Today I ran into an article about the future release of Lotus IBM SameTime. It seems this (part of) the platform is fully moving from Domino to “standardised middleware” as the article indicates. Can I draw the conclusion that more ‘moving parts’ based on different technologies are being introduced ? No doubt it will still be able to fully integrate, but still it requires different (platform) knowledge and expertise … costly …
… IBM Sametime switching from Domino platform to J2EE middleware …
… IBM announced in January it was developing a Sametime Linux client based on its Eclipse framework, and a Linux desktop client for Sametime is set to be released this month as part of Sametime 7.5. The company says it will release in the first half of 2007 a yet-to-be-named version of Sametime whose platform will be based on components of WebSphere, IBM’s DB2 database and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. The new version will align with IBM’s service-oriented architecture and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) middleware infrastructure. It will be the first version to run on Linux and will give IBM a real-time client and server that support the open source operating system.
Users won’t have to build a full J2EE, multitier environment, IBM officials say; instead, the Sametime install routine will run as usual and load only the WebSphere and DB2 components that support the server….
… “When you say something like, this is the last Domino version of Sametime, I kind of am queasy, but at the same time that is a fact,” Fontaine says. “But we have really good instant messaging that you see in Sametime 7.5 and that is still hooked into Domino, and all those things will carry forward to the J2EE environment.”…
Source : Networkworld : IBM revamps SameTime
