The Wikis aren't working.. bring back Redbooks.

Bruce has raised a good point. Check out his blog entry and add your comment.

Defrag.NSF is now available, at a special rate of USD $149.00

It just might be the best performance boast you can buy for $149.00. This special pricing is only valid until the end of October.

Go here to find out more.

How to start Domino+Controller+Console as a Windows Service

When you install Domino as a service, by default it does not start up the controller, nor does it start the console. This tip does exactly that.

Compact +10 - it's in Defrag.NSF

When Defrag.NSF does it thing you can automatically monitor and pre-allocate contiguous free space to be added to your databases during Defrag.NSF maintenance, giving them headroom to grow without scattering data to random sectors of your disks. Check it out at Defrag.nsf.

Here, there, anywhere - busting the myth of Compact as a defrag tool!

Compact does NOT defragment a database.

Compact consolidates freespace WITHIN a database, it has nothing to do with file fragmentation. In fact using a Compact -C is likely to result in a fragmented file.

A Domino NSF is just a file on disk. As Domino grows a database it asks the operating system for space - this additional piece of the NSF file can be anywhere on the disk - anywhere!

I hate reading articles that part way through say 'continued on page X' - they are a waste of time. Well imagine reading a book that said 'continued on page X' after each paragraph. That's what it is like. It would be slow, painful and time wasting.

Defragment your databases, reduce your I/Os and improve your throughput. Spend less time looking and more time doing.

Repeat after me, COMPACT DOES NOT DEFRAGMENT A DATABASE.

How healthy are your servers ? go to Defrag.NSF and check.

Defrag.NSF - who wouldn't like a 4X performance boost

We have been extensively testing the impact of file Fragmentation on Domino, and I wanted to share with you one interesting set of results.

Yesterday we reviewed one of our customer's larger mail servers, and took aim at some of their bigger mail files.

Non-cached read performance time on one 6+ GB file average over 660 seconds, and the file had over 31K fragments.

After Defrag.nsf did its thing, the read time came down to 168 seconds. We were amazed.

How healthy are your servers?

Go over to our site, request a trial of the release candidate and check it out for yourself.

MS tax on new computers for Australian schools

As part of an Australian Government 'Education revolution' all schools in the country are about to receive a significant number of new computers. Apparently MS is charging $250 per new machine.

Hum, what about open source... Symphony - please IBM make the call. This is insane.

News story

Defrag.NSF release candidate is ready

Hi,

Defrag.NSF the World's only Domino-specific database defragmentation product is nearly ready.

We've got our first release candidate together and would love to get feedback from the Lotus community.

If you are interested please head over to our website for all the details.

Defrag.NSF at Preemptive Consulting

It’s the best version of Notes ever. But do they know?

8.02 is the best release of Notes IBM has ever put together. It is the first release of the Eclipse client with performance. It’s a pleasure to use and has features to burn. 8.5 is going to amp this up even further.

I’d like to see IBM place Notes 8 posters in every major airport in the World. Take a leaf out of Apple’s play book, talk about the lack of viruses, better ROI, how cool it is and how much it can save them. The new Symphony editors are so easy to use.

IBM’s got a fantastic product, it's time to tell the business communities.

Please no more stealth marketing, or silly ads with people wearing glasses from the 60's.