Warning, this is a bit of a gripe post!
Why is it that the dates for Lotus events in Spain always seem to be the last to appear!? Spain isn’t even on the list for the Lotusphere Comes to You events, which I hope that is just temporary!
It could go quite some way to explain why the Lotus community here in Spain has struggled for so long. I just hope that all the effort of late from those behind Spanish Lotus User Group - SLUG.es, are matched by IBM Lotus.
iPhone putting on a Lotus Notes suit? By Thomas Ricker
If you’re looking to gain respect for your gear as a serious business-class tool, there’s no better way than to infiltrate those Big Four accounting firms still using Lotus Notes. According to a piece carried by the Associated Press, …
Engadget Mobile - http://www.engadgetmobile.comiPhone and iPod Touch Getting Lotus Notes
According to a piece carried by the Associated Press, Lotus Notes eMail is coming to Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.
Digg / Apple / upcoming - http://digg.com/appleLotus Sametime Mobile Video By Alan Lepofsky
Philippe Poupeleer of Lotus Business Partner EASI, has posted a nice 3 minute video of using Sametime mobile.
IBM Lotus Notes Hints, Tips, and Tricks - http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/Lotus Notes Coming To Apple iPhoneBy iDunzo
Existing users of Lotus Notes Web-access system will be able to use the iPhone version for free with their current license. New users will have to pay $39 per year for the Lotus license. Not a bad deal at all. …
iDunzo.com - http://www.idunzo.comLotus Notes Coming to the iPhone?
IBM is poised to announce a version of Lotus Notes e-mail for the iPhone at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., next week. Those who already have a Lotus Web-access license will get the software for free. …
Tech-Ex - http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/ IBM to Sully iPhones and iPod Touches with Lotus Notes By Bryan Gardiner
According to the AP, the Lotus Notes e-mail package will start infecting Apple’s portable devices as soon as next week, when the company is expected to formally announce its availability at the Lotusphere conference. …
Wired: Epicenter - http://blog.wired.com/business/IBM announces plans for Lotus Notes for iPhone and iPod By Cyrus Farivar
Lotus Notes, one of the collaborative software mainstays for nearly two decades, is now going to be released for the iPhone and the iPod. While I can’t say that I’ve ever used Lotus Notes, I do know that a lot of other people do. …
MacUser - http://www.macuser.com/Apple, IBM to Bring Lotus Notes to the iPhone…and, Perhaps, Closer … By Al Sacco
Though most IT folks agree that the iPhone is not yet suited for deployment in corporate environments, Apple’s uber smartphone may soon get one step closer to becoming a viable business device. read more.
Advice and Opinion - - http://advice.cio.comIBM to Sully iPhones and iPod Touches with Lotus Notes By Bryan Gardiner
According to the AP, the Lotus Notes e-mail package will start infecting Apple’s portable devices as soon as next week, where it is expected to be formally announced at the company’s Lotusphere conference. …
Epicenter - http://blog.wired.com/business/
All this from just some google alerts!
Tags: iPhone, Lotus, Lotus+Notes
IBM, more than other enterprise software outfits, groks the new naming conventions. “syn.chron.ous” etc http://snurl.com/1vj33
now it just needs to understand the business models…
Redmonk’s James Governor, via Twitter, comenting on the debate surrounding the announcement of Atlas for Lotus Connections.
This post has been in a “draft” status for too long, I meant to get it out there ages ago!
A few of my colleagues having been commenting on some Sharepoint news thay have noticed lately, which for a number of reasons I found interesting.
Firstly, James over on his ChiefTech blog points out a CMS Watch article claiming that:
“although Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 brings improved collaboration facilities over previous editions, it comes at the cost of a dearth of enterprise management services, leading to rampant, viral proliferation and instances of uncontrolled content, as well as major compliancy risks.
Which seems to be bourne out if we are to believe the numbers Steve uncovered via networkworld.com (but presumeably quoting the same CMS Watch article):
CMS Watch says its clients include a North American bank that found “more than 5,000 uncontrolled and unaudited instances of SharePoint,” and a major energy company that “reported finding more than 15,000 previously undetected instances of SharePoint.”
But lets not worry too much, Stu has learnt that Microsoft is here to save the day with their new “SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool”!
The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a set of free models of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) which allow you to explore the necessary infrastructure based on usage requirements. This tool uses the System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (SCCP) as an engine to provide for data collection, visualization, simulation and report writing. The tool can be used in pre-sales and feasibility study of a deployment project to give you a rough estimate of hardware requirements.
Isn’t that good of them!
Hang on a sec, let me read that again….
“The tool can be used in pre-sales and feasibility study of a deployment project to give you a rough estimate of hardware requirements.”
Ah! So that would be before the viral proliferation then, it just ensures we splash out on a big enough box to make sure this virus can spread! 
But in all seriousness, this does remind me of the early days with Lotus Notes, when databases were created by users, before the IT department came in and put controls in place. Controls which I assume will be coming soon, to a Sharepoint installation near you.
I wonder whether these controls and things like departmental charge-back will have the same effect at stifling this virus, as it did on the adoption of Lotus Notes applications?
