Ed Brill (blog | twitter) - is Director, Product Management, IBM Lotus software. Ed’s focus is on growing and continuing IBM's success in messaging and collaboration software, through working with customers, business partners, and IBM sales, marketing, and product development organizations. Ed's responsibilities in this role have included the market launches of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 and 8.5.1, the introduction of Alloy, the release of Lotus Symphony 1.3, and plans/development for LotusLive Notes, an IBM cloud offering for messaging and collaboration. A frequent speaker at IBM and industry events worldwide, Ed is well known for direct contributions to the many Lotus software-focused social media and virtual communities. Tom Duff (blog | twitter) - is a software developer focusing on Lotus collaboration technologies in Portland Oregon. He started working with Lotus Notes in 1996 in version R3 and has written and maintained hundreds of applications in large enterprises through the years. He also holds Lotus principal development certifications starting at version 4 and going up to version 8, as well as Microsoft and Java certifications. Tom is a prolific writer, both in various industry publications and at his website, Duffbert’s Random Musings, at http://www.duffbert.com. He also is a frequent speaker at conferences and events focusing on Lotus technologies.
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Why did IBM feel that putting Domino/Notes into the cloud was important?
Notes is now part of the overall LotusLive suite. Is that just branding, or is there real integration there?
Ed said in his post “Today's announcement marks the clear establishment of LotusLive as the leader in cloud collaboration.” That’s a pretty bold statement to make, suggesting you feel very sure that the announcement takes Lotus beyond the capabilities that Microsoft and Google offer - is that the case?
There has been a lot of talk of ‘hybrid’ SaaS and on-premise platforms for collaboration (‘click to cloud’ etc.). Obviously a lot of target customers for LotusLive Notes will already have Domino infrastructure, how will go about shifting from on-premise to cloud, or even maintain a hybrid solution?
What about apps?
Is customisation allowed?
What will Lotus be doing to make both owning and managing hybrid infrastructures easier?
Instant Messaging - dedicated or shared?
What are the costs? How does a customer buy it?
Opening out:
Apart from Ed, we are Lotus business partners that have customers with on-premise environments, or work in customer on-premise environments
What does this offering add to the options that customers already have? Can we see it being a popular offering?
Will it help in fending off Microsoft and Google?
What does this mean for partners?
Lotus 8.5.2 announced
Announced on Tuesday, eGA scheduled for August 24th
What’s new? What will be the most popular new features?
Darren: TNT Screen Capture for Windows - Produce very nice screenshots and call-outs. It is what I use for the blog. Tom: I’ve started to play with a new text replacement utility (for Windows) called PhaseExpress. Enables me to create text replacement macros as well as nice chunks of pre-defined text templates to use. Liking it a lot... and it’s free for personal use. Ed: Flipbook for iPad, great new paradigm tool for ipad. Stuart: Reeder - the best RSS feed reader for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad $4.99 download, syncs with Google Reader, and hence with NetNewsWire etc. Awesome.
No TWiL this week, but... a special bonus instead!
Mon, Jan 30th 2012 8:40a This Week in Lotus Due to post-Lotusphere exhaustion, zombie flu and backed-up workloads, there is unfortunately no This Week in Lotus this week (the first non-Holidays show we've missed!). However we do have: 1) an excellent show lined up for next week featuring a number of IBM product managers 2) video of our live show from Lotusphere 2012 So, sorry to have missed a week, but enjoy the conversation and appreciate the tiredness of these seven 'Thursday at Lotusphere' panellists! See you all next [read] Keywords: ibm
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This Week in Lotus 086 - Live from Lotusphere 2012
Wed, Jan 25th 2012 3:24a This Week in Lotus Episode 86, recorded on Thursday 19th January 2012. With a live audience and an esteemed panel including Curious Mitch Cohen, Guiseppe Grasso, Femke Goedhart, Colleen Burns and Wes Morgan, we discuss the conference, the highlights, the OGS, the wifi, the community and even Darren's state of dress!
Download links - MP3 | OGG [Once again, Darren and I recorded a live TWiL from the hallowed rooms of WDW Dolphin during Lotusphere. This year we were not lucky enough to have bee [read] Keywords: lotus
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This Week in Lotus 085 - Lotusphere opening night
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 4:22p This Week in Lotus Episode 85, recorded on Friday 13th January 2012. With plans for an organised TWiL disappearing in a series of transport delays, Stuart heads around the Dolphin lobby and bar asking what are people expecting from Lotusphere 2012?
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Hosts: Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company) Guests: Many and varied, including Sharon Bellamy, Lisa Duke, Tim Clark, Theo Hesselmans, Sandra Buhler and more... To [read] Keywords: lotus
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A reminder - This Week in Lotus Live! from Lotusphere 2012 - Thursday, 8:15-9:45 in Europe 6!
Sat, Jan 14th 2012 2:14a This Week in Lotus As announced on This Week in Lotus 084, Darren and Stuart will be back for another live TWiL show at Lotusphere 2012! Thanks to the gracious assistance of the organisation team, we will be hosting a live panel discussion with studio audience on Thursday morning at 8:15-9:45am in Dolphin Europe 6. We think this is a perfect spot as we can review the conference in detail and this fits in just before the final-day events over at the Swan (Gurupalooza, Ask the PMs, Ask the Developers). We [read] Keywords: lotus
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Don’t miss it! This Week in Lotus - Live from Lotusphere 2012
Fri, Jan 6th 2012 1:23a This Week in Lotus As announced on This Week in Lotus 084, Darren and Stuart will be back for another live TWiL show at Lotusphere 2012! Thanks to the gracious assistance of the organisation team, we will be hosting a live panel discussion with studio audience on Thursday morning at 8:00-9:45am in one of the Dolphin Europe rooms (exact location to be confirmed). I think this is a perfect spot as we can review the conference in detail and this fits in just before the final-day events over at the Swan (Gurupalo [read] Keywords: lotus
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