by Chris Miller at 07:26:46 PM on Thursday, August 31st, 2006
As I read more about IE7 I thought about how far ahead Lotus was once again. So what my new browser can read RSS. I have had applications doing that for years now. Where is the workflow and manipulation of data once I get it in there?
With so much information overflow, I see the path Mike Rhodin has talked about. While I do not agree with dogears and some of the mash-up talk just yet, the consolidation and compilation of all the data I want can now be sent from and into Notes databases easier than ever.
How much time do we spend trying to keep clients gathering feeds all to ourselves? How does that benefit our business partners, customers and even friends? It doesn't when only you see Bloglines, your Feed Demon or Atom application.
Right now we all fight over what is important to us by subscribing to RSS feeds individually and hoping the content continues to give us what our minds find interesting. But, I have to get links from others to find new content I never subscribed to. In a portal or enterprise scenario I can reach everyone with what is important to the company and then let them see what is important to each other by rankings and how often topics are reviewed.
Who has the first workflow driven, tracking and mashed together RSS database built?
With so much information overflow, I see the path Mike Rhodin has talked about. While I do not agree with dogears and some of the mash-up talk just yet, the consolidation and compilation of all the data I want can now be sent from and into Notes databases easier than ever.
How much time do we spend trying to keep clients gathering feeds all to ourselves? How does that benefit our business partners, customers and even friends? It doesn't when only you see Bloglines, your Feed Demon or Atom application.
Right now we all fight over what is important to us by subscribing to RSS feeds individually and hoping the content continues to give us what our minds find interesting. But, I have to get links from others to find new content I never subscribed to. In a portal or enterprise scenario I can reach everyone with what is important to the company and then let them see what is important to each other by rankings and how often topics are reviewed.
Who has the first workflow driven, tracking and mashed together RSS database built?
by Chris Miller at 03:23:50 PM on Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
I found an article about a product set that assist in migrating Notes mailboxes to Exchange. The lines that stuck out were as follows:
Quest, which says it has migrated more than a million Notes mailboxes to date, ...
Where the heck are all these users?
There is a podcast you must listen to, for at least the first minute, that they put on the right side. The podcast's first question that asks why people are moving. Ron, quoted above, actually states that there is confusion around whether Notes will be around and the move to Workplace Messaging replacing Notes. Of course, the interviewer and Ron are both Quest employees. The statement that there is more mobile options on Exchange and greater reliability had us laughing in the office. Oh please go listen and laugh along. Then taunt them with me.
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"We seeing larger customers moving to Exchange," says Ron Robbins, product manager for Exchange migration solutions at Quest. "we are seeing 20,000 to 50,000 user accounts moving over..."
Quest, which says it has migrated more than a million Notes mailboxes to date, ...
Where the heck are all these users?
There is a podcast you must listen to, for at least the first minute, that they put on the right side. The podcast's first question that asks why people are moving. Ron, quoted above, actually states that there is confusion around whether Notes will be around and the move to Workplace Messaging replacing Notes. Of course, the interviewer and Ron are both Quest employees. The statement that there is more mobile options on Exchange and greater reliability had us laughing in the office. Oh please go listen and laugh along. Then taunt them with me.
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by Chris Miller at 01:04:08 PM on Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
It seems that blog comment spammers are getting smarter. We were seeing comment spam even starting in e stats databases that some of us run for DominoBlog. That you will soon find in 7.0.2 of course. However, while upgrading our main blogs to 3.x in version that had spam blocking for comments, many forgot to upgrade the stats database also. So we were getting an influx.
There were some other smaller side issues we were cleaning up, but the lesson here is preventative maintenance for all!
There were some other smaller side issues we were cleaning up, but the lesson here is preventative maintenance for all!
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by Chris Miller at 09:57:38 AM on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
A BusinessWire news article showing the growing partners seeing the value in Sametime 7.5 integration into their products:
Pretty soon you will be able to have any kind of VOIP or video conference it seems with all the integration going on. Avaya and the others already included in that mix.
