Lotusphere 2007 Press Recap - A Few Stragglers
Category Lotusphere2007
(Gathered from my Google News alerts and other sources)
CRN: IBM Touts Unified Comms Infrastructure For Partner Development (Barb Darrow)
IBM partners were in Orlando last week to pledge their support for what they contend is a full platform--including Websphere, new social networking software, and Domino mail and collaboration software-- for building collaborative applications.
Amid the social networking buzz at Lotusphere, IBM Software also talked up a version of its latest portal software for smaller companies.
ComputerWorld: Users See Potential in Lotus Apps, but Rollouts May Wait (Todd R. Weiss)
At its Lotusphere 2007 conference last week, IBM detailed upcoming software tools designed to enable corporate users to collaborate more efficiently by better tying together different streams of internal information.
Users interviewed at the conference generally agreed that the promised additions to IBM’s Lotus product line could help improve their collaboration processes. But some said it might be a while before their organizations take advantage of the new tools.
Intranet Journal: Lotus Conference Ends on High Note (John Roling)
IBM Lotus concluded two straight years of double-digit growth with what executives called Lotus' best year ever. Lotus software reported a 30 percent total revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2006 while also shipping one million seats of the Sametime instant messaging and web conferencing product. The software growth brings IBM's current estimates to over 127 million Notes seats worldwide.
The momentum carried into IBM's annual Lotusphere conference last week in Orlando. Attendance was up 11 percent year-to-year with nearly 7,000 attendees. The number of Certified Lotus Professionals attending the conference was up 40 percent with nearly 1,900 total certified professionals making the annual pilgrimage.
This also marked the first foray into "virtual" conferences with Lotusphere launching in the online virtual world Second Life. Nearly 6,000 individuals attended the conference virtually, watching the opening general session, meeting Lotus experts, and chatting amongst themselves about the latest IBM Lotus announcements.
IT Jungle: Notes-Domino 8 Beta On Deck, Mid-Year GA Still on Schedule (Dan Burger)
As IBM Lotus prepares to introduce a public beta program for Notes/Domino 8 leading up to the product's ship date in mid-2007, Big Blue continues to emphasize the theme of open standards as its primary anti-Microsoft message. Collaboration, particularly as it applies to linking with applications that go beyond basic e-mail, continues to play an expanding role, as social networking tools are introduced to the workplace as an integral part of project management and the bridging of information silos.
The public beta program for Notes/Domino 8, the final beta phase, will launch in February. N/D 8 has been in what IBM calls "managed beta" since November 2006.
In its on-going battle with Microsoft Exchange, IBM is touting the open standards approach to Lotus Notes 8 and knifing Microsoft for its licensing strategy, which you could say is going for the soft underbelly of the beast. It's true that Notes 8 features productivity editors that support the Open Document Format (ODF) and therefore users have access to office tools without incurring the costs of separate license. And it's also true that Notes 8 allows users to import and export supported file formats used by Microsoft Office and Open Office file formats, edit those files, and save them in either the original format or as ODF documents.
The Notes 8 client can run on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Linux. The Domino 8 server runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, System i, System p, System z, and Sun Solaris.
(Gathered from my Google News alerts and other sources)
CRN: IBM Touts Unified Comms Infrastructure For Partner Development (Barb Darrow)
IBM partners were in Orlando last week to pledge their support for what they contend is a full platform--including Websphere, new social networking software, and Domino mail and collaboration software-- for building collaborative applications.
Amid the social networking buzz at Lotusphere, IBM Software also talked up a version of its latest portal software for smaller companies.
ComputerWorld: Users See Potential in Lotus Apps, but Rollouts May Wait (Todd R. Weiss)
At its Lotusphere 2007 conference last week, IBM detailed upcoming software tools designed to enable corporate users to collaborate more efficiently by better tying together different streams of internal information.
Users interviewed at the conference generally agreed that the promised additions to IBM’s Lotus product line could help improve their collaboration processes. But some said it might be a while before their organizations take advantage of the new tools.
Intranet Journal: Lotus Conference Ends on High Note (John Roling)
IBM Lotus concluded two straight years of double-digit growth with what executives called Lotus' best year ever. Lotus software reported a 30 percent total revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2006 while also shipping one million seats of the Sametime instant messaging and web conferencing product. The software growth brings IBM's current estimates to over 127 million Notes seats worldwide.
The momentum carried into IBM's annual Lotusphere conference last week in Orlando. Attendance was up 11 percent year-to-year with nearly 7,000 attendees. The number of Certified Lotus Professionals attending the conference was up 40 percent with nearly 1,900 total certified professionals making the annual pilgrimage.
This also marked the first foray into "virtual" conferences with Lotusphere launching in the online virtual world Second Life. Nearly 6,000 individuals attended the conference virtually, watching the opening general session, meeting Lotus experts, and chatting amongst themselves about the latest IBM Lotus announcements.
IT Jungle: Notes-Domino 8 Beta On Deck, Mid-Year GA Still on Schedule (Dan Burger)
As IBM Lotus prepares to introduce a public beta program for Notes/Domino 8 leading up to the product's ship date in mid-2007, Big Blue continues to emphasize the theme of open standards as its primary anti-Microsoft message. Collaboration, particularly as it applies to linking with applications that go beyond basic e-mail, continues to play an expanding role, as social networking tools are introduced to the workplace as an integral part of project management and the bridging of information silos.
The public beta program for Notes/Domino 8, the final beta phase, will launch in February. N/D 8 has been in what IBM calls "managed beta" since November 2006.
In its on-going battle with Microsoft Exchange, IBM is touting the open standards approach to Lotus Notes 8 and knifing Microsoft for its licensing strategy, which you could say is going for the soft underbelly of the beast. It's true that Notes 8 features productivity editors that support the Open Document Format (ODF) and therefore users have access to office tools without incurring the costs of separate license. And it's also true that Notes 8 allows users to import and export supported file formats used by Microsoft Office and Open Office file formats, edit those files, and save them in either the original format or as ODF documents.
The Notes 8 client can run on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Linux. The Domino 8 server runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, System i, System p, System z, and Sun Solaris.
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