Overview of Real-Time Collaboration Seminar - Philly
Tags :Blackberry Sametime
So today ends the 3-day seminar. I crammed in a podcast, announcing the Lotusphere2007 t-shirts with the Taking Notes guys and even digging deep in the conversations around the Sametime Gateway.
As for here, the normal array. Only a couple hands running older versions of Sametime, from 3.1 and below. No one really had a full implementation of 7.5 outside of a couple small shops. One site even used the integrated calendaring feature to invite the Sametime server for all of their meetings. I do not see that often at all.
The demand for scalable and clustered architectures was the largest I had seen so far. There were some larger enterprises represented that were asking about architecture design and deploying everything from clusters to MUX's with load balancers. It was nice to see that Sametime 7.5 is becoming a commodity and looked upon as a business tool. The session on plug-ins showed some of the capabilities, and now that I have tested and actually ran the auto updates from the server side, it made the push in that direction stronger for myself. I took great interest in the new redpaper Carl mentioned and can't wait for it to hit full redbook. It has a couple cool plug-in ideas. It will offer some sample code download too.
Deployment was a concern, mainly over the amount of features. I posed a question to Adam G offline asking about the ability to reduce memory load by removing feature sets from the client. This was asked more than once by attendees here and other cities. Basically the thinking is that if I am not using it or deploying it, why do I have to show it and can I save from that in memory.
Dinner the second night (the first night I missed a connection due to mechanical issues on the plane) was at Bella Trattoria. Excellent food, thanks to Andy P for choosing. Otherwise I got to see nothing outside of the hotel and a walk to a local sports grille.
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On Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 by Chris Miller
