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Live blogging - Admin2007 Barcelona keynote with Kevin Cavanaugh


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Emergence of a Digital Collaboration Infrastructure -

  • One generation thinks of collaboration in the workplace used to be something around documents (ie: emails, presentations).
  • The next generation thinks of SMS, instant messaging as the paradigm for collaboration
  • The new generation come with MySpace, Facebook and the equivalents.

Product design going forward for Lotus has to take the collaborative energies and bring them together into the workforce.  All the data information, expertise and skills have to be shown in context.  The platform has to be open and enabled for you to plug in innovative infrastructure.  The Lotus infrastructure must be complete and open at the same time to support growth.

Digital Collaboration Infrastructure
  • Collaboration Foundation
  • Web 2.0
  • Beyond Office

Work is now performed not around the technologies, but the activities they are currently involved in.  Software then assist in getting the work completed in context.  Notes 8, Quickr and Sametime enable that to happen.

Domino and Notes 8.0.1 will be released around Lotusphere in January 2008.
  • New DWA client
  • Lotus Quickr integration into side shelf in Standard client
  • Storage reduction through increased compression - up to 35%
  • Native 64-bit support
  • IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Windows Mobile support
  • Support for Mac in beta

Domino 8.5 will ship towards the end of 2008
  • Simplify the Notes Identity management and authentication
  • Reduce storage costs
  • Improve Quality of Service
  • QuickTune
  • Modernize Domino application development.  Tools, infrastructures and technique will take advantage of the frameworks developed in 8 and deliver it in 8.5 (hear that Nathan, just passing info, I have no clue about the dev side.  He said he didn't post on the blogs due to the announcements at Lotusphere coming)

Sametime 8 (we know hits the streets and I post plenty on it).  He did mention Entry that comes in the Domino server for free, then why sell it.  Easy..  those that choose 'other' messaging/email solutions, can still choose Sametime.  Sametime Advanced comes in Q1 of 2008.  It is Sametime for communities, adding social software ideas into the Sametime family.  Persistent chats (seen LotusphereLive done in 2007 without Advanced?) and polling.  Unified Telephony is next up for more aggregated presence, call management and softphones.  Lastly was the acquisition of Sametime Unyte for hosted conferencing services.

Quickr comes in Q1 with integration further into Notes and now the Quick Content Integrator.  This allows you to import information from Sharepoint and shared public folders in Exchange.  You can also synchronize and coexist between them.

Lotus Connections 2.0 will get more enhancements around a 'portal' type page allowing you to being in all your social contacts into a single interface and also better integration into the Notes client

This was a great, smooth and simple presentation showing the direction of Lotus and how things are coming together in context of letting the user work first with the technology in the background,.  Instead of learning new ways due to changes in technology.