Lotus Sametime users with a PC webcam will be able to instantly connect to other video users, checking user presence and availability through the Lotus Sametime 7.5 Connect client, as well as escalate an IM or web-conferencing session into a real-time, face-to-face meeting. In addition, video calls can be launched from a PC to any standards-based, business-quality endpoint, further leveraging existing investment in video.
Pretty soon you will be able to have any kind of VOIP or video conference it seems with all the integration going on. Avaya and the others already included in that mix.
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by Chris Miller at 11:39:06 AM on Monday, August 28th, 2006
This has been sitting on my desk in actual print copy for a week but it was one of those "I will get around to blogging it" items. But I wanted to throw it away so here we go.
I would think that there is for most in the IT industry with careful thought and planning. If you are providing meaningful technical content you are showing skillset. If you are bashing your employer or customers, you are likely to get fired. If you are promoting your employer by driving customers from the blog to your corporate site, you are providing benefit. If you are scaring off people looking at you as an employee or possible solution provider, you have taken the wrong angle in blogging.
I find it as a great output and even a personal point of reference material. How many times have I mentioned technotes to issues we have seen? How many tips or shortcuts? I don't know but I realize I can go back anytime. This is the same with my newsletter for LotusUserGroup and now podcast. As the means to reach more people becomes available, I change they way I produce information.
How much time is too much time blogging? I knock these out quite quick or come back through the day or night until it is ready. I have numerous ones in draft mode that never saw the light of day for one reason or another. I think we are seeing so much information put out there it is hard to keep up as a reader. Some of us are able to post quite a few topic (hint Ed). But he is reaching amazing amounts of Lotus information seekers throughout the world. This serves as a huge benefit to his employer, not just himself. Sure, most of us knew of Ed previously, but do you think a few of the recent newspapers and magazines would be mentioning him if not indicating him as a blogger? I would tend to say no. It is all exposure.
One thing that the article does not address is where the blogging is performed. Can an employee be fired for having a personal blog that does not contain any indication of the company, but has distasteful content? We already have precedent on firing over work blogs that cover work content or people.
With so many widely publicized examples of employees getting sacked for posting their thoughts online, is there any career upside for IT professionals who want to create their own blogs?
I would think that there is for most in the IT industry with careful thought and planning. If you are providing meaningful technical content you are showing skillset. If you are bashing your employer or customers, you are likely to get fired. If you are promoting your employer by driving customers from the blog to your corporate site, you are providing benefit. If you are scaring off people looking at you as an employee or possible solution provider, you have taken the wrong angle in blogging.
I find it as a great output and even a personal point of reference material. How many times have I mentioned technotes to issues we have seen? How many tips or shortcuts? I don't know but I realize I can go back anytime. This is the same with my newsletter for LotusUserGroup and now podcast. As the means to reach more people becomes available, I change they way I produce information.
How much time is too much time blogging? I knock these out quite quick or come back through the day or night until it is ready. I have numerous ones in draft mode that never saw the light of day for one reason or another. I think we are seeing so much information put out there it is hard to keep up as a reader. Some of us are able to post quite a few topic (hint Ed). But he is reaching amazing amounts of Lotus information seekers throughout the world. This serves as a huge benefit to his employer, not just himself. Sure, most of us knew of Ed previously, but do you think a few of the recent newspapers and magazines would be mentioning him if not indicating him as a blogger? I would tend to say no. It is all exposure.
One thing that the article does not address is where the blogging is performed. Can an employee be fired for having a personal blog that does not contain any indication of the company, but has distasteful content? We already have precedent on firing over work blogs that cover work content or people.
by Chris Miller at 01:41:10 PM on Friday, August 25th, 2006
As you know, Collaboration University is right around the corner. Some of our sessions will include talks of plug-in capability. We thought, what better than to demonstrate the Business Partner and customer power? Your plug-ins would not be disseminated to people in any way, but full credit would be given during the session.
A nice free marketing move for you and a live demo tool for us. While the samples are out there and a few that are being put together, I know there is a wider array people are working on. I know some are not finished, but even a skeleton would be a great start.
Email myself "IdoNotes at Netscape.net " and let me know! If you have not registered hit the image link on the left, and bring some friends.
