Well, Lotusphere 2009 came and passed, and what an event!!  There was so much information to gather, and too little time to hit all the sessions.  Suffice it to say - there's some GREAT stuff out there for you all in Notes/Domino 8.5 and in all our extended products!  It's going to be a great year!

For our first entry after the fabulous Lotusphere 2009, Russ Holden, Lotus Domino Chief Architect and IBM Distinguished Engineer wanted to say a few words and provide you all with an update on one of his presentations.  

Lotusphere 2009 was a huge success for the Domino team.  The reception of Domino 8.5 and its key features and messages was overwhelmingly positive.  In particular, the two major features which customers can deploy immediately - DAOS and XPages, were big hits.  Notes ID Vault was also extremely well received and recognized as a game changer for ID file and password management.  And, of course, we got a lot of feedback about what we still need to do and starting immediately (or Monday anyway) we'll get to work on the next big set of needs.

To follow up on a promise I made I'm posting the slides from the ID204 ("How to Reduce Disk Costs using Domino 8.5") that Nirmala Venkatraman and I did.  We made very heavy changes to our slides from the time of the initial posting to allow us to test Domino 8.5 Gold code and we wanted to make sure we presented the latest and greatest performance data.
- Russ Holden, Lotus Domino Chief Architect and IBM Distinguished Engineer


Thanks so much, Russ for posting your presentation and for everything you and your team has done on Domino 8.5 - it's truly an amazing release!

You can find Russ' slides here...id204_blog.odp