes ID files have been a key consideration in managing end-user costs
and administrator workload
 However, they have also been the key to Notes/Domino’s highly secure
reputation
 Two new (optional) features will reduce the visible impact of the ID file:
 Shared login
 Notes users only need to remember a single password – their Windows password
 Addresses key customer concern regarding Notes end-user overhead
 Notes ID Vault
 Reduce costs and improve turnaround time for lost IDs, forgotten passwords
 Provides the ability to automatically reset Notes passwords, recover lost/damaged IDs

36. Domino 8.5: Reduce storage costs
 Storage costs consistently rate as one of the highest components
of Domino TCO
 New 8.5 features will help dramatically reduce disk usage,
especially redundant storage
 Domino Attachment and Object Storage (DAOS)
 Allows for single instance storage for attachments/objects present in multiple mail
files/applications
 Stored as files
– Allows for incremental backups
– No single point of failure
– Easy for administrators, no monitoring of file size
 Document compression
 Allow compression of Notes documents (also in 8.0.1)
 Disk space savings of 35%
 Significant cost reduction (storage, backup, etc.)

37. Domino 8.5: DAOS example
 Email with a 5Mb attachment sent to 12 people
on the same mail server
With DAOS, only 1 instance of the 5Mb attachment is written to
disk and stored
A disk space savings of 92%!
– Less network bandwidth used
– Less I/O
– Faster database operations such as compact
Prevents “Reply to All” scenario, where an attachment can be
sent, and resent again and again…

38. Domino 8.5: Improve quality of service
 Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)
Ease the administrative tasks concerning misconfiguration that
can lead to costly performance and security issues
Identify problems
Suggest potential solutions
Detect, analyze, and address potential problems before they’re
‘discovered’…
Extends autonomic work introduced in Domino 6, 7, and 8
Design partner reaction to this feature: Strong positive

39. Notes and Domino 8.5:
A premier platform for rapid application development
Security-rich, business-process-driven applications that enable people to collect, organize, share and track information
 Comprehensive and open
development environment
 GUI-driven, point-and-click
capabilities
 Supplied templates require
no coding
 Support for developers at every
skill level—Lotus, Java™ and
Eclipse software
 Centralized administration for
quick deployment
 Component reusability saves time
and increases responsiveness

40. State of the Art Web Technology
XPages: Web 2.0 meets Domino 8.5
 Leverages both advanced controls and scalable runtime
 Designed for generating modern Web applications
– Built-in Web 2.0 features
 Highly extensible, runtime and design time
 Solves problems expressed by the Domino community
 Known limitations are addressed
– UI/data separation, HTML generation control, server state, localization,
extensibility, etc.
 Same modern rendering technology targets multiple clients
 XPages is built on top of JSF, but simplifies JSF:
 Easier to Learn: Enables use of Scripting Languages (JavaScript, XPath,…)
 Adds other extensions (data sources, AJAX, Dojo, etc.)
 No deployment step needed – works just like other design elements
 And JSFs will run…

41. Look and Feel 1996

42. The Web has never looked better: 2008
Content is
brought out to
the view level
Action buttons are
directly associated
with content

43. Extended security capabilities with IBM Lotus Protector
The Lotus Protector security platform is a currently planned
integrated suite of security capabilities that would extend the
Lotus Domino e-mail environment, protecting the information
assets of an organization virtually everywhere in the messaging
chain.
Lotus Protector software
Lotus Protector Lotus Protector Lotus Protector Lotus Protector
For For
For For
Archiving and Data Loss
Mail Security Encryption Compliance Prevention
IBM Lotus Domino software
1
Currently planned for delivery in 2H 2008. This information is based on IBM’s current product
plans and strategy, which are subject to change by IBM without notice.

44. Enterprise application integration
Lotus Enterprise Integrator
• Designed to easily access and
view data from multiple platforms
• Integrate Lotus Notes and Domino
within one Lotus Domino application
8 software with the SAP Business
• Server-based data access tool,
Suite
providing data transfer and
• Access SAP information from your synchronization between Lotus
familiar Lotus Notes interface Domino software and
• Include customizable usage supported systems
scenarios
• Planned delivery in Q4 2008

45. Project “Atlantic” – planned use cases
New trip request Travel request pop-up Travel as Calendar entry
Travel Request for approval Travel Budget Report

46. Resources
 Notes and Domino home page at http://
lotus.com/getnd8now
 Notes 8 training materials at ibm.com/
developerworks/lotus/notes
 Notes/Domino 8.5 beta available today via
ibm.com/developerworks/lotus
 Access all Notes/Domino-related bloggers at
www.planetlotus.org
 Visit my weblog at www.edbrill.com

47. Thank you!
Ed Brill
ed_brill@us.ibm.com
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