IBM i shops will have to make some noise before they become a higher priority. From that you might guess that this is a made-for-Windows-only feature. For now, the browser options are only Firefox and Internet Explorer. IBM i shops, and others with investments in Domino application development, will take an interest in this feature, but the IBM i advocates won’t be the first to be seated at the table. That means no rewriting or modifying apps and that is a notable amount of savings in time and money. It is built to run applications (not email) without modifications to the apps. The browser plug-in allows a version of the Notes client to run within a browser, therefore eliminating the need to have the full client installed. For example, both enjoy the same fresh user interface, a browser plug-in, the embedded application experiences, and single sign-on capabilities. For iNotes to rather closely mirror Notes is a leap forward. But let’s review the list of improvements over Notes/Domino 8.5 beginning with a much closer alignment between Notes and iNotes, (iNotes being the cloud-based option). A public beta program beginning in November let that cat out of the bag. New features are not exactly new in Notes/Domino 9. In its promotional materials (and who would ever expect grandiose statements to appear in such serious documents), IBM loves to follow up mentions of Notes/Domino Social Edition 9 with “the industry’s first truly social email client and delivers a social experience to users, whether using a browser or on the broadest range of mobile devices.” Truly social? That’s a warning to steer clear of email options that are insincere when telling you they give you social only to break your heart by coming up short. However, the tendency for all competitors in this race is to put the marketing cart before the technology horse. In the race to be more social than the competition, IBM has made some notable strides. There’s no bigger burden, we’ve repeatedly seen, than the burden of great potential.

And, being modern and all, it has the “Social Edition” tag on it. Now IBM is committing to a March release date for the software, which is being billed as the biggest Notes/Domino release in years. Its development cost is rumored to be as much as $100 million while spanning 18 to 24 months, depending on who’s spreading the rumors. There was a public beta version released in November last year. Notes/Domino Social Edition 9 has been talked about since Lotusphere 2012. Notes/Domino Social Edition 9 To Arrive In March

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