I'm actually surprised by your comments here Jake...
The pure power of the environment lends itself very easily to robust web applications. It's up to the developer/designer to come up with an application that not only works as well as a fat-client, but that can also out-perform what's out there today.
Now I'm not one that is married to Domino for any solution, but I *do* see where this product could lead the pack in web-based applications. The framework of the product lends itself to blogging and other web-based solutions too well.
One product I'm working on is not geared towards the Notes users, but rather the exact opposite. I don't want to get into it here, as this is not the place and I don't want to 'blog-jack ya, but when you give a typical end-user the ability to design content-rich and fully customizable (not to mention fast) web-applications with a "click-click-boom!" approach, you're truly showing the power of Domino.
See, I feel that the Dominoids picking of the reins and blogging is only the tip of the iceburg here - we haven't seen the true potential of this product... yet!
Take a look at applications written 2-3 years ago in Domino. Look at them today. Now imagine what they *could* be 1-3 years from now.
As for the cost, Domino web-hosting is still a new frontier and certainly not geared towards the normal consumer. I'd say in the next several months you're going to see a huge change in that. I know that my company (and I'm not the only one) is now offering a cheap Domino 'blogging solution for the end-user community - this isn't a sales pitch, but rather showing that there are changes coming.
Lastly, Jake, can you please resize this comments window? I'm practically squinting :-D
I'm actually surprised by your comments here Jake...
The pure power of the environment lends itself very easily to robust web applications. It's up to the developer/designer to come up with an application that not only works as well as a fat-client, but that can also out-perform what's out there today.
Now I'm not one that is married to Domino for any solution, but I *do* see where this product could lead the pack in web-based applications. The framework of the product lends itself to blogging and other web-based solutions too well.
One product I'm working on is not geared towards the Notes users, but rather the exact opposite. I don't want to get into it here, as this is not the place and I don't want to 'blog-jack ya, but when you give a typical end-user the ability to design content-rich and fully customizable (not to mention fast) web-applications with a "click-click-boom!" approach, you're truly showing the power of Domino.
See, I feel that the Dominoids picking of the reins and blogging is only the tip of the iceburg here - we haven't seen the true potential of this product... yet!
Take a look at applications written 2-3 years ago in Domino. Look at them today. Now imagine what they *could* be 1-3 years from now.
As for the cost, Domino web-hosting is still a new frontier and certainly not geared towards the normal consumer. I'd say in the next several months you're going to see a huge change in that. I know that my company (and I'm not the only one) is now offering a cheap Domino 'blogging solution for the end-user community - this isn't a sales pitch, but rather showing that there are changes coming.
Lastly, Jake, can you please resize this comments window? I'm practically squinting :-D
-Chris