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- "Hannover" at Admin2006 and DNUG
- TheView's Admin2006 is a littleover a month away, and I'm way behind in getting my presentation done. The session is called, "Lotus Notes 'Hannover' -- What It MeansTo You". Given the weight of the topic, there's a need for theright focus make sure the...
- Tags: Admin2006, IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- New York Times: I.M. Generation Is Changing the Way Business Talks
- As I've been saying, voicemail is dead. Sun's Tim Bray even says internal e-mail is dead (I don't agree atall -- not in a global company where people are asychronously available...doesTim not sleep?). Still, instant messaging is taking over.Nowa generation of office workers who...
- Tags: I.M.
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- eWeek Biz Bytes: The Absurd Crackdown on Free Internet Services
- Dan Briody comments on an article in theWall Street Journal discussing companies which ban public communicationservices:I'm not going to argue that these technologiesare often used for personal reasons. They are. But so are phones, and e-mail,and water coolers, and bathrooms. And they do come in...
- Tags: Free Internet Service, Absurd
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Sametime 7.5: Screen sharing plug-in
- Once again, my colleague Paul Culpepperassists on demonstrating a cool Sametime 7.5 feature. Here, withoutthe need to launch a full e-meeting, Paul does some screen sharing withme.. ----------------------------------------------------and if I want to continue by sharing something with Paul, I can:---------------------------------------------------------------------------and I can even give...
- Tags: Groupware, Web conferencing, plug-in, Paul, SameTime 7.5, IBM Lotus SameTime
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Availablogging
- Last week, when once of my customer meetingsfor this trip fell through, I bloggedabout having a free day in Europein an effort to maximize this trip. Now as I rush back home, I thinkthis "availablogging" was a good idea and something I need todo...
- Tags: IBMers
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Ferris Research: Exchange Reliability and Its Impact on Organizations
- Disclaimer -- I haven't read the reportI'm linking to here, yet...but from the contents and quotes posted on Ferris'swebsite, it sounds like a good one:"Exchange administrators feel burdenedby the daily and weekly tasks required to build and maintain a highly reliableExchange solution. Better tools will...
- Tags: Ferris Research, Exchange
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Congratulations and welcome, Steve Castledine
- Congratulations and welcome to SteveCastledine, the newest member of the Lotus development organisation! I've known Steve for the last three years, ever since he launchedhis Dominoblogtemplate, which I've used for edbrill.com since Steve first shipped. He'sa passionate and skilled developer, and I'm pleased to...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Lotus Sametime 7.5 preview flash demo now available
- A flash demo showing the new features andcapabilities of LotusSametime 7.5 is now available on ibm.com. All the details regarding this about-to-go-to-first-beta major releaseare here. Via Bruce Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on April 3,...
- Tags: Lotus SameTime 7.5
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Laurette Rynne: Outlook vs. Notes user guide
- Cananyone help Laurette?Thisis a shout-out to anyone who knows Notes 6.5 and Outlook 2003 well, orhas worked on a conversion either way. I am looking for a user quick referenceguide or even some rough points on the differences from a user perspectivebetween the two mail...
- Tags: Laurette Rynne
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- The absolute last word on Microsoft Application Analyzer for Lotus Domino 2006
- For ten weeks now, we've covered the sagaof the new Microsoft Application Analyzer for Lotus Notes Domino 2006. People like PaulMooney and DavidDeWell have dissected thetool's logic and found that it does very little in terms of analyzing Notesapps...and is subjectto manipulation. Lastweek, we...
- Tags: Microsoft Application Analyzer, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- Bad hair day? Who cares...
- Talk about an eye-opening customer meeting...This morning, friends from T-SystemsSchweiz retreived me fromZürich airport for a couple of customer meetings. Normally, I don'tmention customers I meet with by name, but this one seems quite up forthe fame. It was with a company called...
- Tags: Bad Hair Day, Triumph
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- Document locking
- In one of my customer meetings this week,the subject of document locking came up. The customer had some questionsabout how this feature might benefit them in a particular application. To be honest, I had to pause a second. Document locking wasa new feature...
- Tags: Document Locking
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- Washingtonpost.com: IBM Makes A Play for Microsoft´s Customers
- Interesting to see this is in the mainstreammedia even before the press release is posted on ibm.com...InternationalBusiness Machines Corp. said it will roll out an aggressive strategy todayto lure business customers away from rival Microsoft Corp., offering bountiesof up to $20,000 to sales partners who...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-30
- New interview on ibm.com/lotus: "Customers content and creative�
- I did an interview with the lotus.com teamrecently, which is now posted. Some of the content admittedly soundsa little "fluffy", but there's some good stuff in there, too...ButBrill finds the developer community is closing ranks behind the IBM/Lotusvision, which is the reason Microsoft is...
- Tags: Brill, IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Staying within policy
- I met with a group of Lotus customers yesterdayin Kansas City. One surprise to me was the answer to one of my usualquestions -- how many of you are using policies to manage your Domino environment? The answer -- none. Policesin Notes/Domino 6.x were...
- Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Enterprise software, Kathleen McGivney
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- lekkimworld: Is the lack of Java skills in the Notes/Domino developer community the Achilles´ heel of IBM?
- Mikkel Heisterberg totally gets it in termsof where Notes is going and some of the opportunities, and challenges,of Notes in the "Hannover" release emphasis mine:Thoughsupported it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to build the kindsof composite, networked applications that will be possible with...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- New Plazes beta
- I've been beta testing a new version ofthe Plazeslauncher (now called "Plazer"). The Plazes team grantedpermission to blog about the beta over the weekend, so here we are.I have been a fan of Plazes since discoveringit six months ago. Withthe diversity and quantity...
- Tags: Plazes
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- eWeek: IBM Collaboration Tech Helps WBC Play Ball (updated)
- (Updated: Correct list of IBM Workplacesoftware now identified. Thanks, Shawn...)How the US's Major League Baseball isusing IBM Workplace software (including Workplace Web Content Management,Workplace Forms and Workplace Services Express) to deploy time-sensitiveprojects quickly...Using IBM software that included itsWorkplace collaboration applications for enterprise content management,document...
- Tags: workplace, Workplace Web Content Management, Boland, IBM Collaboration Tech, IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- Needed in Europe next Wednesday?
- Next week, I'm in Zürich on Thursday fora customer briefing. It's a quick trip, and my plan all along hasbeen to leave Chicago on Tuesday night and return on Friday. Originally,though, I had another customer meeting scheduled on Wednesday....whichhas just fallen through. So...
- Tags: Zürich Wednesday
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- Forbes: Microsoft Vista: Not "People Ready"
- Forbes' Daniel Lyons was at the Microsoft"People Ready" event in New York last week. He has a veryinteresting take.... No one mentioned the fact that in1997, Microsoft held a similar event in New York City to declare that IBM's"big iron" was dead, because Windows...
- Tags: People Ready, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
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