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Last month I found the WorkPlace Beta 2 available for download on the IBM Partner World website. The download contained the new WorkPlace client that had been demo'ed at Lotusphere just a month earlier.
The download, however, disappeared fairly quickly off the site with no explaination and no sign of it returning. Everything has been quiet on the WorkPlace V2 front for the past month and now I know why...
An inside source at IBM has passed a bit of information my way to say that the Workplace client has been scrapped and that the Lotus Notes client is being retooled to allow it access a WorkPlace server.
The main reason given for the WorkPlace client being scrapped is due to the offline capabilities. As I reported last month the WorkPlace client installs a mini version of a WAS server to support offline users. The IBM source was quoted to say that 'No exec is going to lug around a server in their laptop bag to read email, retooling the notes client is the perfect answer, it's technology they are used to and it supports replication without the overhead of WAS'.
The WorkPlace V2 public beta, which was supposed to be available today has been defered for another month while the Notes client is being refitted with ActiveX controls that will allow it to present the WorkPlace interface within a portal on the clients startpage.
We will have to wait for further information when the beta arrives.
Comments
Posted by Ed Brill At 09:26:33 AM On 04/01/2004 | - Website - |
good one dec
Posted by jonvon At 06:39:02 PM On 04/01/2004 | - Website - |
As Ed rightly says the idea that the Workplace Client is to be scrapped is indeed completely ridiculous.
The little bit about fitting the Notes client with ActiveX controls to display WorkPlace is a little joke on the rumours that the WorkPlace Client demo'ed at Lotusphere used ActiveX to display Notes within WorkPlace
I Can't wait to see the real beta.
Posted by Declan Lynch At 12:41:07 PM On 04/01/2004 | - Website - |
Posted by Adam Osborne At 08:41:42 PM On 03/31/2004 | - Website - |
Happy to spread the fun around .......
Posted by Justin Knol At 09:52:38 PM On 03/31/2004 | - Website - |