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 meant to post this back in late January when they fixed the estimator tool for iSeries but never remembered to do so. Anyway, this is the estimated savings from a production Mail/Application server running 8.5 on a i5 520 that's on V6R1.

Total Size of NSF's Examined: 216.3 GB
Total Disk Savings: 85.4 GB

Almost 40% savings (39.48% to be exact). That alone is reason enough to move to Domino 8.5 but combine that with the 28.3% we saw going from 7.x to 8.0.1 and that's a VERY compelling reason to upgrade from pre-8.0 releases to 8.5.

For the most part, I love the new Designer client in 8.5. I absolutely love the way they changed the Design elements area where you can expand the entire list of forms/views/etc and scroll through them instead of just showing a few and having to scroll through each section individually. I like how you can drag-and-drop the "Eclipse Views" around to change where your information is and especially being able to tab them onto a different area. I love the Perspectives you can customize and the new Working Sets for your applications.

There are a few annoyances I've encountered, one of which I think is due to new mail notification in the status bar, but this is probably the one that bugs me the most.


I'm already missing the font dropdown selection from previous versions. Is there a preference out there that I can set so that it will show 10-15 different choices instead of just five? Yes, I'm aware I can click into the dropdown and press "V" to take me to the Vs or "C" to go to the Cs but I'd still like to see more then five fonts when hitting the dropdown.