Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 (8.5.1 FP1 IF1) - DAOS Fixes

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A series of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) issues have been identified and fixed by IBM. We recommend any customer running DAOS to apply this interim fix or release that addresses these issues. Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 is available that addresses these DAOS issues.
 
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A series of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) issues have been identified and fixed by IBM. We recommend that any customer running DAOS apply this interim fix or a later release that addresses these issues. Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 is available to address these DAOS issues.
The package can be downloaded from Fix Central:

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

8.5.1 FP1 customers can download and install Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 to receive the DAOS fixes before 8.5.1 FP2 is available. Customers already running with a Domino hotfix for issues not listed below should open a PMR to have a combination hotfix built. The hotfix would be on Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1, because that is a prerequisite baseline due to other DAOS content in that Fix Pack. The following table lists the hotfix versions per platform for this interim fix.

Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 (8.5.1 FP1 IF1) - DAOS Fixes
Platform        Hotfix #
Windows - Domino 32 Bit        851FP1HF41
Windows - Domino 64Bit        851FP1HF45
Unix (AIX) - Domino 32 Bit        851FP1HF42
Unix (AIX) - Domino 64Bit        851FP1HF44
Unix (Solaris)        851FP1HF43
IBM i V5R4        L502818
IBM i V6R1         L602824
RHEL and SLES        851FP1HF46

The fixes in this Interim Fix will be included in the upcoming Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 2 and Domino 8.5.2 release.

This Interim fix addresses the following SPR's:

SPR         Description
JGIR7ZH7J2         Performance issue with DAOS Prune
JGIR7ZHW5S         Error: The DAOS catalog cannot be resynchronized after a synchronization
WSCN7ZS4HJ         Error: Log File Full after a synchronization
DROO7YXTC3         Fix for DAOS missing report to consult the daoscat.nsf
WSCN7YJHRH        Rebuild issue with daoscat.nsf and daos.cfg
RAGG7W5HBF        Error: Document attachment is invalid trying to send encrypted mail
JPMS7TXJXM         Error: GeneratePathArray. PANIC: LookupHandle: handle out of range
DROO7XBS9B         Error: Log file is Full errors when compacting a database into DAOS
DROO7YANZ6        Opening an object in a DAOS enabled database returns the error "array index out of bounds"
DROO7ZNPZ8         QUICK mode for DAOS Resync


These fixes are also included in upcoming 8.5.1 Fix Pack 2 and 8.5.2.

Check this link for status on fix pack / maintenance release availability: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/%28Progress%29/851%20FP2

• That the code written will be reliable and secure
• That the product will not be marketed in a way that conflicts with Lotus' own marketing
• That the product will keep up with support for new versions of the Lotus products

Lotus Quickr 8.2 has not undergone complete System verification test with Domino 8.5.1. While development and test are not aware of any issues specifically related to the Domino 8.5.1 code stream, IBM has not performed sufficient testing to declare the latest Domino maintenance release supported.

The Domino 8.5 embedded version included with Quickr 8.2 continues to be the fully tested and supported Domino platform for current Quickr customers.

CRM software vendor Salesforce.com has rolled out the beta version of its Chatter application, which is designed to integrate enterprise collaboration with cloud computing and social networking, for around 100 customers to try the software on their existing infrastructure.

The company has designed the software in an attempt to compete with IBM's Lotus Live collaboration tool and Microsoft's SharePoint software, by offering Twitter/Facebook like social communications integrated with enterprise software to allow a better communication flow between the employees of an organisation.

Commenting on the launch of beta test version of Chatter, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com said in a statement that “Consumer internet services such as Facebook and Twitter have shown us better ways to collaborate. Salesforce Chatter changes the collaboration in the enterprise, without the cost and complexity of software.”

According to the official statement released by the company, Chatter enterprise collaboration tool is designed to allow employees to create their business profiles that will contain their contact details, work history and their respective areas of expertise.

“Be yourself.”  It’s one of the rules of social media. If you’re blogging, tweeting or Facebooking for business, be real—or you won’t be followed.

Yet, how do you pull off “authentic” while maintaining the company brand message?

It’s tough enough for a small business. What if you’re #2 on Business Week’s best global brands list, with nearly 400,000 employees across 170 countries?

At IBM, it’s about losing control.

No Policing

IBM does have social media guidelines. The employee-created guidelines basically state that IBMers are individually responsible for what they create and prohibit releasing proprietary information.

