There has been some commentary in this blog and elsewhere about Lotus Domino and System i,  especially regarding Domino DB2  integration. To help better inform everyone, here is some additional information on our Domino plans relating to the current and future Lotus investments on  the System i platform.

Lotus is very committed to the System i platform for Domino and other Lotus products. We also continue to add new capabilities to other Lotus products on System  i and have recently released not only Domino 8, but Quickr 8 and Sametime 7.5.1 on System i.  Lotus does not plan to deliver DB2 integration on Domino for System i  or other platforms beyond the Microsoft Windows, AIX and  Linux platforms  which were delivered in 8.0   The additional resources and time required for a complete implementation of NSFDB2 on System i  are very significant.. You should also be aware that Domino NSF stores remain the most efficient high performance storage option for most Notes and Domino applications and we will  further tune NSF in future releases fo the product.  LEI and DECS are also viable solutions for integrating Domino and other data sources on the System i platform.

Our Domino development resources are very busy working on many new features driven by customer feedback and benefitting all users,including System i customers. We are focussed on several key areas such as simplifying security and ID management, directory openness and NSF storage reductions. more details of these plans will be unveiled at Lotusphere 2008.

This plan is based on the priorities and feedback of the broad market and our customer needs. IBM remains very committed to Lotus Domino and the System i platform.


Note from author. I'll be out of the office on vacation next week,  so I cannot promise immediate response to any comments or questions posted here.