A nice free marketing move for you and a live demo tool for us. While the samples are out there and a few that are being put together, I know there is a wider array people are working on. I know some are not finished, but even a skeleton would be a great start.
Email myself "IdoNotes at Netscape.net " and let me know! If you have not registered hit the image link on the left, and bring some friends.
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by Chris Miller at 01:21:27 PM on Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Well a funny thing resurfaced in the world of Internet shortcuts. People are getting into the habit of using the '@' symbol for the word 'at' more often, instead of just in email addresses. Like:
'Meet me @ 5'
'I will be @ the office'
But, I found that when I went home last night with the new Sametime 7.5 Connect client, I said @Home in my Location when prompted. Unfortunately it blanked out the Location field from showing. If I simply removed the @ symbol,, it all came back. Bizarre and from reading it was deferred to a later fix.
On the positive side, the location setting is great and makes finding how to contact and where people are a great thing. It works well so far for our sales team that upgraded right away and some of our people at customer sites. Good stuff there.
'Meet me @ 5'
'I will be @ the office'
But, I found that when I went home last night with the new Sametime 7.5 Connect client, I said @Home in my Location when prompted. Unfortunately it blanked out the Location field from showing. If I simply removed the @ symbol,, it all came back. Bizarre and from reading it was deferred to a later fix.
On the positive side, the location setting is great and makes finding how to contact and where people are a great thing. It works well so far for our sales team that upgraded right away and some of our people at customer sites. Good stuff there.
by Chris Miller at 11:40:02 AM on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Normally a Sametime server in the past would have the Connect client code laying around for anyone to download placed on the server upon installation. Removing the download link only became a deterrent and not a measure to not have users install it. Why would this be a concern? Because you might be running in 'free' mode using the integrated components with the Notes client only. A user connecting with the full client would be a license issue. So in Sametime 7.5, whether on purpose or not, does not have the package available for download unless the administrator puts it there.
After you complete the installation of the IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Server release, you will need to copy the Sametime Connect 7.5 client installation files to the Sametime server. End users will be unable to download and install the client files until you perform this task.
The client installation files are posted on the IBM download site. There are 3 files, one for each client platform:
Windows: sametime-connect-win-7.5.0.exe
So if you are looking for it when you install the Sametime server, you must grab it separately and then place it on the server yourself to make it available. Cool..
After you complete the installation of the IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Server release, you will need to copy the Sametime Connect 7.5 client installation files to the Sametime server. End users will be unable to download and install the client files until you perform this task.
The client installation files are posted on the IBM download site. There are 3 files, one for each client platform:
Windows: sametime-connect-win-7.5.0.exe
So if you are looking for it when you install the Sametime server, you must grab it separately and then place it on the server yourself to make it available. Cool..
by Chris Miller at 08:51:00 AM on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
People were questioning what I was hinting at. Well since I see 7.5 coming out the door in official launches and such soon, I should explain there is room to grow in the management and some things deferred till later that would be awesome now.
Sean Harris points me to Chris Pepin's posting with the pdf from Lotusphere on the scalability of the IBM Sametime environment. Taking a screenshot from there, how many of you could get your enterprise to offer a server farm like this (of course scale to your size of employees) ?
Picture multiple MUX servers with Community Sametime servers sitting behind that. A world of possibilities yes. But my posting was not about the server side as much as the client.
My comments revolved around how fast it jumped out of of beta even after a beta call just days before, not the scalability of the product. That is to be determined at a later date as usual. I personally think (since this is a personal blog) that I was anticipating another beta drop or longer cycle to clear some of the items to get built in or fixed for the product.
The server core stays the same in 7.5 with a few added things and UI for web meetings. Most of the work is in the awesome Connect client. However, there is still management things to be done with this amount of capabilities.
Sean Harris points me to Chris Pepin's posting with the pdf from Lotusphere on the scalability of the IBM Sametime environment. Taking a screenshot from there, how many of you could get your enterprise to offer a server farm like this (of course scale to your size of employees) ?
