The public musings of a collaboration lifeguard
Archive for February, 2007
Flights booked for ilug2007
Feb 22nd
So my flights are booked, now just looking for accommodation. So anyone with any recommendations for an hotel…
reasonably priced
in central Dublin
not too popular with hen / stag nights, we are talking Dublin on a bank-holiday weekend, I’ll want some sleep!!
within walking distance of the Alexander Hotel
…please add a comment or add to the ilug2007 wiki.
Some good details on Quickr and Connections positioning
Feb 15th
Stuart McIntyre has posted a good post helping those of us pondering some of the product positioning of Quickr and Connections.
I particularly like this:
When used together they provide companies with unique value to address their collaboration requirements that span from formal, role-based team workspaces to informal community-driven social networks.
Things are getting clearer!
Source: Stuart McIntyre 14/02/2007: [...]
The virtualisation battle
Feb 14th
Why can’t you run Mac OS on a Windows PC from within a VMware or Parallels virtual PC? Why does the Windows Vista EULA only allow the virtualization of Vista Ultimate and Business? It’s all to do with both companies wanting to control virtualization in order to protect profits.
Source: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, zdnet (thanks [...]
More on Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr
Feb 13th
Since I wrote my first post on these products, there have been a few more good ones appearing on blogs.
Rob Novak has a good article on Quickr answering some of the key questions relating to it replacing Quickplace, the choices on the backend and more.
Connections is being covered by Roberto Boccadoro with his detailed [...]
My first ubuntu bug report
Feb 13th
I have had a problem for a while with the update-manager.
I finally got round to entering my bug report, so I am now the proud owner of an ubuntu bug!
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84961
Just have to wait and see whether its me that has broken something or an actual bug.
Lotus Quickr and Connections
Feb 11th
I, like a lot of people, am following the information coming out of IBM Lotus regarding their recently announced products Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections.
This week I had an interesting conversation with colleagues on our understanding of the products at this early stage. One point that came out was an apparent overlap, particularly on the [...]
