I enjoyed reading your "confession".LOL. Xpages is interesting, but it hasn't "floated my boat" either. I think that although the Domino IDE has finally moved into this millenium with XPages, it's still waaaay behind development technologies like Flex and more recently (dare I say it) Visual Studio 2008, (I think it can outgun Notes for web dev when compared with ASP.Net because it has more elegant separation of logic vs presentation).
Notes 8 and 7 together, don't really play nice together on a PC/Laptop. Like Declan, I run them on VMWare and have had no problems at all on Windows Vista as the host operating system. I run them on a 4gb laptop load up Windows XP as the VM operating system with 512MB ram, and i can comfortably run upto 3 sessions concurrently. Running 8.5/7 and 6.5. (You just need a "legal" XP install to run up the environments).
More recently an open source VM technology has been released ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) which I have been told is worth a go to.
Jake,
I enjoyed reading your "confession".LOL. Xpages is interesting, but it hasn't "floated my boat" either. I think that although the Domino IDE has finally moved into this millenium with XPages, it's still waaaay behind development technologies like Flex and more recently (dare I say it) Visual Studio 2008, (I think it can outgun Notes for web dev when compared with ASP.Net because it has more elegant separation of logic vs presentation).
Notes 8 and 7 together, don't really play nice together on a PC/Laptop. Like Declan, I run them on VMWare and have had no problems at all on Windows Vista as the host operating system. I run them on a 4gb laptop load up Windows XP as the VM operating system with 512MB ram, and i can comfortably run upto 3 sessions concurrently. Running 8.5/7 and 6.5. (You just need a "legal" XP install to run up the environments).
More recently an open source VM technology has been released ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) which I have been told is worth a go to.