Want to get your hands on one of those Lotus Magic 8 balls or maybe an old Lotusphere bag? Over the past few days a number of Lotusphere related items have appeared on eBay all from different sellers.
A Nomadic Experience
While over at a relatives house for the
day yesterday I wanted to check my email so with my Lotus Nomad install
on the USB Key in my pocket I plugged it into their computer and within
a minute I had my full lotus Notes client up on screen. I checked my mail
and when I was finished I just unplugged the USB Key. The uninstall
routine kicked and the icon disappeared from the desktop.
Nomad works very well…
Redpaper : Domino 7 Server Consolidation
If your looking at reducing the number
of physical servers that you have for your Lotus Domino infrastructure
then this draft redpaper might be just what your looking for. It contains
a good overall view of how to go about starting a consolidation project,
the different approches that you can take and how to measure the success
of your project goals. There are also a number of step-by-step examples
of what to do during the consolidation project using different scenarios
that you might have within your own company.
"Since the introduction of Domino
7, IBM/Lotus has been highlighting the capabilities of Domino to now do
more with less – ultimately using Domino 7 more efficiently to better leverage
existing investment – and ulitmately reduce the Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO). For many companies however, the key issue remains about how and
where to begin with a consolidation effort. What are the best practices
and specific steps to get started with this effort. This Redpaper addresses
these questions. The overall goal of Domino consolidation is to provide
a better Return on Investment (ROI) for an business
Expanding the IBM Lotus Domino Community
Back in my last job I had the pleasure
of interviewing a number of people for both admin and development positions
and one of the questions I’d always ask is what websites they knew about
in relation to Lotus Notes. The answer, in nearly all cases, was notes.net
( or LDD or Developerworks or whatever it will be called next week ) and,
in most cases, this was the only answer that they had. If I prompted them
by asking if they read any of the Notes related blogs they would, nearly
always, say no.
And this isn’t restricted to job interviews.
When my wife is out doing consultancy gigs at different clients around
the country, nine times out of ten the client she is with will have never
read any of the blogs and wouldn’t know about all the developments that
are happening within the Lotus Notes community. Of course she always clues
them in ( hopefully by pointing to my blog first ) but there are a
lot more notes admins and developers out there then she would ever be able
to visit.
So it would seem that news of the Notes
community still isn’t getting out to everybody and the people who don’t
know about it are the ones who really should, the admins and developers
who work daily in both big and small corporations around the world. If
I had to answer the question as to why I think this is then I’d probably
say it’s because these people just think of what they do as a nine to five
job and no more.
With the inclusion of a blogging template
in the upcoming 7.0.2 release of Domino I feel that this is going to start
changing. Admins and developers who didn’t know much about blogging will
see the template, maybe create a new database with it to see what it does
and after that will check the web to see what else is out there. But this
shouldn’t be the only way that we should be hoping to expand the Lotus
Notes community. We should all update our blogrolls, link to the DominoBlogs
site to point people in the direction of more blogs and even IBM could
help by putting prominent links to some blogs on the notes.net site
Now if only IBM would add an RSS reader
template preloaded with a few choice domino related blogs to the next ‘Innovations
Pack’. Didn’t Steve Castledine have a DX Reader application that he was
working on at one stage, that would probably be the easiest choice…
Dec's Dom Blog 
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