Lotusphere 2010: LotusLive Notes

January 18 2010

Today at Lotusphere, we discussed plans and designs for updating LotusLive Notes in 2010.  LotusLive Notes is the IBM-hosted Domino SaaS/cloud offering, which has been available in various forms for a few years.  A major work-effort on my team and in our labs right now is to build an updated back-end for this service, which we will put into beta in the first half of 2010.

The new version of the service will run in the LotusLive data centers atop a multi-tenant Domino environment.  We will expand the customer size range, down to a minimum of 50 users (vs. 1000 today).  The prices will be part of the published Passport Advantage price list for customers, with the standard discount curve in place.  It will offer 5 GB of mail per user, with a 99.9% target service level.  Both Notes client and browser-based Domino mail users are supported.  Optional features will include mobile device support, archiving, and data conversion/migration services.  And one major advantage of the LotusLive Notes offering -- it is designed specifically with hybrid (on-premises + cloud) environments in mind.

Later today, we'll go into more details about LotusLive Notes in 2010, and there are two breakout sessions on the topic scheduled for Wednesday.

Ed Brill | | Lotusphere 2010 | Lake Buena Vista, FL USA Category:  Lotus  LotusLive  IBM Lotus  Add/View Comments [9]

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  1. 1  Stuart McIntyre http://blog.collaborationmatters.com | 1/18/2010 8:48:39 AM

    Wow, 50 users! That is massive for making Notes a real option for SMBs and startups.

  1. 2  Brian O’Donovan http://brianodonovan.ie | 1/18/2010 9:02:26 AM

    Yes, 50 is much more like what I think of as a SMB than 1,000. I know a company of 1,000 employees is small to IBM, but most people would not count a 1,000 person company as small.

    Personally I think that the minimum should be reduced even further to say 5 or 10. A company of 15 people would need some form of collaboration solution, but they would baulk at paying for a 50 license option when 35 of these would be wasted.

  1. 3  Torben  | 1/18/2010 3:58:56 PM

    I totally agree with Brain. 5 to 10 is the perfect size as an alternative to MS SBS. Especially for companys without own IT-deparmtent or mail-infrastructure.

    But I think they are on the right way.

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/18/2010 9:36:15 PM

    @3 I really see Lotus Foundations as the optimal alternative to SBS, do you?

  1. 5  Stijn Soens http://www.gfi.be | 4/14/2010 8:06:49 AM

    Will LotusLive Notes eventually offer a hybdrid offering where lightweight users can work in the cloud and power users can work on the on-premise Domino environment? There are always limitations when working in the cloud and the mix is pretty interesting due to cost reductions for lightweight users while you still have the flexibility to integrate and extend your local Domino environment.

  1. 6  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 4/14/2010 3:15:18 PM

    Stijn: Yes.

  1. 7  Marky Goldstein http://www.rosa.com | 6/11/2010 10:07:31 AM

    I guess we might migrate from Domino to Lotus Live next generation.

  1. 8  Marky Goldstein http://www.rosa.com | 6/29/2010 3:02:59 PM

    We (everybody) need(s) further information on how to migrate from Domino 8.5 to Lotus Live...

  1. 9  Claire  | 8/4/2011 6:22:24 AM

    Is there any info on how to migrate from Domino 8.5 to Lotus Live please?