"The idea is to have the majority of application logic on the server but still have a data cache locally -- an open-source cache that is Eclipse-oriented -- and use standard synchronization to do the back-and-forth work," said a source.
Last November, IBM's Lotus Software group outlined the Domino and Notes road map, reaffirming -- after casting in doubt -- the company's commitment to the Domino and Notes product lines over time. The group also detailed the need for rich clients to do much of the heavy lifting, for which browser front ends are underpowered (see story for more on the Lotus product road map).
"They're putting serious money back into those [Notes and Notes Designer clients] projects," said one long-time Lotus partner. At Lotusphere, "listen to what they don't say. They won't talk about pushing people off Notes or onto an Eclipse-based replacement. Instead, they'll talk about an alternative Eclipse-based client," said one Lotus partner.
With the new bundle, IBM Lotus aims to pre-empt Longhorn, Microsoft's next-generation Windows client and server. The Longhorn client is available in early beta now, with full beta due out late this year. Microsoft hasn't yet discussed ship dates for the server.
In this "browser-plus" worldview, IBM is doing a lot of what Microsoft is promising in its time frame for Longhorn and its next-gen Yukon database, but IBM can support a Linux client. They are trying to "get the best of the browser experience plus local processing via Java runtime and also do data sync," a source said.
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