Here! Here! Jake. I'm completely with you on this one. Domino 7 is utterly disappointing for the Designer. There was so much opportunity for IBM to improve Designer and ... nothing.
I mean really, can anyone say: 'DOCTYPE.' Folks who design Notes apps for the web have been complaining about the inability to specify a DOCTYPE for at least the last 3 years (well, I've been complaining about it for at least that long). How hard would that have been to have addressed in this release?
There is virtually nothing in 7.0 that will really improve how I work, or for that matter, improve things for my clients. As for the DB2 integration, pantheon of IBMers couldn't convince me that this will add value for the masses. Let's face it, DB2 costs a small fortune -- software-, hardware- and talent-wise. I'd be hard-pressed to make a business case for a client to make an investment in DB2 merely as an alternate datastore for some Domino database. More importantly, if your readership had been following the IBM line on this release as closely as they claim to have, they would have no doubt noticed that 'technically' DB2 integration isn't even in 7:
[excerpted from the IBM website] "In the first release of Domino 7.0, DB2 integration features are for test and evaluation purposes only, not for production or development work. Full support for DB2 integration features will be included in an upcoming release of Domino 7."
I suppose, Jake, its not all bad. In the end, we did get shared columns. Look at it this way, if there is some modicum of time-saving in that, we'll have a bit more time to invest in all of the hacks needed to get our apps to look reasonably decent on the web...
Here! Here! Jake. I'm completely with you on this one. Domino 7 is utterly disappointing for the Designer. There was so much opportunity for IBM to improve Designer and ... nothing.
I mean really, can anyone say: 'DOCTYPE.' Folks who design Notes apps for the web have been complaining about the inability to specify a DOCTYPE for at least the last 3 years (well, I've been complaining about it for at least that long). How hard would that have been to have addressed in this release?
There is virtually nothing in 7.0 that will really improve how I work, or for that matter, improve things for my clients. As for the DB2 integration, pantheon of IBMers couldn't convince me that this will add value for the masses. Let's face it, DB2 costs a small fortune -- software-, hardware- and talent-wise. I'd be hard-pressed to make a business case for a client to make an investment in DB2 merely as an alternate datastore for some Domino database. More importantly, if your readership had been following the IBM line on this release as closely as they claim to have, they would have no doubt noticed that 'technically' DB2 integration isn't even in 7:
[excerpted from the IBM website] "In the first release of Domino 7.0, DB2 integration features are for test and evaluation purposes only, not for production or development work. Full support for DB2 integration features will be included in an upcoming release of Domino 7."
I suppose, Jake, its not all bad. In the end, we did get shared columns. Look at it this way, if there is some modicum of time-saving in that, we'll have a bit more time to invest in all of the hacks needed to get our apps to look reasonably decent on the web...