Great observation from the IT-Director.com blog site...
Category Lotusphere2007
From the blog of Roger Whitehead over there...
Microsoft normally announces something about now to try to attract wavering punters to its products. The Lotus faithful treat these 'spoilers' with contempt, their blog sites typically showing the infeasibility or unattractiveness of the latest Redmond offering or, now and again, scornfully pointing out its rapid withdrawal. It all makes for Wimbledon-like fun for the unaligned observer.
Ah, yes... last year was *so* much fun! I was curious as to whether Microsoft would learn from last year's fiasco with Red Bull. They either 1) don't have anything to deflect attention this time around (I doubt that), or 2) they decided to wait to announce stuff *during* Lotusphere so that the "Lotus faithful" don't have the time nor attention to dig into it. I noticed that Microsoft's "Notes Compete" group posted something to their blog yesterday along the lines of "we're still here, we're still building cool conversion tools, and we're getting stuff ready for you." That leads me to believe that option 2 is the battle plan for 2007.
Proposal for the "Lotus faithful"... There's been the stray suggestion occasionally that it would be interesting to get a roomful of Notes geeks and let them code jam for an hour to see what they come up with. I would propose that if Red Bull 2 (3? what are we up to now?) makes its appearance next week, that we create our own unofficial BOF session and run it through the spin cycle.
Wouldn't *that* make for great closing session quote material? :)
From the blog of Roger Whitehead over there...
Microsoft normally announces something about now to try to attract wavering punters to its products. The Lotus faithful treat these 'spoilers' with contempt, their blog sites typically showing the infeasibility or unattractiveness of the latest Redmond offering or, now and again, scornfully pointing out its rapid withdrawal. It all makes for Wimbledon-like fun for the unaligned observer.
Ah, yes... last year was *so* much fun! I was curious as to whether Microsoft would learn from last year's fiasco with Red Bull. They either 1) don't have anything to deflect attention this time around (I doubt that), or 2) they decided to wait to announce stuff *during* Lotusphere so that the "Lotus faithful" don't have the time nor attention to dig into it. I noticed that Microsoft's "Notes Compete" group posted something to their blog yesterday along the lines of "we're still here, we're still building cool conversion tools, and we're getting stuff ready for you." That leads me to believe that option 2 is the battle plan for 2007.
Proposal for the "Lotus faithful"... There's been the stray suggestion occasionally that it would be interesting to get a roomful of Notes geeks and let them code jam for an hour to see what they come up with. I would propose that if Red Bull 2 (3? what are we up to now?) makes its appearance next week, that we create our own unofficial BOF session and run it through the spin cycle.
Wouldn't *that* make for great closing session quote material? :)
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Now that would be fun. Sign me up...
Posted by Rob McDonagh At 06:21:13 On 18/01/2007 | - Website - |
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Posted by Matt White At 07:08:51 On 18/01/2007 | - Website - |