At Lotusphere It's Back to the Future
Category Lotusphere2009
Like jeweled Faberge Eggs, each Lotusphere is unique, with a surprise within. There is enough activity spread out over the week, that I'm not sure that I'll be able to have a complete appreciation for it, until after its over and I've had a few days. There isn't any such anomaly as "instant analysis" but I can try and ferret out some first impressions.
Let me start with what's different. I'm sitting in the lobby of the Dolphin, under it's casbah fabric ceiling and next to the fountain. In my seating den, everyone has out their laptops and are working on-line. One has a MacBook Air, another is running MS Windows on a huge H-P, and I have Ubuntu. Two people just set down with Asus Netbooks. What's different, is we all have full functioning Notes clients for our native OS. The Netbook owners are running Windows XP and they find their Notes 8.5 client very snappy. That's cool. It's also interesting that several people are using voice and video to catch up with someone far enough away from Florida that I'm not sure I understand the language. Ok, now I can hear it -- it's Italian.
If I scan over the schedule of talks, I find that, of course, Workplace is long gone and in it's place is core Domino burnished with DAOS, the ID Vault, XPages and Dojo Javascript. Notes/Domino 8.5 was released a little more than a week ago, and I'm writing this entry using Notes 8.5.
Sametime and Quickr have new releases based on the 8.5 update, and I'm looking forward to more information.
Lotus Foundations is out and being presented as a very muscular SMB server. It's autonomic capabilities are extraordinary, so it'll be really interesting to talk to some Business Partners whether or not they think it can gain some traction in the market.
Lotus Symphony has an API exposed, so it is now it's own development platform.
Web services, SAAS, and Cloud Computing have replaced SOA as "the" terms to use.
I went to an XPages session to see someone run it through the paces. Yes, it's very comprehensive and has been needed for a long time. I couldn't help but think, "what would a .NET developer think ? Or, an enterprise Eclipse developer ? Or, even a scripting guru ?" I'm wondering when Domino will become recognized as a RAD web platform, and what it would take for a professional web developer to gauge using Domino instead of another choice.
What's the same? Well, it still has buzz, and heads are starting to nod about the new capabilities. It's only Sunday, people are still arriving, so tomorrow will be the big drama.
Like jeweled Faberge Eggs, each Lotusphere is unique, with a surprise within. There is enough activity spread out over the week, that I'm not sure that I'll be able to have a complete appreciation for it, until after its over and I've had a few days. There isn't any such anomaly as "instant analysis" but I can try and ferret out some first impressions.
Let me start with what's different. I'm sitting in the lobby of the Dolphin, under it's casbah fabric ceiling and next to the fountain. In my seating den, everyone has out their laptops and are working on-line. One has a MacBook Air, another is running MS Windows on a huge H-P, and I have Ubuntu. Two people just set down with Asus Netbooks. What's different, is we all have full functioning Notes clients for our native OS. The Netbook owners are running Windows XP and they find their Notes 8.5 client very snappy. That's cool. It's also interesting that several people are using voice and video to catch up with someone far enough away from Florida that I'm not sure I understand the language. Ok, now I can hear it -- it's Italian.
If I scan over the schedule of talks, I find that, of course, Workplace is long gone and in it's place is core Domino burnished with DAOS, the ID Vault, XPages and Dojo Javascript. Notes/Domino 8.5 was released a little more than a week ago, and I'm writing this entry using Notes 8.5.
Sametime and Quickr have new releases based on the 8.5 update, and I'm looking forward to more information.
Lotus Foundations is out and being presented as a very muscular SMB server. It's autonomic capabilities are extraordinary, so it'll be really interesting to talk to some Business Partners whether or not they think it can gain some traction in the market.
Lotus Symphony has an API exposed, so it is now it's own development platform.
Web services, SAAS, and Cloud Computing have replaced SOA as "the" terms to use.
I went to an XPages session to see someone run it through the paces. Yes, it's very comprehensive and has been needed for a long time. I couldn't help but think, "what would a .NET developer think ? Or, an enterprise Eclipse developer ? Or, even a scripting guru ?" I'm wondering when Domino will become recognized as a RAD web platform, and what it would take for a professional web developer to gauge using Domino instead of another choice.
What's the same? Well, it still has buzz, and heads are starting to nod about the new capabilities. It's only Sunday, people are still arriving, so tomorrow will be the big drama.
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