Lotusphere Comes to Lisbon

March 22 2007

Add Lisbon to the list of better than expected attendance for Lotusphere Comes to You.  Here, the event is a full day agenda covering just about every component of the Lotus strategy.  Partners have been presenting their plans for products like Connections and Quickr.  And the attendees have been craning to take another look at the keynote slides...

Lotusphere Comes to You Portugal 2007

Flying in this morning was great.  Lisbon's airport is smack in the middle of the city, so you fly over a fairly densely populated area.  On a perfect sunny day like this, the view was fantastic.

I'm hanging around the LCTY event the rest of the day, then tomorrow we have a bunch of customer and partner meetings.  Looking forward to hopefully getting an hour or two to check out town as well.

Ed Brill | Lisboa, Portugal Category:  Lotusphere2007  Add/View Comments [22]

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  1. 1  Gerco Wolfswinkel http://www.domino-weblog.nl | 3/22/2007 11:25:04 AM

    I was in Lisbon once for work, and I loved it. Great place! If you ever have a chance go to the restaurant Senhor Vinho. They have some of the best fado performances, and the food is very good.

  1. 2  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 3/22/2007 12:14:54 PM

    Ed, I still have the opening keynote video from Lotusphere in Orlando shared. { Link } I don't know if it's also still available from IBM, but I remember it being a pain to download which is why I went this route.

    Both my trips to Lisbon were for transatlantic cruises that departed from there. Both were also on sailing ships, and it was pretty cool to sail past the Monument to the Discoverers and the Tower of Belem.

  1. 3  Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com | 3/22/2007 1:27:53 PM

    Clothing inspiration from the teletubbies? { Link }

    My intelligent chip into the conversation! ;)

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 3/22/2007 2:04:51 PM

    @2 Charles, my comment about customers being interested in the keynote presentation stems from the amount of attention the screens on these two ladies received. At least I assume that's what was going on.

  1. 5  Keith Brooks http://www.keithbrooks.com | 3/22/2007 2:17:37 PM

    Just got back from the Lotusphere comes to Miami.

    Great morning, saw something I was unfamiliar with, Lotus Forms.

    Very interesting, but it runs on a stand alone server? Not Domino or Websphere?

    How I missed this product is beyond me.

    Very cool, especially when used with portal server.

    Nice job to the IBMers and Perficient for running it.

  1. 6  Karen Demerly  | 3/22/2007 2:34:15 PM

    So the cute guys with the strap-on videos placed just above their knees must've been just out of range of this shot, huh?

  1. 7  Mike Burford http://www.hamakor.co.nz | 3/22/2007 3:01:29 PM

    @6 - Go Karen! :o)

  1. 8  Craig Wiseman  | 3/22/2007 3:48:58 PM

    Hmmm. That picture had no effect on Charles....

    <grin>

  1. 9  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 3/22/2007 5:06:11 PM

    @8 - I noticed the LCD's, I just didn't catch that they were showing the keynote slides. Had I recognized that I would probably have figured out the rest. ;-)

  1. 10  mike  | 3/22/2007 5:46:21 PM

    A wonderful set of .. lungs.. on the girl on the right. Damn

  1. 11  Vitor Pereira  | 3/22/2007 6:03:36 PM

    Karen, the were no cute guys with strap-on videos. ;-)

  1. 12  Patrick M  | 3/23/2007 3:55:28 AM

    LCDs? What LCDs? Can't see them to save my life. :)

  1. 13  Budi Febrianto http://www.indomino.net/blog | 3/23/2007 4:44:46 AM

    @Keith,

    I also interested about Forms and that one of the reasons I joined track 1 in Lotusphers comes to Jakarta { Link } but they only talked about less than 10 minutes.

    Look like stand alone program but than later can be upload it to the server (what server?)

  1. 14  Pedro Quaresma  | 3/23/2007 5:08:34 AM

    Ed, I'm very happy that you made it to Portugal! Also happy to know that the attendance on this Lisbon LCTY was better than expected.

    When I left Portugal last year, I had a strong impression that Microsoft was clearly winning the "battle" vs IBM/Lotus. Hopefully that is no longer the case.

  1. 15  Simon Scullion http://simonscullion.com/ | 3/23/2007 5:47:22 AM

    It appears the event in Madrid was dull in comparison. Certainly no LCD screens! We did get a pretty awful bag though, for filling in the feedback form! Shame its not fit to be used in public, and the Lotus logo is so small its almost an apology.

    Still, don't want that to detract from the generally good content that was presented, though would have loved to have seen a demo of Quickr and Connections.

  1. 16  Vitor Pereira http://www.vitor-pereira.com | 3/23/2007 5:50:32 AM

    There was even a discussion going on about the LCDs being TouchScreens ;-)

  1. 17  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 3/23/2007 6:22:30 AM

    @15 I did demonstrate Connections in lisbon yesterday. We are using something called the Lotus Greenhouse for live demos of Connections and Quickr.

  1. 18  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 3/23/2007 10:04:36 AM

    @Keith/Budhi - I think you're looking for Workplace Forms: { Link } There was a really old product called Lotus Forms, but it was dropped quite some time ago.

  1. 19  Simon Scullion http://simonscullion.com/ | 3/23/2007 10:13:36 AM

    @17 Ed, in Madrid we were given an overview of what social software was all about, followed by an introduction to Quickr and Connections. Unfortunately for me, all high-level slideware, no demo :-(

    We did get to see a quick demo of Notes 8, which I was obviously looking forward to, though to be honest I was disappointed to not come away with anything new at all on Quickr or Connections. Clearly, following the blogs is the quickest and easiest way to stay up to speed! :-)

    I'm actually waiting to hear back regarding getting access to the Lotus Greenhouse.

  1. 20  Rob Novak http://www.LotusRockStar.com | 3/23/2007 1:10:38 PM

    @Keith/Budhi: Charles is right, it's Workplace Forms (though don't etch the name in metal). WPF is a combination of a server, viewer for high-fidelity pixel-level form presentation, six types of signature security, an eclipse-based forms designer product, and an option (without pixel perfection) to deploy forms for browser-only use. Forms are encapsulated in XML using the XForms standard (optional) and can even be mailed around, making workflow pretty flexible. WPF is the blue-washing and eventual evolution of the 2005 (I think) acquisition of PureEdge by IBM. Big customers like government and insurance. So to recap:

    Workplace Forms Server (based on WAS)

    Workplace Forms Designer (Eclipse-based design tool)

    Workplace Forms Viewer (richer experience, pixel perfection)

    Hope this helps. Of course the site Charles points to is much more official...!

  1. 21  Keith Brooks http://www.keithbrooks.com | 3/23/2007 3:23:00 PM

    Thanks Rob and Charles. Haven't had the time to delve into it yet, just completed my bedroom closet renovation today.

    So it's a "new/old" product via purchase of the original company.

    So it has champions and BPs in place then, interesting.

    Looks/sounds good.

    Now, could the Lisbon girls LCDs been interactive with forms that would have been an impressive feature.