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Staying ahead of the pack

Published September 22, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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Selling for Lotus software means there are some 20-30 products under my responsibility, not to mention the numerous versions available for each product. In the software business there are always new versions in the works (beta), old versions become, well, older, and some are no longer supported. Keeping track of new versions (general availability), as well as end of market (EOM) and end of service (EOS) can be quite difficult.

Luckily, ibm.com comes to the rescue, with yet another RSS feed available for the public.
In fact, ibm.com is sporting a lot of web 2.0 capabilities for several years now, with RSS making its debate some 4 years ago (back in the days when I was webmaster of ibm.com/il).

IBM Software Support Lifecycle website provides an excellent view and detailed information about the availabilities of IBM software, and with the XML version there’s no need to access the site. Just pick the number of days worth of updates, type of information and your preferred RSS reader. We’ll will do the rest.

Link: IBM Software Support Lifecycle

Best pracetices track at Lotusphere 2009

Published September 22, 2008 Uncategorized Closed
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As you know already, Lotusphere 2009 is already underway, scheduled for January 18-22, 2009. My colleague Mac Guidera is the manager of the Best Practices track, and is taking a very social approach towards gathering ideas. Basically, the Best Practices track has grown over the years to become one of the most popular at Lotusphere because it cover topics and has content that is relevant to you.

If you’re a customer or a BP interested in presenting at LS09, Mac has the full 411 on how to accomplish that.

Links:
Lotusphere 2009
LS09 – Call for abstracts
LS09 – Tracks and sessions
Mac Guidera – Best Practices track
IdeaJam – LS09 Best Practices

How connected are you?

Published September 20, 2008 Uncategorized Closed
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Since there are SO many social networks and microblogging platforms out there, it’s only rational that services would start to pop up, measuring just how connected are you.
Sort of an ego boost I suppose.

This last one, Twitter Grading, I spotted over at Stuart McIntyre, a colleague.
Basically, twitter.grader.com measures the relative power of a Twitter user. It is calculated as a percentile score. A grade of 79 means that the user scores higher than 79 percent of the other user profiles that have been graded. Your grade is calculated using a combination of factors including:
* The number of followers you have
* The power of this network of followers
* The pace of your updates
* The completeness of your profile
* …a few others.

So, here’s my Twitter Grading:
Grade of 79, Rank of 6,092 out of 30,512.

Updated list from Stuart’s post:
@belgort 85%
@edbrill 92%
@vowe 88%
@alanlepo 86%
@idonotes 90%
@stuartmcintyre 80%
@dvirreznik 79%

Lotus iNotes on iPhone

Published September 19, 2008 Uncategorized Closed
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You asked for it, and it’s (finally) here:
Lotus Notes support for the iPhone.
And it’s not just us (aka IBM) saying so, Apple are also in the picture.
Update:
Got some responses from readers over the weekend, so, just to clarify:
I’m not talking about full Lotus Notes client on your iPhone (like a pre-installed software), but rather a web access (through a browser) to your inbox/calendar/contacts (Domino Web Access, version 8.0.2).

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino – the SaaS version

Published September 19, 2008 Uncategorized 2 Comments
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It’s coming, soon. Lotus GM, Bob Picciano, announced earlier this week that a hosted version of Lotus Notes will be available, for $8-$18 per user, per month. I’ll elaborate more when possible.

Such an offering would make IBM’s traditionally on-premise collaboration applications, such as Lotus Sametime instant messaging and VOIP, a threat to Microsoft Exchange Online, not to mention a number of small, independent SAAS collaboration providers that want to cater to large customer bases.

and, IBM’s differentiation play (according to eWeek, not me):

Also, because there are hundreds of SAAS collaboration plays out there, I expect IBM to integrate Lotus Connections with the hosted version of Notes, along with 3-D collaboration capabilities, such as having co-workers trigger chats between their avatars.

Interesting…

Link: IBM to offer SaaS version of Lotus Notes – eWeek

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