Ran an installment of our Domino User Group in early June.   We demonstrated the Domino Attachment Object Store feature in 8.5.  Lots of interest from the group.  The consensus  with Domino 8.5 is that the server looks good, but the client is too heavy and slow for most.  Many are installing the basic version of R8 vs going with the eclipse version.

Chris Fales from Ardexus shared a performance load test they did with their Web Mode CRM product.  They used the IBM Innovation Center to test how the software behaved doing common CRM actions on both a R7 and R8.5 server on the same hardware.  The R7 server gave up at 100 concurrent users.  In most cases that is acceptable for SMB customers.  What was interesting was that the R8.5 was still giving acceptable performance at 2000 concurrent users.  IBM has done a bang up job on improving the HTTP task.  That is good news for Docova.  Nice when the manufacturer improves the base product and everyone benefits.