Ya know, you can’t make this stuff up.
As regular readers know, the SUNY Learning Network is currently on a home-grown LMS built on top of Lotus Notes/Domino. About eight months back, we proposed [PDF] the notion of migrating to a standards-based Java portal backed by a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Well, this week, IBM announced details of Domino Next, the successor platform to Lotus Domino. And what is that architecture? A standards-based Java portal. Basically, their strategy for migrating their customers to a successor technology is the same one that we came up with. And they’re doing it in a semi-versionless way. Meanwhile, the same day, another article comes out saying that IBM completed 1800 SOA projects for a thousand customers last year—double of what it had been the previous year.
I’m glad to see that IBM is following our example.
Michael Feldstein is the founder of e-Literate who currently works as the Senior Program Manager for MindTap at Cengage Learning. For more information, see his profile page.
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