Quote in Techworld.com from Alan Lepofsky on Lotus Connections
Tags :Lotus Connections
The following article popped up on Particls:
Connections developed out of an in-house toolset called IBM Innovation Factory, and features five main elements: profiles, shared bookmarks, activities, communities and blogs.....
"Profiling is an evolution of your Linkedin or Myspace page, adding management, activities and so on," says Lepofsky. "We could have built it in the Domino directory, but we also wanted to be able to reach non-Domino customers and users."
The part that struck me is that support for the Domino Directory via LDAP was not tossed into the V1 release. Basically going in the opposite direction. Instead of not just offering it for Domino customers, it alienated pushes against what they built for years and points them into another directory direction. (Domino LDAP support is rumored to be coming in a point release though) With the upcoming Sametime and Quickr integration, which shares presence through any LDAP source, including the Domino Directory, will have to be merged into this architecture. Mainly if you have already built the integration point against Domino LDAP and combined the presence.
I really wish the first release would have reached into Domino LDAP and made the sale easier into some of the existing Domino customers.
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On Monday, July 2nd, 2007 by Chris Miller