But the document lacks any mention of brand messages or values.

Nor does IBM corporate regulate employee social media activity. Only three people hold social media roles at the corporate level, and oversight isn’t part of their jobs.

“We don’t police. The community’s largely self-regulating, and so there hasn’t really been a need to have someone go about and circuit these boards and blogs,” Christensen said. “Employees sort of do that themselves… And that’s worked wonderfully well.”

The Payoff

IBM invests in creating its own social media tools. But it’s earning that back by monetizing some of those as part of the IBM product portfolio. The other part of the investment equation—employees’ time—doesn’t seem to be a concern, according to Christensen.

That’s because collaboration and knowledge make IBM what it is. And that’s a company with $12.3 billion in earnings on more than $100 billion in revenue with a 44.1% gross profit margin in 2008.

Christensen says to date there’s not an effort to tag a return on investment to its social media efforts.

“I think if you’d ask any senior executive at IBM, ‘How important is it for our employees to be smarter?‘, inherently they understand that these tools can play in helping with that,” Christensen said. “I don’t see myself rarely or ever having that hard conversation on the value of engaging employees in these spaces.”

Gartner Reveals Five Social Software Predictions for 2010 and Beyond

Analysts Share Best Practices for Embracing Social Networking at Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit 2010, 9-11 March in Baltimore and 15-16 September in London

STAMFORD, Conn., February 2, 2010 — “A lot has happened in a year within the social software and collaboration space. The growing use of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook by business users has resulted in serious enterprise dialogue about procuring social software platforms for the business,” said Mark R. Gilbert, research vice president at Gartner and co-chair of the Portals, Content and Collaboration (PCC) Summit. “Success in social software and collaboration will be characterized by a concerted and collaborative effort between IT and the business.”

Gartner offers five key predictions for social software:
1.        By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.
2.        By 2012, over 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include microblogging, but stand-alone enterprise microblogging will have less than 5 percent penetration.
3.        Through 2012, over 70 percent of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail.
4.        Within five years, 70 percent of collaboration and communications applications designed on PCs will be modeled after user experience lessons from smartphone collaboration applications.
5.        Through 2015, only 25 percent of enterprises will routinely utilize social network analysis to improve performance and productivity.

• The mini-keynotes are scheduled alongside the rest of the sessions.  If the mini-keynotes are to be in the category of 'not to be missed', then it doesn't work to schedule them alongside regular sessions.  For a start, the speakers in the other sessions cannot make the mini-keynotes, in fast the speakers in sessions before and after the mini-keynote probably can't make them either due to answering audience questions and setting up for their sessions respectively.  Secondly, there are 'not to be missed' sessions in the other tracks - in my case there was the Connections Next session with Suzanne Livingstone and others that clashed with the AppDev keynote.  I would have loved to see the AppDev session (featuring Bruce Elgort and others) but the Connections Next session is probably the most important one I needed to attend this year.
• They are of very variable quality and tone.  As Mitch has already noted, the Social Software mini-keynote was not up to the mark this year, in fact it has fallen short the past two years.  It was a massive opportunity missed to tell the real story of IBM's investment in Social Software, the innovation that is coming out of IBM Labs, the ways in which customers and partners are delivering outstanding Quickr and Connections solutions and much more.  Instead we had too many customer stories (including one that was just in the early stages of a pilot) that took too long to tell and the appallingly awful Flarepoint routine.  I spoke to a number of press and analysts in the press room afterwards, and they were not complimentary at all.  Of the other keynotes I attended, the LotusLive one was the highlight with Sean Poulley an excellent host.  Again, as others have discussed, I'm not convinced that the teleprompter is necessary for these sessions, but I bow to IBM/Lotus' greater knowledge of these things.
• There are no replays.  Given that the mini-keynotes may feature announcements, are 'not to be missed' and have the key executives and customer representatives presenting, it would make sense to me that they are repeated at least once during the week.  I do appreciate that these presenters have tight schedules, and may need to leave during the Lotusphere week, but it seems strange that other 'less important' sessions are repeated once and even twice, and yet the mini-keynotes are not.
• The presentations have not been released.  The majority of the session presentations from Lotusphere have now been released through LotusphereOnline, but the mini-keynotes are still absent.  I understand that the slides and animations used may be difficult to recreate as PDFs for download, but it surely must be possible.

