ND8 Upgrade Seminar in London recap
Tags :Domino 8 Sametime
One more city down for the Notes Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar, with 2 North American cities left to go (San Francisco and Toronto). Once again I was not disappointed in what the attendees had to say and provide for feedback.
- 100% were on 6.5.x and higher (ok outside of one desolate R5 server)
- 85% used Sametime already and really needed to understand what the new integration offered. They liked it but had rightful concerns over missing functionality and the locking of the chat as Notes did other things
- The limited number of users you can get on Citrix with the Standard client sucks and they let me know
- Widgets need tons of business value demos to sell them to the executives
- Productivity Tools were the doorstop of the sessions with people stepping right on by
- Lotus Connections made no sense to 90% of them at first. Later, about 50% I think really got it (while they all then understood it). But managing all that additional hardware was brought up
- 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 if it was available while doing something else in Notes 8. Otherwise they want the standalone version (mentioned again)
- Integration of Activities is confusing to many as to why choose that or Quickr or why at all. This got answered
- The Sametime Gateway is of interest to them but MS connectivity is still a demand in Europe
- 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, Oh yeah, and provisioning that actually works, which is broke right now
- I know the list went on by I will update after I sleep and fly....
I broke their hearts when I taught all about site updates to only let them down with it isn't working. On the good side, I think many are excited about the upgrade. I was surprised at the length of time a lot will be taking to get upgraded in full. We are talking well into next year.
Food this week was excellent, and I caught the play Billy Elliot (review here). Dinner the first night was Kare Kare, an excellent Indian place. Next up was a chain before the play for speed reasons and finally Amaya. Outside of that it was all conference food for me :-)
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On Thursday, May 15th, 2008 by Chris Miller
