Live blogging from the Lotusphere opening session
January 23 2006
I'll be occasionally blogging live on this
thread and others from the Lotusphere 2006 opening session. If you're
here, feel free to add your thoughts on this post!
Notes licenses are up --
- 125 million licenses sold
- 71,000+ downloads of Notes/Domino 7
- Double-digit growth
Guest speaker: Jason Alexander
Ken Bisconti:
- Over 61,000 Notes customers
- Over 200 launch events around the world, touching over 21,000 customers
- "The best release of Notes in Notes history" -- being implemented fater than any Notes release in history
- Notes 7 support for Mac announced (coming in 7.0.2) along with Domino Web Access for Mac (on Firefox)
- Mac/Intel will be supported later this year
- Compares three major releases of Notes/Domino vs. more than three years between Exchange releases, with next release requiring all new hardware and ISV applications on 64-bit architecture/hardware
- "Wanda" -- allows users to carry and run their Notes installation on a USB memory stick
- Expanded Notes and SAP integration into workflows... planned to deliver in mid-2006
- Ron Sebastian just demonstrated Sametime on a RIM Blackberry along with Notes application workflow
Mike Rhodin -- Announcing connectivity for Lotus Sametime with AOL, Yahoo, and Google. Mike didn't mention this, but one key to this announcement is that the connectivity to these networks is without separate licensing costs
Craig Hayman -- Sametime 7.5 announced. Details and screen shots from this separate Sametime 7.5 entry
Workplace Forms -- Ron Sebastian has just demonstrated "pixel-perfect" Workplace Forms integration into both WebSphere Portal and Lotus Notes. Cool stuff.
Bowstreet Portlet Factory -- Ron is now demonstrating how easy it is to create WebSphere Portal portlets. Over 4000 WebSphere Portal customers, unchallenged market leadership.
Alistair Rennie -- Announces Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6 and Workplace Managed Client 2.6 shipping. The 2.6 release is the first release where the Workplace Managed Client is generally available -- as a part number on IBM Passport Advantage.
Ron Sebastian -- Showing Workplace Collaboration Services, including a new blog template component.
Workplace Managed Client 2.6 -- Runs IBM Productivity Editors stand-alone. Supports common file formats but also all the ODF (Open Document Format) files formats.
Alistair -- Over 1 million Domino Designer developers.
Maureen Leland is showing Workplace Designer updates....good show even though her demo errored out.
Craig Hayman came back and demonstrated updates to Activity Explorer and the Activities model. He highlighted the integration with Lotus Notes 7 as well as browser-based access to activities (supporting Firefox, his favourite browser, and IE, too).
Ken Bisconti -- Next version of Domino will continue existing Domino architecture but integrate WebSphere Portal capablities for further improved web application integration..
OK, so my battery is starting to run low, so I don't want to let this session end without a link to the updated screen shots for the next version of Lotus Notes, codenamed "Hannover"
What a great opening session! More coming from other sessions and events today!
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Hi.
More info about "Hannover" please.
I checked lotusphere.com and lotus.com and couldn't find any information on a webcast of the opening session. Is there one?
"George" is talking about the deconstruction of Hollywood and movie making. Very cool thoughts on this.
This is so cool - so, how many people are actually online in the opening session, and if there are lots, can you all work together to do a Mexican wave....
There is also a live blog of the opening session on my site.
There's no live webcast, but I believe there is a plan to webcast or podcast the OGS. I'll get some more info.
how cool! The customer that we (PSC) converted to Domino this year, Plymouth Tube, was the key customer story highlighted in the OGS!
Who's Jason Alexander?
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Seems to be famous for voiceovers in straight to DVD cartoon sequels and some 16yr old US sitcom I never watched as it was beyond the watershed for me at the time.
/I'm not that old after all.
// But I did see him in Pretty Woman
/// Suddenly I get very amused as I realise I'd heard of Lance Armstrong!
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I am live blogging and replicating away. Great content so far
125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 125,000,000 (that's more than 88 million I think :-)
@14 it all depends on your bias ;-)
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@16 not sure why it was necessary to redirect rather than post that comment here. No, no live webcast. It will be available in some form this week...
@17
redirecting was unnecessary; sorry for this ...
Ed,
On the Mac/Intel thing. That's proper, native Intel binaries, yes? Not some "certified with Rosetta" bodge?
Cheers,
- Mike
@19 Yes, proper binaries.
@19/20 - Kevin Cavanaugh just confirmed that for me. Planned timing for the Intel support is 7.0.2.
Ed -- Should I be insulted? You cut out just before my part :-)
Thanks a lot for the live blogging. It was a great service! The screen shots of the Hannover release look very good!
Hi
Some questions regarding Workplace Designer 2.6. Yesterday I downloaded IBM Workplace Designer 2.6 and seems that versions showed at Lotusphere 2006 is different (img: { Link } from version I downloaded. Why?
I don't know - perhaps Chris Reckling can jump in here and answer that. It is possible that a 3.0 prototype build is being shown at LS.
@22 Sandra has promised me a power drop for next year ;)
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Well Ulrich Krause did it long before IBM released even its first beta of the Tool.
In fact you can actually carry your Notes Client away with a USB stick and it does cost not more than 20 KB additional space. Right now it has to reside in the Notes directory but this will be changed so that you only have to insert the file anywhere on your USB Stick and double Click it.
Thats it. Works like a charm (on Windows PC's not tested on Mac) with V6.5 and V7.0