Jeff Eisen

Yesterday, I was putting together some demos for my talk at the Advisor Conference in Phoenix next week.

One of the demos is really simple stuff -- no "coding" required.  It is just changing one of the colors in the UI.  

So, what's the big deal you say.  I agree, it's not that big of a deal just changing a color, but three things struck me while doing it that are somewhat of a big deal.

First, customers and ISVs and such could never do this before.   The degree to which the overall UI in Notes was configurable was admittedly minimal.

Second, it's not some ad hoc proprietary mechanism for doing the customization.  I simply modified a color in a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) property and took it from there.

Finally, it's really easy to deploy to your organization.   Anything related to Notes that is not part of a NSF/NTF has always been a challenge to actually get to the desktops.  This is getting pretty easy.  While I expect the functionality around "server managed desktop" as well as everything else to get better and better over time, it impressed me how even out of the gate in the Hannover release, the capabilities around deploying technology are leaps and bounds above where we are today in Notes 7.