• Replay the mini-keynotes each day.  All the mini-keynotes are recorded - cameras are present at all these sessions.  So, set aside a time each afternoon/evening, say alongside the BoFs art 6pm, when the mini-keynotes can be replayed.  Put each of the keynote sessions up in a different room, add them to the schedule, and then attendees that missed them can go an watch the replays before leaving for the social events of the evening.
• Make the recordings available as podcasts.  My personal preference is that ALL sessions at Lotusphere are recorded (for audio and/or video) and are released as podcasts through the next month of so.  This would be massive free publicity for the Lotusphere event.  However, as a minimum, make the mini-keynotes (and OGS) available to all attendees to download and watch at their own convenience, even on the journey home from the event.
• Make the mini-keynote presentations available - simple as that, and preferably on SlideShare as well as PDF.
• Review the quality of the mini-keynote sessions, particularly the Social Software one.  As I found out from the press and analysts, they are perhaps even more important than the OGS in helping outsiders understand the product portfolio, customer wins, strategy and vision for Lotus.  If a journalist, analyst or prospective customer is forced to sit through poorly delivered keynotes then they are unlikely to be interested to find out more.

• is assured of its place in the market, ready to compete head on with all the social/collaboration/appdev vendors, not just Microsoft
• is confident of its future, within the market, within IBM and under the new leadership of Alistair Rennie
• embraces and holds dear the rich history of Notes and Domino, and is definitive about its place in the brave new world of integrated always-on real-time social collaboration
• realises that Google Wave is a game-changer, and is ready to step up and face it head-on
• is becoming a greater influence on IBM as a whole, both through the industry focus on social collaboration in 2010 and beyond, and because of the continued stature of the previous 5 Lotus GMs
• continues to learn the significance of social media (blogs, Twitter and much more)
• fully recognises the importance of the Lotus community and the special (perhaps unique) relationship that Lotus software has with its user and partner base
• that now has one defined vision for all its products to work towards over the next few years - none of the other vendors has anything close right now.

Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says

Oracle must invest in the open-source suite, says Software Improvement Group

A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of the open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did.

According to a 12-page report published earlier this week by Amsterdam-based Software Improvement Group, the main risk is that OpenOffice.org's code may get buggier if Oracle pulls personnel and resources from OpenOffice.org after finalizing its acquisition of Sun.

Although Sun spun the productivity suite out to the open-source community in 2000, OpenOffice.org's development and marketing still relies heavily on paid Sun employees, such as OpenOffice.org community manager (and overall boss) Louis Saurez-Potts.

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He said the other risk is that Oracle, in its zeal to beat Microsoft Corp., could divert resources for OpenOffice.org toward a commercial version (see PDF) of the software or to a "fork" aimed at challenging Microsoft Office in the enterprise market.

"It all hangs in the balance, depending on what Larry Ellison and Oracle do with OpenOffice.org," he said.

Kuipers said a move to OpenOffice.org would be riskiest for large organizations, because the cost of switching would be high. Individuals and small businesses are less vulnerable, he said. He also noted that the risks do not apply to companies adopting Lotus Symphony, an IBM-led fork of OpenOffice.org, because it comes with IBM's backing.

IBM bakes Lotus Notes for Android

IBM isn't forgetting about Google's mobile OS after squeezing Lotus Notes onto the iPhone and the BlackBerry.

Big Blue has said that an Android-based app for Lotus Notes is now in the works. Deadline: before Microsoft makes its own Android-based app for Exchange.

Lotus Notes Traveler Companion, IBM's first application for the iPhone App Store, was announced on Monday at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, Florida. Companion is a free plug-in that lets iPhone users read their encrypted Lotus Notes email on the Jobsonian cult communicator.

IBM already offers support for Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry phones, so the odd-mobile-OS-out is Android-based devices. IBM plans to remedy this soon, beginning with a client for Google's Nexus One.

"We've been looking at our options here — a quick-fix approach to using the installed software on some of the Android-based devices, or a more serious commitment to building a full client," said Ed Brill, IBM chief of product management for Lotus software, on his blog.

Brill said IBM chose the latter approach, but the open source nature of Android makes creating the app a bit more difficult.

"The different providers can and will create their own distributions and installed software," Brill said. "As such, we're doing the engineering to do this right — and ahead of Microsoft, by the way."