Thursday, March 02, 2006

Ed Brill Word of the day: Orthogonal

Ed Brill: Word of the day: Orthogonal : "I used the word 'orthogonal' today to describe the 'innovation pack' planned for Lotus Notes and Domino in mid-2006. This is the set of capabilites including a blog template, RSS feeds, and Notes on a USB key that were announced at Lotusphere. They're 'orthogonal' because they are not a 7.1 or 7.5 release...in fact, no core code is disturbed at all. This is critical to those organizations who have testing requirements in order to deploy a 'new' piece of software. The 'innovation pack' is separate from the core Notes/Domino codestream. Apparently, the 'orthogonal' nature of this deliverable taught several people in the room a new SAT word."

Wise of IBM to not wait for Hannover to release blog and RSS templates, especially since Microsoft will deliver XML syndication and wiki support with Office 2007.

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