The attendee love/hate of ND8 - Copenhagen
Tags :Domino 8 Notes Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar Sametime
Surprise, disappointment, amazement, laughter. We got every reaction possible. Andy and myself fended off countless questions from a fully packed house. The extra seats we planned open were taken by some last minute drop-ins that registered. So what did we learn this city?
- 95% of the attendees use Sametime
- 100% were at 6.5.x or higher and wanting to go to Domino 8.0.1
- Not having Citrix support already for the Standard client made more than one of them very disappointed
- Widget policies were a selling point
- Lotus Connections, Lotus Protector and mainly Productivity Tools were not anything they cared about. Did I mention Productivity Tools?
- Companies in size from 250 users to 40,000 all really use Domino
- Some admins are lucky when they get to go to Brazil for 9 days to install one Domino server
- Lotus Foundations is a cool product if you don't already have a Domino domain, which they all did of course
- Integration of Sametime is awesome
- Integration of Activities is confusing
- The Sametime Gateway is of interest to them
- Coffee breaks are not often enough, mainly after huge lunches
- Attendees love free tools that we give away
- Expanded policy control for desktops and security will be implemented right away
- People are tired of Smart Upgrade and want full provisioning
I am sure there is a few other I will add in. To summarize, the love Domino 8 and wish there was few more things that had made it into the product at the same time. Social networking over here is not popular, while internal chat is. They always have very specific and unique questions that we love getting answers to for them. So excuse me while I collapse, eat a final dinner here and then head home tomorrow . Check my "Where am I headed" tab to see the cities I have booked up.
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On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 by Chris Miller