Picture multiple MUX servers with Community Sametime servers sitting behind that. A world of possibilities yes. But my posting was not about the server side as much as the client.
My comments revolved around how fast it jumped out of of beta even after a beta call just days before, not the scalability of the product. That is to be determined at a later date as usual. I personally think (since this is a personal blog) that I was anticipating another beta drop or longer cycle to clear some of the items to get built in or fixed for the product.
The server core stays the same in 7.5 with a few added things and UI for web meetings. Most of the work is in the awesome Connect client. However, there is still management things to be done with this amount of capabilities.
by Chris Miller at 01:00:00 PM on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
You can go over here to get the newsletter for you slacker non-subscribers. But, there is a special little tidbit at the top. This issue is available as an mp3 podcast 
and will be hooked to iTunes shortly. You have to log in for now to grab the podcast. This was a first attempt and I don't think it was half bad. Which makes it better than half good.
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by Chris Miller at 09:50:36 AM on Friday, August 18th, 2006
'Nuff said
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by Chris Miller at 02:26:26 PM on Thursday, August 17th, 2006
| So here is the issue. You wish to do SSL for SMTP. Looking at Domino you see that it is disabled by default for both inbound and outbound SSL over port 465. However, we could not get anything to connect from outside out network to a server that was offering SSL for SMTP after being enabled. We had both Anonymous and Name & Password set to 'Yes" also. |
After searching the firewall logs we found that connections were never getting to the firewall in the first place. So we went farther back to the edge routers. What we found was that the port 465 packets were getting dropped for some reason. After some digging by our network team we found this lovely bit of information. Basically Domino still uses port 465 for SSL over SMTP. This port was assigned and picked up by Cisco URD (URL Rendezvous Directory for SSM) after the V3 SSL standard was drafted 10 years ago. The port never made it out of Reserved (pending) with IANA according to what I could find on the Internet.
So the recommended approach is to start communications with a START TLS encryption instead of move your SMTP SSL port somewhere else. While it might work over port 465, there is no guarantee is Cisco routers are somewhere in the middle of the communication.
- References:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1835 /products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00800ca795.html
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html
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by Chris Miller at 09:57:32 AM on Thursday, August 17th, 2006
We normally have a pedestal which includes some badges so I never pay attention. But the early bird rate caught my eye in the corner of the screen. Here is the breakdown:
Will this inhibit your company from getting budget to go?
- Now to Oct 13 2006 it is $1695
- Oct 14 - Dec 8 2006 it is $1895
- Dec 9 2006 it goes up to $2095
Will this inhibit your company from getting budget to go?
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by Chris Miller at 02:47:06 PM on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
I saw the formal announcement hit the newswires. Lotus talked about this coming on a webcast a month or so ago and it has finally seen the light. It seems this has some more qualifications to even pass the test compared to previous ones.
IBM has just released a new designation for Notes and Domino 7 professionals. The new certification is named IBM Certified Advanced Security Professional - Notes and Domino 7. The single exam for this designation is Exam 755: IBM Lotus Notes Domino 7 Implementing and Administering Security. You must first be an IBM Certified Administrator for Lotus Notes and Domino 7 before you can earn this title.
So the Lotus site goes on to state that you must be a CLP in Domino 7 and then take this exam. Here is the part i found interesting:
So there are 3 sections listed and you have to pass each one to get the certification unlike previous exams. Nice touch!
Do you see the value in this exam?
New IBM Security Certification
IBM has just released a new designation for Notes and Domino 7 professionals. The new certification is named IBM Certified Advanced Security Professional - Notes and Domino 7. The single exam for this designation is Exam 755: IBM Lotus Notes Domino 7 Implementing and Administering Security. You must first be an IBM Certified Administrator for Lotus Notes and Domino 7 before you can earn this title.
So the Lotus site goes on to state that you must be a CLP in Domino 7 and then take this exam. Here is the part i found interesting:
You must receive a passing score for each of these areas plus you must receive an overall passing score
So there are 3 sections listed and you have to pass each one to get the certification unlike previous exams. Nice touch!
Do you see the value in this exam?
