Ed Brill

If I can distract your attention from the flame wars taking place in the comments to the CNET story...

At the show, Lotus plans to detail Version 2.0 of the Workplace platform, featuring integration with Eclipse open source tools and tools tailored to nonprogrammers. Eclipse tools offer a rich client experience by streamlining the process of pulling in a traditional Notes look and feel as well as features such as drag and drop and offline capabilities. Also debuting at the show will be Workplace Builder, another feature in 2.0 that delivers tools to let nonprogrammers customize and store work as a template in Workplace. Lotusphere also will unearth more details about Version 7.0 of the Notes Domino messaging platform, due at the end of 2004 or early 2005, said Ken Bisconti, vice president of messaging at IBM.