Lotus Notes Domino 8: Upgraders Guide by Tim Speed, Bennie Gibson, Joseph Anderson, Dick McCarrick, Brad Schauf, Barry Rosen, David Byrd02/24/2008 09:50:26 PM
Location : Cleveland, OH
I was given a reviewers copy of this book.
With the availability of Lotus Notes and Domino Release 8, comes a host of new features for the software. I am sure that if you are working with that software, you are aware of most of them. However, this book does a great job of examining all of the new features and functions, and more.
Contents:
Forward
Preface
Chapter 1: A Short History of Notes and Domino
Chapter 2: Overview of New Lotus Notes 8 Client Features
Chapter 3: Lotus Notes 8 and SOA
Chapter 4: Productivity Tools
Chapter 5: Lotus Domino 8 Server Features
Chapter 6: Deployment Enhancements in Notes/Domino 8
Chapter 7: Upgrading to Notes/Domino 8
Chapter 8: Coexistence between Notes/Domino Releases
Chapter 9: What's New in Notes/Domino 8 Development
Chapter 10: Integration with Other IBM/Lotus Products
Appendix: Third-Party Tools
Index
If you are working toward upgrading your Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure, or deciding if Lotus Notes/Domino is for you, Lotus Notes Domino 8: Upgraders Guide, by Tim Speed, Bennie Gibson, Joseph Anderson, Dick McCarrick, Brad Schauf, Barry Rosen, and David Byrd, will give you quite a lot of information in a slim (253 pages) book. From a history of Notes and Domino to what to expect with Notes/Domino 8, this book covers a lot of ground.
If you are expecting a book to help you upgrade your environment, Chapter 7 will help you with the planning. The other chapters will show you what to expect. The final chapter will give you an excellent overview on integrating your Notes/Domino environment with Quickr, Sametime, and Connections. A lot of information in a small book. But if you are simply looking to upgrade your environment, the authors put quite a bit in about 17 pages (Chapter 7). After following their upgrade plan, you should be very confident of taking on the task of moving your environment to Release 8. I am well aware of the new features, but I did pick up quite a few new ones by reading this book. They give the important new server features a lot of consideration as well as why the Eclipse platform is so important. Further, I was surprised that this book included a chapter on the new development features and explanations of leveraging Web 2.0 (like RSS) in your applications.
As weird as it sounds, I did get a laugh from the book due to a typographical error. In Chapter 1, they told about a new Release 7 feature, "Frivolity Autonomic Monitoring Engine (TAME). I think the word should have been "Tivoli." My only other gripe with this book is that the Index needed to be better. It seemed that they spent a lot of space on the third-party tools at the expense of LDAP, DirLint, and others. Other than those issues, the authors did an exceptional job with this book, especially since there are a lot of new features in this release in the Client, Server, and Designer areas.
This book is worth your time if you are upgrading your environment or looking at Notes and Domino 8.
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Comment posted by Jason02/25/2008 07:34:18 AM
Hi Gregg, On the basis of your recommendation and Amazons Money back guarantee I've ordered a copy . According to Amazon UK they only have 3 in stock as of right now...
Jason
Comment posted by Chris Whisonant02/25/2008 11:20:17 AM
Homepage: http://bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut
@Jason - it's a good book. I have also reviewed it.
@Gregg - I noticed the "Frivolity" thing. Probably an auto-correct issue. But funny nonetheless...
Comment posted by Lars Olufsen02/28/2008 06:37:46 AM
Homepage: http://www.olufsphere.com
It's on my nightstand as well ... a great read!
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