Notes 9 Social Edition.. is a continuation
of Notes being both a PIM tool(Mail, Calendar, Contacts) and a Platform.
Notes 9 improves the Mail/PIM experience
with things like improved QuickFind, and platform features like Widgets
and LiveText, which is now on by default, and available in iNotes.
So giving you a full feature list of
Notes 9 Social Edition is beyong the scope of my response here....
What does adding in the "OpenSocial" component
"give"/allow you to do?
Deploying the OpenSocial Component-
Extends the Widgets and LiveText framework to support OpenSocial Gadgets
- largely a platform function. It enables Embedded Experiences inside
your mail file and OpenSocial Gadgets in the sidebar, tabs, etc.
Do you need to also deploy Lotus Connections as well?
Connections 4.0, is currently the first
IBM Product to leverage these OpenSocial capabilities to provide you all
the Social features: Embedded Experiences and Updates Tab Gadgets. In the
near future you will see IBM products such as IBM Forms enabling workflow
processes via Embedded Experiences, and then other portions of the
So really, if you deploy Domino 9, are you getting nothing
really new with this "social" edition?
You are correct that deploying the OpenSocial
Component, without any gadgets to use the new capabilities, is a NO-op.
It'a all bout the applications(and now Gadgets) that extend Notes
to make it more powerful. Keep in mind that Notes/Domino customers
now have an entitlement for a portion of Connections 4 functionality.
--Andrew Davis
Architect, Notes Social Edition.