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by Chris Miller at 03:41:09 PM on Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
One more of those tools you never think you will need. Found under :
Server-Analysis-Analyze-Find Server
Server-Analysis-Analyze-Find Server
by Chris Miller at 06:20:00 AM on Monday, August 14th, 2006
Adam G has all the info and press releases being updated on his blog. What does this announcement mean to us? Not quite sure yet. We don't get as many requests for Linux and Domino as one would think. Yes, we have some, just not as many as people would lead you to believe. Then again, you still pay about the same rate for a supported and licensed Linux server. The desktops are a whole other story. With Sametime Connect 7.5 plus Notes on the desktop, you are now holding the power of change and negotiation in your hand.
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by Chris Miller at 09:26:23 AM on Monday, August 14th, 2006
I have had a couple requests on memory usage with the Sametime 7.5 Connect client. How much does it take? What are the minimum requirements on the PC? Etc..
Keep in mind these numbers are represented by the latest beta code and might still have debug left, yada yada. You know the drill..
Well here is what I have found for the standard user on Windows XP:
So take that how you wish, but that is what the basics are for now
Keep in mind these numbers are represented by the latest beta code and might still have debug left, yada yada. You know the drill..
Well here is what I have found for the standard user on Windows XP:
- When first launched and opened it was eating ~32MB
- When minimized to status bar with the minimize button and not the 'X' it drops to a nice low ~2-3MB
- When reopened to the screen it was ~12mb
- When a text chat comes in it jumps to ~42MB and then settles back into ~35-37MB
- When closed with the 'X' to the status bar it stays at ~34MB
- When a chat is open but the buddylist is sent to the status bar with the minimize it ran about ~10-13B
- When a chat is being typed in with the buddylist minimized it ran about ~17MB
- A voice chat kept the system at ~38MB plus another sametime.exe at ~2MB
- Chat History ate up about the same memory as when you have the client opened
- Instant Meetings didn't change the client memory just added the browser usage as expected
So take that how you wish, but that is what the basics are for now
by Chris Miller at 12:56:29 PM on Friday, August 11th, 2006
Therefore making it hard to reference someone in responses when a new person posted. So I reversed the order from the DominoBlog default and when you comment it goes in the proper order
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I must apologize and amend my earlier today Sametime 7.5 posting. I found it in the new beta stream!
by Chris Miller at 12:47:30 PM on Thursday, August 10th, 2006
(NOTE: Adam G hit my posting as a response before I could retype this one showing the same thing, yes they fixed it! Thanks for the example Adam)
Apparently somewhere along the way they fixed the issue from what I posted right below. In the recent beta you can go into preferences for the community and change icons. That always worked. Then under Contact List Window you select (which the UI changed from earlier) to show the community icon for each person with some percentage of transparency and viola!!
Now we have to see if that is true for the RTC stuff. I know there is some hidden AOL icons in some jar files, so I bet it will exist somehow. Crossing fingers... (this is looking like Trillian in the main buddylist window now) Prey for tabbed chats.
Apparently somewhere along the way they fixed the issue from what I posted right below. In the recent beta you can go into preferences for the community and change icons. That always worked. Then under Contact List Window you select (which the UI changed from earlier) to show the community icon for each person with some percentage of transparency and viola!!
Now we have to see if that is true for the RTC stuff. I know there is some hidden AOL icons in some jar files, so I bet it will exist somehow. Crossing fingers... (this is looking like Trillian in the main buddylist window now) Prey for tabbed chats.
by Chris Miller at 10:58:26 AM on Thursday, August 10th, 2006
I went ahead and loaded the SDK and Eclipse dev platform to see how hard some plug-in manipulation would be for the average non-developer user. Let's say it is not pretty. While I was able to follow the steps in the pdf file to get it started fairly well, from there it gets blurry. I will update more on that part later. Now..
So I went into simpler items such as adding community icons to my client and trying to replace the darned greyman group. If you have not seen it yet, when a users does not have a picture available, it shows a nice grey head of a person as a placeholder. I was able to track down that .png image in the .jar files and replaced it with a company logo. Turned out quite nice actually
The specs:
Here are some new icons I added for the communities for more color selection. Orange, "Yellow is the new black" and green.
