Lotusphere Comes To You in Washington, DC
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Yesterdays one-day Lotusphere event had 298 registrations, where the attending crowd was close to that total. The highlights were (1) having an open lab for ND8, Quickr, Connections from 10 AM until close; (2) some strong presentations; (3) all the presentations and demo material were delivered on a 1 G USB memory stick, (4) really good lunch; (5) Ubuntu and Linux were mentioned throughout the day; and the (6) cocktail hour.
John Dunderdale (VP, Sales) gave the opening session with a mix of industry statistics and IBM/Lotus accomplishments.
The presentation of the day went to Howard Newton, who covered Quickr. I appreciated his intermixing of the technical demonstrations with explanations of the features' utility. He explained the purpose of the different connectors (Outlook, Notes, Sametime, IE, File Explorer, Symphony, and MS Office) as a way to break the "silo mentality."
Howard explained the distinction between the Team Site and the Individual Content Library (visible to others, but not editable). And, we heard about the Personal Quickr Entry (free to all Notes users).
He then bravely presented a pre-beta demo of the next (post 8.1) release. This upcoming release looked a bit more like Lotus Connections "lite" and it includes a tag cloud.
A Lotus Roadmap presentation was given that included some good info, but went on a bit over a possible case-study use of Sametime Unyte. I did hear that a limited release of Ubuntu on 8.1 is out (and available through your sales rep).
Good stuff.
Yesterdays one-day Lotusphere event had 298 registrations, where the attending crowd was close to that total. The highlights were (1) having an open lab for ND8, Quickr, Connections from 10 AM until close; (2) some strong presentations; (3) all the presentations and demo material were delivered on a 1 G USB memory stick, (4) really good lunch; (5) Ubuntu and Linux were mentioned throughout the day; and the (6) cocktail hour.
John Dunderdale (VP, Sales) gave the opening session with a mix of industry statistics and IBM/Lotus accomplishments.
- 35% of all Sametime implementations are for clients w/o Domino.
- Lotus Symphony is 60 days from its final release.
- IBM is committed to placing 300k ND8 clients on IBM desktops.
- Expects to see products like Sametime Unyte replacing the corporate telephone.
- Lotus Connections had the most successful sales of any new product in Lotus history.
- Mashups will ship in 2nd Qtr.
The presentation of the day went to Howard Newton, who covered Quickr. I appreciated his intermixing of the technical demonstrations with explanations of the features' utility. He explained the purpose of the different connectors (Outlook, Notes, Sametime, IE, File Explorer, Symphony, and MS Office) as a way to break the "silo mentality."
Howard explained the distinction between the Team Site and the Individual Content Library (visible to others, but not editable). And, we heard about the Personal Quickr Entry (free to all Notes users).
He then bravely presented a pre-beta demo of the next (post 8.1) release. This upcoming release looked a bit more like Lotus Connections "lite" and it includes a tag cloud.
A Lotus Roadmap presentation was given that included some good info, but went on a bit over a possible case-study use of Sametime Unyte. I did hear that a limited release of Ubuntu on 8.1 is out (and available through your sales rep).
Good stuff.
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