Lotusphere Rollcall

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Happy New Year.

 

Well now that it’s January it means that countdown to Lotusphere is well under way.  The sessions have all been organised, the OpenNTF team are up against the Product Showcase reception in terms of getting numbers to attend their BOF ( whoever allowed these to clash should be taken out back and shot ) ,the CULT t-shirt is nearly ready ( I better get one of these ) and I just received an invite to a ‘special’ dinner for UK and Ireland on the Tuesday night.

 

In th next few weeks I’ll be heading to Tokyo then back to Ireland for a few days then off to Orlando.  Plenty of Air Miles on the One World program for me   I’m looking forward to Lotusphere this year, I’ve only ever been to the European one once before so it will be a great experience.

 

If your going then leave a comment below so that I can see who else will be there.  I have to make sure that I meet up for plenty of BEvERageS.

 

Oh, and watch out for me wearing a ‘BlogSphere’ t-shirt.  I’ve gotten a few made up especially for the trip…

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Steve Castledine’s Website

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If you have just been reading the excellent DominoPower article on Blogging by Tom Duff then you might have noticed a small typo that said Steve Castledine’s personal blog was hosted here….

Well the editors made a little mistake and put in the wrong URL.

You can access Steve’s website  here.

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London Calling

Next week ( Tuesday 11th – Friday 14th ) find me slap bang in the center of London’s business district. I’m over to assist in the setup and migration of our London branch.

So if any London bloggers fancy a few pints then give me a shout at my e-mail address and we can arrange a time to meet up.

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The Future Is WorkPlace…

Well the WorkPlace seminar seemed to go fairly well. There was a good turnout from most of the big notes houses here in Ireland and the presentations were full of interesting little facts…

The main point that the speakers were really pushing was to do with the fact that the Lotus Notes client that we know and love today will still be around in the coming years but will have added capibilities such as the optional DB2 backend and that the IBM are trying to merge all their Lotus products into a single strand that will all have the WorkPlace title. So even if you are a 100% notes house, this time two years you will be running Lotus WorkPlace.

Another interesting fact is how IBM are trying to break up all the different products ( not just lotus products ) into their different components and then re-engineer them into the WorkPlace product so that you can just ‘turn them on’ as you require the functions once you purchase the license, and that it’s possible that if you only need a feature for a few months then you only have to pay the license for a few months.

We also had a short talk from one of the Lotus Ireland staff members. Lotus Ireland is where that main development for the Lotus WorkPlace is taking place and the speaker mentioned a product under development called ‘WorkPlace Designer’ which will become a RAD tool for Lotus WorkPlace. This will be based around the Eclipse project as will be the WorkPlace rich cient.

All Lotus products starting with 6.5.1 (Q1 2004) will be fully integration tested with each other and released all at the same time. This means an end to the mixed environments that we nearly all run today to keep SameTime, QuickPlace and other domino based applications up and running in a single domain. The next releases of software will all have their version numbers aligned to 6.5.1

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