Tags: Lotus+Notes, Sharepoint
I came across this on Linkedin answers this morning:
What is around the corner for Lotus Notes?
I do a lot of work with IBM technologies, especially within the Lotus Notes Market.
A number of my clients that are non IBM Partners are migrating from Lotus Notes referring to it a “legacy” system.
Do you think that Lotus Notes will continue to compete in the market?
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts.
Which prompted me to post my first response on Linkedin:
The simple answer is YES!
IBM will continue to compete in this area. Strongly.
Lotus Notes and Domino are now on version 8, which brought a completely refreshed UI, and IBM Lotus is openly talking about future versions and further innovation with the product. They have a clear roadmap for their products. Just because Lotus Notes has been around for so long, does not make it legacy.
I suggest you invest some time in getting up to date on the Lotus product portfolio, which has seen some great innovation this year with Quickr, Connections and Symphony, on top of Sametime and Lotus Notes of course!
I have included some links which I hope you find useful.
Links:
* http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/
* http://www.edbrill.com/
Reading questions like this does make me wonder though. How does someone doing “a lot of work with IBM technologies” not know the answer to this? And I’m not suggesting it is all the author’s fault.
I think both IBM and us in the Lotus community, need to continue to think about ways of reaching out further, beyond our own RSS feeds.
Source: LinkedIn: Answers: What is around the corner for Lotus Notes?
Tags: IBM, Lotus, Lotus+Notes
An article caught my eye this morning, coming in via google alerts, and setting the FUD alarms ringing loud and clear!
As businesses move into the era of highly scalable architectures, SOA, rich customer-facing applications, and mobile workforces, they are discovering that previously satisfactory workgroup and workflow systems no longer provide needed capabilities.
Lotus Notes, in particular, is quickly becoming viewed as a legacy platform that is difficult to shed as part of a move to modern, scalable, and non-proprietary architectures.
This white paper examines:
- Options for rapidly migrating off of Lotus Notes to Microsoft’s .NET platform
- How organizations can better manage the transition
- A solution for migration off the complex Lotus Notes applications to Microsoft’s enterprise infrastructure
I think we could go to town taking this apart, one inaccuracy at a time!
It didn’t take much effort to glean that this so-called white paper has been prepared by a company selling a “service offering for migrating Lotus Notes business applications to the Microsoft and Java platforms.”
No reason to help create and spread FUD there then!?
All on a website purporting to promote “solutions for state and local government in the information age”.
What a joke! Sigh!
Yet more material for Ed to consider when pondering the trends in IT decision making!
Source: Efficiently Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to Modern Platforms by UNIFY Corporation
Tags: FUD, lotus, lotus+notes, migration
Interesting to see this come through the newsvine outside the usual (for me) IBM bloggers, and good to see a company see real value in the Sametime platform and want to publicise openly.
Carestream Health will integrate and sell a key component of the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) platform—IBM Lotus Sametime, the company announced at the 93rd annual meeting at Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).The combination of Lotus Sametime software and Carestream’s radiology services will facilitate rapid communication, including instant messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) interactions between radiologists and other medical professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, according to Carestream.Carestream also said that users can share computer screens, highlighting parts of an image to collaborate on a diagnosis.
Tags: lotus, sametime, carestream, uc2
In order to foster faster communication with everyone at Lotusphere, or even if you just wish to sit back and watch, there will be a Lotusphere channel you can follow and post to. Twitter is setting it up so if you set yourself to follow all the tweets, you can also post to it so everyone gets them. Talk about instant communication when not everyone can be on Sametime and there is breaking news, a vendor giving away cool stuff, when you want to find people or when a vendor has an open party. The possibilities are endless.
This is just a great idea! Whether you can attend or not, this will add to the buzz from Lotusphere in January!
Follow Lotusphere on Twitter: http://twitter.com/lotusphere
Tags: twitter, lotusphere2008
Kevin Hansen in an open letter to Mike Rhodin:
You have the world’s attention at the moment. For the sake of all of us who live and breath Lotus Notes/Domino, please make full use of this brief and rare opportunity.
Out of a strong belief that Notes 8 is the most important release of Notes in the last decade this blog has frequently been a location where I can beg and plead anyone at IBM/Lotus to do more advertising and marketing to get that message out to new audiences. Yes, there have been a number of activities on that circulated around Notes 8 … but its not enough. And, what is out there doesn’t get to the right people. And when it does, it leaves them confused asking “what does an animal hybrid have to do with my company — or Lotus Notes?”
My point is that it is frustrating to believe so strongly in a product and have to frequently respond to questions like “is Lotus Notes still around?”
It is. And it has a great story to tell.
Well worth a read.
Not any more!
Thanks to the solutions in this post from Carl:
Suggestion #1 wasn’t enough to stop it, but one of either #2 or #3 did the job.
This was starting to really bug me, I was having to click “Cancel” and the “Yes I am sure” prompt twice!
Tags: sametime, outlook, integration, startup
Powered by WordPress | Aeros Theme | TheBuckmaker.com WordPress Themes