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And now, back to the Universal Rich Client discussion

By Andrew Pollack on 10/18/2004 at 09:29 AM EDT

I think if you look through this presentation document you'll see why I'm so excited.

Here's some highlights:

1. There is a huge unserved market of people who used to use greenscreen terminals and now use bad web applications or really bad customer programs. The airline ticket desk people, back tellers, and thousands of customer service reps all over are among them. Workplace, running on Universal Rich Client serves them very well. These are, in many cases, shops that are just not going to use Domino. Period.

2. Lotus Domino / Notes is on an equal footing in this client with the Lotus Workplace client. They use the term "Plug in" but that's just bad language, not an accurate description from a marketing sense. The "Eclipse Framework" is what the rich client sits on. That part is open sourced. Sitting on that are a set of services that are IBM specific, which make it the "IBM Workplace Rich Client" (aka Universal Rich Client). Notice no "Lotus" in that part of the name? The Lotus Part comes next. Sitting on top of the IBM Workplace Rich Client (IWCT-RE = IBM Workplace Client Technology - Rich Edition) are applications. One of those client applications is "IBM Lotus Workplace" and another is "IBM Lotus Notes". Now, workplace is of course more tied into the eclipse framework than is Notes, because it was written for that purpose -- but Lotus Notes is fully operational and on equal footing within the IWCT-RE platform.

3. The Notes 8 client -- indeed the IWCT-RE "Notes Plug-In" for IWCT-RE 2.5 -- will be a truly usable and workable Notes client. Why? Its the same core code. Most of the client code doesn't change at all. Starting in Notes 7 beta M2, the client DLLs contains the necessary features to allow the IWCT-RE plug-in to "RE-PARENT" the actual core code dialogs and desktop and other UI stuff into the right panels of the IWCT-RE platform. That means you have a TRUE Lotus Notes client running in there. A little bird told me that even your old LSX's should still work -- but don't bet the farm on it because nobody knows for sure yet on that one.

The stated goal, publically, for the 2.5 version of IWCT-RE is that if you've got IWCT-RE on the machine and also have Notes 7 beta m2 more later, You should -- if you want -- never have to load your Notes Client outside of IWCT-RE unless you want to. Designer and Admin Clients are still distinct however.

It looks to me like the Notes 8 Rich Client version is going to rock.

Later today or tomorrow, I'll talk about why this is so cool for ISV's and high-end developers!


HTAD2004-IWCT-RE.PDF


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