Go away, nothing to see here, it has been fixed, see newer posting above this one.....
< rant >The community icon should apply to each person you add in my eyes. That really bites as it would be nice (like other clients, *cough* Trillian) to tell which community a person came from. Then you can cross match groups by task, team or whatever and see where they are linked to.< / rant >
So I went into simpler items such as adding community icons to my client and trying to replace the darned greyman group. If you have not seen it yet, when a users does not have a picture available, it shows a nice grey head of a person as a placeholder. I was able to track down that .png image in the .jar files and replaced it with a company logo. Turned out quite nice actually
The specs:
- Image_Placeholder better known as Greyman Group is 37x37 pixels
- Community icons are 16x16 and only affect the community icon at the top of the buddylist window, not anyone associated with it.
Here are some new icons I added for the communities for more color selection. Orange, "Yellow is the new black" and green.
Go away, nothing to see here, it has been fixed, see newer posting above this one.....
< rant >The community icon should apply to each person you add in my eyes. That really bites as it would be nice (like other clients, *cough* Trillian) to tell which community a person came from. Then you can cross match groups by task, team or whatever and see where they are linked to.< / rant >
by Chris Miller at 11:37:52 AM on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Upon reading the Release Notes for the current build of Sametime 7.5, I came across a good thing to know for all administrators that have current Sametime environments. If anyone has utilized the function of "Who can see me" in their previous Connect client, there is a utility that must be run after upgrading to covert these over to the new Privacy functions. If not, they won't function the same. They added some new capabilities and you can see that in how they note in the Connect client preferences that certain things are for 7.5 servers and users only.
There was a technote references under #1242317 for "Migrating privacy data after upgrading to Sametime 7.5." Unfortunately this is being held.
I found the UpgradeBLUtil.jar on the server but I am not sure what flags or whatever to run so I am holding off testing it for now. Let me see if I can get some info.
There was a technote references under #1242317 for "Migrating privacy data after upgrading to Sametime 7.5." Unfortunately this is being held.
I found the UpgradeBLUtil.jar on the server but I am not sure what flags or whatever to run so I am holding off testing it for now. Let me see if I can get some info.
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by Chris Miller at 10:35:28 AM on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Geek toy alert: The new Plazes badge runs on Flash with color options and built in history. Check it out on the right while on my homepage here
I had to update since Ed took you right to one of my postings where I had not changed the frame yet
I had to update since Ed took you right to one of my postings where I had not changed the frame yet
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by Chris Miller at 03:16:08 PM on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Yes I wish he had done it over here or a link, so I will give you one instead. In his defense, I did not read all the press releases to catch a mention of the RTC being behind the GA of Sametime 7.5
But in my defense, then he is correct in his posting, it wasn't quite loud when it was announced that it would be sometime behind in release date. I did some searching and the first article on a Google search was an excellent article done in May 06 on DeveloperWorks. It states the following:
Of course, that date coincides with the projected release date of 7.5 itself. So some more reading only talked about the architecture of it. There might have been some dates in the Lotusphere slides but I will follow Adam saying it was told to us, just not loudly.
Some more searching through articles in July across InfoWorld and ComputerWorld Hong Kong gave me the same thing. Yes, the MS integration is 2007, mobile support is late 2006 but the RTC never hints being past the GA release date.
So there, that shows you for reading and believing me in any way :-)
But in my defense, then he is correct in his posting, it wasn't quite loud when it was announced that it would be sometime behind in release date. I did some searching and the first article on a Google search was an excellent article done in May 06 on DeveloperWorks. It states the following:
The initial release of the RTC Gateway is scheduled for Q3 2006 and will be free of charge with a Sametime server. This Gateway also provides free integration with public IM communities. IBM will release four protocol connectors with the initial ship of the RTC Gateway.
Of course, that date coincides with the projected release date of 7.5 itself. So some more reading only talked about the architecture of it. There might have been some dates in the Lotusphere slides but I will follow Adam saying it was told to us, just not loudly.
