Real World Computing

Update: Thanks to everyone who commented to point out that this was fixed.  We were all so focussed on Poodle that we only applied the fixes to the servers that serve HTML.  Turns out that IBM Domino 9.0.1 FIX PACK 3 is a good fix to have on all of your servers.  KILLER AGENTS !  Just a fun tidbit we discovered today (fortunately on the test, rather than the production server). It seems that bug has been introduced in from Domino 9.0.1 which doesn't like having the agent manager restarted.  Specifically, via the commands; TELL AMGR QUIT and LOAD AMGR Under normal use, you'd probably have no reason to issue those commands on your server console but if you had a runaway agent or if you were testing/debugging, you might. Shortly after agent manager loads (in our case, in under 10 seconds), the server will start to report things like; AMgr: Console command 'LOG.NSF' is unknown AMgr: Console command 'admin4.NSF' is unknown The actua...

I had a very interesting conversation with IBM last week (more on that in later posts) and at one point we discussed the current status and the future of IBM Notes and Domino.  It's a discussion which seems to be largely ignored at the IBM events these days but it's certainly a question that IBM's customers want answered.  The answer from IBM was quite interesting. First of all, we were assured that IBM Domino was not dead - far from it. It was alive, kicking and thriving. It's no longer being considered "sexy" or "new" but is seen as a mature product which does exactly what it needs to do.  IBM made it clear that they didn't intend to over-engineer notes by adding functionality simply so that they could bring a new version to the market. IBM weren't subtle about it either, pointing the finger at Microsoft Word and asking "how many more features do you need in a word processor"?  It was a good point, well made. After all, ho...