Lotusphere2007 Day 3 completed
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I started the day in a BOF with Wes Morgan BOF that I walked out on before heading to Wes. Now, to move from session to session is a normal event for everyone based on what you expected and want to hear in the short times you have, but rarely would I use the words walked out on. It was not a sponsor event where you expect to hear about a certain solution. It was an advertisement for the services of the host of the BOF. I even took some of the placards placed on the seats with me. One side was promoting the BOF itself, well done and glossy. The other was a terribly blatant ad to this solution and the host led right into it the first couple minutes. This is something personally I have not done in my sessions. While what I do is not a secret, I don't mention it unless they expect some background on us. Ok, the rant is over on that topic.
Now on to Wes. A small session but well run, as usual, and full of comments. The people there were slow to start speaking up but it slowly moved into more questions and answers about deployment, plug-ins versus bots and versioning.
One of the tones of the opening is the Social Computing aspect. They launched Lotus Connections and placed it in the online system for the attendees. I played with this for a while and some thoughts came to mind. So I started thinking of whom I could ask for opinions. After Ted and I tossed it around during lunch I just happened to run into Alan Lepofsky who willingly wanted to answer the questions I had burning in my brain since he is the marketing guy for this product! One of those weird by chance instances I asked him about it. So look for that podcast in a few minutes. I have more comments after that.
Lastly it was the vendor floor for quite a while. It is nice to see the enthusiasm of the products as you walked around on a break. I did see many that were definitely competing in numerous areas which just shows the strong growth of the Lotus products in the marketplace. You don't have vendors flocking to sell services and software when the Lotus Notes marketshare is declining do you?
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On Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 by Chris Miller
