Notes Domino 7.0, expected late in the third quarter of 2004, will deliver DB2 support as a native data store, enhanced portlets, and expanded application support.
Although IBM is clear in its message that the traditional Notes client is not going away any time soon, the company confirmed that the path for convergence between the Workplace J2EE-based platform environment and the traditional collaboration products is within sight. By the first half of 2005 the two development efforts will be down to a single code drop and a common portlet-based UI, according to Bisconti.
"We won't have two lanes forever [going] in different directions," Bisconti said. "Customers don’t have to do some big migration attempt; there will be no massive jump to J2EE."
Similar to IBM, Microsoft is developing a single data store for the next version of its messaging platform, code-named Kodiak. The release, expected by 2006, will bring a database foundation based on the forthcoming Yukon data-storage architecture. Kodiak also will delve deeper into Web services.
Oracle, for its part, is gaining traction with its Collaboration Suite, which touts a single data store architecture based on its database and application server. Release 3 of Collaboration Suite, due by the end of 2004, will leverage Oracle's 10g app server, add Web services interfaces to all collaboration components, and introduce a standards-based instant messaging server. The release will feature closer integration with ERP apps, said Sunir Kapoor, vice president of Oracle collaboration.
According to Ferris, aligning with a database can lower the total cost of ownership and improve data integration.
"If the messaging store can be put on a relational database, you can use all sorts of widely available tools, which will be better for the product and for users and administrators," Ferris said.
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