Introducing DomCastr An Enterprise Twitter Server For Domino
Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:32 AM
Twitter is getting more and more popular and it is starting to reach into the enterprise, IBM has an internal system called BlueTwit and Oracle have been working on a system called OraTweet and there are other hosted systems available like Yammer and now I am pleased to introduce you to DomCastr, a Lotus Domino based twitter like server.
As more companies look at enterprise twitter like services they need to make a choice, they can select to use a hosted service, with the risk that the service goes down or is compromised or they can elect to deploy an internal system which means making sure the infrastructure is there to support it.
If your running Lotus Domino then it makes sense to look at a system that you can deploy over your existing infrastructure and that's where DomCastr comes in as the first Lotus Domino Twitter like server. While still under major development to implement some of the more important features of Twitter It is starting to come together nicely and so I wanted to show it off to the Lotus Communnity in the hopes that they will see the potential for a Twitter like system in their enterprise.
So how much will DomCastr cost when it's finished? Nothing, Nada, Free. It will be on OpenNTF for anybody to download and deploy. I won't even ask you to buy me a beer at Lotusphere ( although I won't complain if you do ).
Let me know what you think of it, if you have suggestions for enterprise features you'd like to see then post them as comments here and I'll see if they fit in with my plans for the product. if you want to lend a hand in developing the application then send me an email.
Try it out for yourself....
[http://www.domcastr.com]
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Password : demodemo