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IBM's Lotusphere Showcases Mega Server: Page 2 of 2

"The idea is to have the majority of application logic on the server but still have a data cache locally,an open-source cache that is Eclipse-oriented,and use standard synchronization to do the back-and-forth work," said a source.

"They're putting serious money back into those [Notes and Notes Designer clients] projects," said one longtime Lotus partner. "And listen to what they don't say. They won't talk about pushing people off Notes or onto an Eclipse-based replacement. Instead, they'll talk about an alternative Eclipse-based client."

In this "browser-plus" worldview, IBM is doing a lot of what Microsoft is promising in its time frame for Longhorn and Yukon, but IBM can support a Linux client, sources said. They are trying to "get the best of the browser experience plus local processing via the Java runtime and also do data sync," one source said.