Obligatory XI 3.0 Post

I attended the Business Objects User Group for Perth yesterday, and was privileged (albeit a touch nervous) to run a session on Polestar. It went pretty good I think.

One of the BO reps also presented a session on BO XI 3.0, most of which I was aware of, but still interesting.

I’ve been working with the online training materials to prepare partners for the release of XI 3.0 and what I’ve seen so far has been pretty exciting. Word is the Java version of XI 3.0 will be made available by April or so, but the .NET version won’t be available until Q3.

To me this seems a pretty big drawback. Quite a few clients that I work with are Microsoft shops solely, and Tomcat isn’t even allowed as part of their environments. I’ve got my fingers crossed that this is because they are trying to replicate all the functionality that BO has in Java within .NET, and this is what will take a while. If this is the case, then I don’t mind the wait.

Having equal functionality between both platforms has been lacking in XI R1 and R2, and it’s disappointing to have to tell clients they can’t have Performance Manager or Voyager or other tools because they only use IIS.

So if BO’s plan is to take the time now to match the functionality on both platforms, then it’s a really good move.

I’m also hanging out for the XI 3.0 software to hit the Business Objects ESD so I can get a image up and running.

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2 Responses to “Obligatory XI 3.0 Post”

  • Josh Fletcher Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 5:21 AM

    Hi Andreas,

    If Business Objects were to do that, and only support Java application servers, I think there would be a big uproar in the user community.

    Unfortunately, as soon as BO drop .NET, I would anticipate a LOT of organisations moving to SSRS or Performance Point, primarily because they are Microsoft-only shops.

    Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your view), I think we are stuck with both .NET and Java for quite a while.

    Thanks for your comment :)

    - Josh

  • Anonymous Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 2:52 PM

    I would prefer only .JSP, dropping the .NET version completely from the product line, if and only if BusinessObjects would pour the freed up resources into better quality of the product.

    Andreas (from BOB)

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