Saturday, February 21, 2009

IBM gets the message?(sic)

So IBM is finally bringing out its DAOS tool for Domino servers, giving customers the option to use a Single Copy Object Store for their attachment storage. All this will do it help exacerbate the problem with inefficient use of email for document storage!
As with many other vendors, IBM/Lotus has a wide array of solutions for messaging and collaboration, but incorporating this option into the messaging toolset in Domino will in my mind reduce the potential for their Quickr product which, amongst other things, asks users if they really want to send attachments and gives them the option to use Quickr to store the attachment(s) and send links to the recipients instead. Quickr gives options to manage files in a collaborative fashion that is far more efficient than using email, but DAOS encourages users to store (and share) more data via email than before. And email will be the only way to get to the data (which means people will save copies in their local/network file systems ending up with duplicates in the environment anyway!). Quickr gives many more options (File Explorer access, Quickr space access via browser etc) and allows options for check-in & check-out and versioning. DAOS doesn't.
I'm sure someone will read this and disagree, but I'm not convinced that DAOS is all that great a solution for Domino Admins out there. It's not even moving goalposts - it creates another set on an ever expanding playing field that is constantly morphing out of control . . . . .

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