Lotus Live is... well... live!
Category IBM/Lotus
There were just a few announcements from IBM/Lotus today. :) Notes 8.5.2 was announced, as well as Lotus Live 1.3. Like a few other bloggers, I was part of a call with Ed Brill today where we were given a bit more information about the Lotus Live announcement and allowed to "beat the vendor". Unfortunately, since I was at work at the time, I didn't have time/access to blog about it shortly thereafter. So much of what could be said *has* been said via other blogs, and often more eloquently than I could have covered it:
Ed Brill
Bilal Jaffery
Chris Miller
Chris Toohey
John Roling
I'm sure a few others will chime in also, but these links will give you a good idea about what was discussed and where things are going.
From my viewpoint, this is a pretty good start. I differ with Ed's view that this is a market-leading offering, as I think you need to have a LOT more people talking about your product than what we've seen and heard so far. When you talk about email in the cloud, Google is still far and away the first thought that comes to mind. Not to say that Lotus Live can't get there, just that it's not there yet in my opinion.
It's also important to understand that Lotus Live does NOT mean Notes applications in the cloud. The Lotus Live offering is a mix (depending on what parts you buy) of calendar, scheduling, email, activities, etc. Your Notes apps still have to run on a server located locally.
Which leads to what I think is one of the strongest features of Lotus Live... It allows you a true hybrid solution based on what makes sense for your needs. It's not an "all-in" solution unless you choose to go that route. You can have some or all of your users and capabilities in the cloud, and you can still run your Notes client locally to access your email in the cloud should you desire that configuration. That makes for an interesting set of options that can give you the best of all worlds based on what makes sense for your organization (instead of what makes sense for your vendor).
Time will tell how this works out, and the devil is *truly* in the details here. But I'm encouraged by what I see so far, and IBM seems to be headed in the right direction for future capabilities and offerings.
There were just a few announcements from IBM/Lotus today. :) Notes 8.5.2 was announced, as well as Lotus Live 1.3. Like a few other bloggers, I was part of a call with Ed Brill today where we were given a bit more information about the Lotus Live announcement and allowed to "beat the vendor". Unfortunately, since I was at work at the time, I didn't have time/access to blog about it shortly thereafter. So much of what could be said *has* been said via other blogs, and often more eloquently than I could have covered it:
Ed Brill
Bilal Jaffery
Chris Miller
Chris Toohey
John Roling
I'm sure a few others will chime in also, but these links will give you a good idea about what was discussed and where things are going.
From my viewpoint, this is a pretty good start. I differ with Ed's view that this is a market-leading offering, as I think you need to have a LOT more people talking about your product than what we've seen and heard so far. When you talk about email in the cloud, Google is still far and away the first thought that comes to mind. Not to say that Lotus Live can't get there, just that it's not there yet in my opinion.
It's also important to understand that Lotus Live does NOT mean Notes applications in the cloud. The Lotus Live offering is a mix (depending on what parts you buy) of calendar, scheduling, email, activities, etc. Your Notes apps still have to run on a server located locally.
Which leads to what I think is one of the strongest features of Lotus Live... It allows you a true hybrid solution based on what makes sense for your needs. It's not an "all-in" solution unless you choose to go that route. You can have some or all of your users and capabilities in the cloud, and you can still run your Notes client locally to access your email in the cloud should you desire that configuration. That makes for an interesting set of options that can give you the best of all worlds based on what makes sense for your organization (instead of what makes sense for your vendor).
Time will tell how this works out, and the devil is *truly* in the details here. But I'm encouraged by what I see so far, and IBM seems to be headed in the right direction for future capabilities and offerings.
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