Lotusphere Day 3 - Monday...
Category Lotusphere 2005
General session and a day's worth of sessions... *THIS* is the 'sphere.
The general session was great. Goyal came out swinging at Microsoft, sales figures were announced that showed double-digit growth in a "stagnate, mature" industy, John Cleese was the guest speaker (very funny), and the ability to run Notes in the Workplace rich client will come in 7.0, not 8.0. All good stuff.
From there it was on to sessions for what's new in the Notes 7.0 client and what's new in the Domino Designer 7.0. As usual, there are plenty of things I'd like to use in the new designer (like shared columns and web services), but I'll have to play with that on my own. The Designer session was good too, in that I'll be doing a webcast the end of March on new Notes/Domino 7.0 development features. That information will help me plan out my talk. I went to a couple of other sessions on integrating WAS/WP/Workplace with Domino, as well as getting more out of the Domino objects. Not as much practical stuff there as I'd have hoped, but interesting at a conceptual level.
From there, it was down to the showfloor to wander the booths and meet up with people. I must be getting old, in that I don't have the drive any more to try and come home with one of every giveaway the vendors are handing out. Oh, well. I did meet up with a lot of old friends, talked/ate/drank the provided refreshments, and proceeded to blow out the rest of my voice. I was hoping I was getting over this bug, but it's still not done with me yet.
The most entertaining part of the day was getting an invite to the Penumbra suite where there were more people to meet and talk with. I spent quite a bit of time talking with Ben Langhinrichs, and that's always fascinating. I've never seen someone so excited and enthused about what he does. I was going to call it a night around 10:15 or so, but Joe decided to invite "a few" people back over to the "Duffbert suite" for drinks. That "few" ended up being about 13, and I think we hit the sack around 1:15. grooooan...
So... a fun time was had by all, many good things were learned, but the body is less than enthused with me this morning...
General session and a day's worth of sessions... *THIS* is the 'sphere.
The general session was great. Goyal came out swinging at Microsoft, sales figures were announced that showed double-digit growth in a "stagnate, mature" industy, John Cleese was the guest speaker (very funny), and the ability to run Notes in the Workplace rich client will come in 7.0, not 8.0. All good stuff.
From there it was on to sessions for what's new in the Notes 7.0 client and what's new in the Domino Designer 7.0. As usual, there are plenty of things I'd like to use in the new designer (like shared columns and web services), but I'll have to play with that on my own. The Designer session was good too, in that I'll be doing a webcast the end of March on new Notes/Domino 7.0 development features. That information will help me plan out my talk. I went to a couple of other sessions on integrating WAS/WP/Workplace with Domino, as well as getting more out of the Domino objects. Not as much practical stuff there as I'd have hoped, but interesting at a conceptual level.
From there, it was down to the showfloor to wander the booths and meet up with people. I must be getting old, in that I don't have the drive any more to try and come home with one of every giveaway the vendors are handing out. Oh, well. I did meet up with a lot of old friends, talked/ate/drank the provided refreshments, and proceeded to blow out the rest of my voice. I was hoping I was getting over this bug, but it's still not done with me yet.
The most entertaining part of the day was getting an invite to the Penumbra suite where there were more people to meet and talk with. I spent quite a bit of time talking with Ben Langhinrichs, and that's always fascinating. I've never seen someone so excited and enthused about what he does. I was going to call it a night around 10:15 or so, but Joe decided to invite "a few" people back over to the "Duffbert suite" for drinks. That "few" ended up being about 13, and I think we hit the sack around 1:15. grooooan...
So... a fun time was had by all, many good things were learned, but the body is less than enthused with me this morning...
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