Lotus Notes beta 8, and Eclipse
I saw this post by ZX on Lotus Notes 8 based on the Eclipse platform.
ZX says:
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In the end, this is great news for Eclipse which now gets to interact with a whole new set of users and developers.Eclipse (OSGi) on clients… devices… servers… , what’s next?
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OSGi is great on my desktop, laptop, servers, even mobile phones. But lotus notes based on OSGi ? I’m a die hard Eclipse fan and developer. But when it comes to usability of the software that I have to use everyday I’m a tough guy to convince.
For another potshot at this installer (for now) it is about 673 MB, is packaged as a .tar (Anyone at IBM lotus notes packaging team heard about something called as gzip/bzip2?) The documentation (which is about a total of 3MB) comes as a separate download. While it is a good idea to package the documentation separately I wonder if the installer comes with some documentation.
I just hope that I do not have to go through all these pains and musings and some more pains to install Lotus Notes 8. Especially after downloading something that is 673 MB.
Part of the reason that the install is large because it includes things such as the productivity tools (a suite of opendocument editors, think word, excel, powerpoint, etc…)
It also includes Designer I believe. You have a choice to install what you want when you do the initial install.
They have a beta forum if you want to give feedback on any problems you find: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf
Chris Aniszczyk
23 Mar 07 at 7:58 pm
Thanks for that information, ZX.
Ketan
26 Mar 07 at 10:05 am