Domino faithful feel back in the fold

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Lotus Domino is experiencing a revival within IBM, according to end users who say they couldn't be happier about the development as the annual Lotusphere conference approaches later this month in Orlando. The Lotus faithful say IBM finally has realized over the past months the importance of Domino in its wide-ranging portal and On-Demand strategy The company is now clearly incorporating the collaboration software into long-term plans that include IBM's Workplace collaboration component architecture, the DB2 database and WebSphere. "I met with a DB2 official recently and he could talk intelligently about Domino and he wasn't an ex-Lotus guy I said 'wow?" says Jim Cimino, president of Brightideas Software, a Lotus business partner. But Cimino is cau- tiously optimistic. "I'm hearing a lot and I'm hoping it's genuine. I'm excited to get to Lotusphere." IBM officials say they always intended to keep Domino in the fold even after announcing in October that they would merge the parallel development tracks of Domino and the new Lotus Workplace strategy in 2005. Lotus Workplace is a platform for collaboration services built on Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and the DB2 relational database.