iPhone Spoils The Lotus Party
Category Administration Blackberry
So, the news is out about the iPhone 3G and its new SDK. Pretty much everyone in the consumer tech world is fawning over it--including, all the senior IT staff and executive professionals at my company. Sure, there is the cool news about cars.com running with IBM smarts. Or, what about Microsoft Sharepoint being trounced by IBM Lotus Connections ? And yet, iPhone mania continues to attract all the attention for messaging and collaboration.
Ed Brill has done a terrific job explaining the whys and why-nots for Lotus being excluded from Apple's grace.
Maybe the iNotes Ultra Lite will be a stop-gap solution until something better is in place. I haven't tested it, but I'm certainly not excited about IMAP (no wireless contact and calendar synchronization). And, maybe it's just not feasible for IBM to jump to the tempo of every new SDK and programming language. I get it. I can be staid with Blackberry, but not chic with Apple.
What I don't get, though, is what is it between IBM and Apple ? I'm missing something.
It just seems bad chemistry exists between the two. IBM's messaging platform is clearly big enough and important enough that I would consider it a no-brainer that a Microsoft competitor like Apple would include every possible messaging partner with their announcements.
So, here's my prediction. I'm guessing that we'll see Sametime connectivity on the iPhone before true Notes client support equal to the Blackberry or Windows Mobile.
Technorati Tags: iPhone, Lotus Notes
So, the news is out about the iPhone 3G and its new SDK. Pretty much everyone in the consumer tech world is fawning over it--including, all the senior IT staff and executive professionals at my company. Sure, there is the cool news about cars.com running with IBM smarts. Or, what about Microsoft Sharepoint being trounced by IBM Lotus Connections ? And yet, iPhone mania continues to attract all the attention for messaging and collaboration.
Ed Brill has done a terrific job explaining the whys and why-nots for Lotus being excluded from Apple's grace.
Maybe the iNotes Ultra Lite will be a stop-gap solution until something better is in place. I haven't tested it, but I'm certainly not excited about IMAP (no wireless contact and calendar synchronization). And, maybe it's just not feasible for IBM to jump to the tempo of every new SDK and programming language. I get it. I can be staid with Blackberry, but not chic with Apple.
What I don't get, though, is what is it between IBM and Apple ? I'm missing something.
It just seems bad chemistry exists between the two. IBM's messaging platform is clearly big enough and important enough that I would consider it a no-brainer that a Microsoft competitor like Apple would include every possible messaging partner with their announcements.
So, here's my prediction. I'm guessing that we'll see Sametime connectivity on the iPhone before true Notes client support equal to the Blackberry or Windows Mobile.
Technorati Tags: iPhone, Lotus Notes
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