Ed Brill

First of what is likely to be several pre-Lotusphere press articles...

Though Workplace Designer was mentioned at the Rational Software Development User Conference last summer, this introduction would be the Eclipse-based toolset's coming-out party. The software promises to enable traditional Domino developers to continue working with their existing skills without retraining, IBM sources said.

Due out later this year, Workplace Designer builds on the open-source Eclipse framework and stands to give programmers and developers a full-fledged arsenal. It would be positioned vis-a-vis the currently shipping Workplace Builder targeting nonprogrammers.

On Friday, Ken Bisconti, vice president of workplace, portals and collaboration at IBM Software, confirmed that Workplace Designer will be a big part of the Lotusphere festivities. But he added that the company also will highlight the next release of Domino Designer with better support of popular Web services.

Link: CRN: On Tap At Lotusphere: New Workplace Designer, Updated Domino Designer >
(PS: I know I owe some responses to comments on previous threads...call it a Vegas hangover...I'll get there)