IBM Lotus Quickr services architectures

The Lotus Quickr product itself is a common set of services that are built on top of two very different product architectures. When you buy Lotus Quickr you get both. These foundation level deployment architectures are Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal. There are a host of reasons for this type of product design, but the key is that customers have different requirements and it is not practical to build a "one size fits all" solution. Each of the deployment platforms provide capabilities that can be leveraged to build enterprise class collaboration solutions.

The next sections will dive deeper into each of the deployment architectures. While the WebSphere Portal platform is discussed at some level, the focus of this book is on the Lotus Domino product. It was not practical to cover both platforms in adequate detail in the scope of this book, given the significant backend differences between the deployment platforms. Lotus Quickr for Domino represents...