Some more searching through articles in July across InfoWorld and ComputerWorld Hong Kong gave me the same thing. Yes, the MS integration is 2007, mobile support is late 2006 but the RTC never hints being past the GA release date.
So there, that shows you for reading and believing me in any way :-)
by Chris Miller at 04:17:48 PM on Monday, August 7th, 2006
I have been interested in this since it was announced at Lotusphere just over 6 months ago. But it seems that the Real-time Collaboration Gateway will not see light of day when Sametime 7.5 first ships. I have not heard a peep about beta of this portion of the product and out perusing the blogs I came across Adam G's posting on how the Mac will not make it into the first GA release either.
I would love to see this ship sooner or even start playing around with it. I have companies asking about this ability since it will allow a more controlled chat environment with the rest of the world. Now the gateway will use SIP to hit the outside products (Yahoo, G-talk and AIM) which the native protocol will take care of Sametime to Sametime connectivity. I can see a bunch of connectors (including one for Sametime to Sametime communities) you can install or turn on and off to control which outside chat vendors your people speak to. Or maybe this will move into policy control also.
I would love to see this ship sooner or even start playing around with it. I have companies asking about this ability since it will allow a more controlled chat environment with the rest of the world. Now the gateway will use SIP to hit the outside products (Yahoo, G-talk and AIM) which the native protocol will take care of Sametime to Sametime connectivity. I can see a bunch of connectors (including one for Sametime to Sametime communities) you can install or turn on and off to control which outside chat vendors your people speak to. Or maybe this will move into policy control also.
by Chris Miller at 11:29:24 AM on Monday, August 7th, 2006
by Chris Miller at 09:36:46 AM on Monday, August 7th, 2006
Well certainly no travel excuses for me for next years event...
Dear Valued Business Partner:
Mark your calendars! PartnerWorld 2007 will be held April 29 - May 2, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri. Yes, based on your feedback, we've changed the date and venue for IBM's premier channel event. Attend PartnerWorld 2007 and explore this culturally diverse city on the banks of the Mississippi River. Known as the Gateway City, St. Louis is easily accessible with a wide range of flights offered from across the United States and abroad.
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by Chris Miller at 01:26:05 PM on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
With the move to the Eclipse based installation for the Connect client in 7.5, even though it is quite the memory muncher at this point, I thought this would finally be the perfect way to get the full Sametime client onto the U3 USB key, just like Nomad. Currently some things are still written to the Windows registry, even though beta 2 was a fully independent and just ran from a simple directory. I wish it had stayed that way.
So pointing the chat transcript folder to the USB drive doesn't always work either as the drive letter might change each time you plug the device in. A native directory path to the Sametime folder would be nice however. Or just turn it off for that instance of the Connect client is my next thought.
Sorry for the rambling thoughts on getting certain features working, but I am really trying to make sure this works on the USB now.
So pointing the chat transcript folder to the USB drive doesn't always work either as the drive letter might change each time you plug the device in. A native directory path to the Sametime folder would be nice however. Or just turn it off for that instance of the Connect client is my next thought.
Sorry for the rambling thoughts on getting certain features working, but I am really trying to make sure this works on the USB now.
by Chris Miller at 02:41:00 PM on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Lotus notes on Linux sucks
Not quite sure how to take that after the posting last week on our installs on Linux. Read the comment on that posting for a good tip on how to install just the Notes part again if you run out of temp space.
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Yes this is a blatant theft of the outline that Jess uses on her page, but I asked permission. Why?? Because I am a hardcore admin and can make ugly tables to make you developers frustrated, but this was too nice to pass up.
Also Known As: Chris Miller (when awake)
Boring Certifications: (only because someone asked twice)
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Yes, I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
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- An 8830 Blackberry
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- Verizon and they always seem to know how to find me, damn cell
Animals:
One dog, a Puggle. He eats anything that includes stuffing. Anything
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Next is the MP3 hard-drive for the car that I found. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.
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- Yeah, yeah it goes on some
Skills:
Get back to you here
Spells:
Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.
Character Bio:
This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.
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