Live Blogging from Lotusphere Comes to You - St Louis (finished since Ed called me out)
Tags :Conferences
There will be sections to this posting as
I add on per session. I will do the normal highlights and then my
thoughts.
There were 66 people in attendance according to the lunch numbers as a
side note, from places not usually at User Group meetings.
Click below to read on as it grows...
Opening Session - Craig Hayman (Manager of Development and Support teams)
Sametime
- Sametime 7.5 beta projected to be out 3-31-06
- Locator functionality (much like Plazes to me) to see where someone is
- The locator uses the Google map through some small coding
- Meeting audio can be made ready for Podcasts
Domino "Next" as server version
- Activity centric computing, of course
- New document library services
- New team workspaces
- Better provisioning services
Hannover
- Activity center in client
- Activities can be RSS feeds
My opinions -----
Everyone was a little worried when it started on the presentation style, but he relaxed and moved right into the topic. I did not like when he said let's look at the changes and went from one Powerpoint right into a ScreenCam type. People around thought it was going to be live.
Activity Centric and Activity Center raises two questions in my mind and one that ended up being asked with no answer. How do you archive out activities? Where are activities stored?
INV101 Lotus Notes & Domino "Hannover" and Beyond - Luke Raiano (product manager)
This one is a straight list of bullets
- Mac release in 7.0.2 for OSX 10.4, Power and Intel based
- Firefox support for Mac with DWA7 template on server
- An included blog template with Domino
- RSS integration and better support
- DDM improvements
- SpamGuru integration
- Message recall ability
- Message format conversion support enhanced
- Streaming replication
- AOL IM clearinghouse for federation
- Improved LDAP performance
- Use a non-Domino LDAP to define users (version 8+)
My opinions -----
The Mac pushes are awesome to see. Lotus overlooks the loudness of them, but turns it around. I think it is apparent that Mac is not a push for initial releases, but they will catch it up. We saw that in 6 and now 7.
The blog template interests me, since they could have easily worked agreement with the two big blog templates out there. I know DominoBlog has made an incredible stride in team, group and individual blogging. Amazing with the ability of multiple skins and the sort. Case in point, I could easily move my content into Ed's blog and vice-versa.
DDM improvements have a long way to go. Hopefully my input to that team is helping on a personal side. There is a lot of room for growth. Don't get me wrong, this has been a long time coming, well tweaking (another post entirely).
SpamGuru and Message Recall. Let's think here. SpamGuru is needed, hands down. There are plenty of providers, but what is better than free right? Message Recall, I still don't buy the overall benefits of this one. You certainly cant get your message from a persons answering machine back, so why be able to pull a message once you click send? It is called accountability, not let me fix that boo boo.
Streaming replication is a must have. We see it in clusters and through some third parties, but couple this with compression, native since Domino 6, and you have a superior topology no other vendor can touch.
Now I am leaving the LDAP comment to another post which I will link to. This has great impact and is a topic I have talked to Lotus about numerous times.
Realtime Collaboration Roadmap - Adam Gartenberg (Sametime product management)
- Eclipse based application platform
- Integration of the IBM Community Tools (ICT) into Sametime
- Better name change handling
- Seamless reconnect enhancements
- SIP and VP protocol
- Click-to-talk for PC to PC over VOIP
- Click-to-call for calls to any phone initiated by Sametime through audio adapter
- Skilltap from ICT will not be able to grab users through the gateway interface for AOL and Yahoo! (etc)
My opinions -----
I have this to say right now outside of NDA stuff and the normal possible beatings of IBMer's and psuedo-lawyers. The changes in Sametime 7.5 are monumental in giving users what they want on the client side. The integration of ICT from IBM Alpahworks adds cool features many users have not seen. While I have used ICT off and on, I loved the idea but it needed more. Sametime needed more. Together, wow. While no clear path to migrate an existing ICT infrastructure outside of moving buddylists is out there now, I don't think that is a show stopper anywhere.
The clearinghouse services to link the numerous public IM's to Sametime is a boon for Lotus. What other vendor in the ownership of the enterprise space can touch that claim? Let me count, ok done. None!
Click-to-everything will transform meetings with audio bridges. Don't go getting all giddy until you look at your network and understand the repercussions of adding VOIP for every meeting and bandwidth needs. Outside of that, all the previous work I have done with Premier and the new looks and integration with other vendors removes some of those phone needs. Now just toss some DUCS in the mix and you are starting to get the idea of true unified messaging.
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On Thursday, March 9th, 2006 by Chris Miller
