Write it on a Rock

I ran the DAOS Estimator Tool back in late January and loved the estimated savings it showed: 85.4 GB.

I held off on using it at first to see what issues others might have encountered with it and eventually began enabling a few mail databases a day over the last month or so and I've finally finished with all the mail databases.

Actual savings so far: 89.047 GB

I set DAOS up to only look at attachments over 128KB. I might cut that in half just to see how much more that would save me. I'll be sure to update when I have all the applications DAOS enabled and also if I do drop the attachment file size down.

I'm obviously excited the most about 8.5.1. Some of you might have read the post from last week about leaving 8.5 because of the way the Designer client "works" and I'm dying to try 8.5.1 to see if those issues have been fixed. I saw some of the 8.5.1 Designer demo'd at Lotusphere and I loved the way the code commenting worked and all the awesome new things they had in the LS editor. Hopefully when the beta opens up to more people I'll be lucky enough to be able to try it. Oh, and the client will have XPage support. Can't wait.

Along with that announcement, Ed has one regarding OpenNTF and another about the promotional discounts on new Notes/iNotes licenses.

I've been using it since the week it was released but I can't handle 8.5 DDE anymore.

I'm tired of the focus getting stolen.

I'm tired of selecting some piece of code, like a variable name, and hitting ctrl+c to copy it and ctrl+v to paste it later in the code to find out I just copied and pasted an email.

I'm tired of clearly being in a design element, such as a script library, writing something and pressing ctrl+s to save and DDE doesn't save it. I go click the save icon in the toolbar hoping for it to actually do what it's supposed to but do get the same result, nothing.

I'm tired of seeing "You cannot add a directory to your workspace" when clicking a link in the Designer Help NSF (yes, not a DDE issue but instead a 8.5 Client issue).

While I will miss the Application View and the Perspectives, it's not worth it for me. Hopefully 8.5.1 will be a quality release that doesn't hinder me trying to work.