Opening General Session - 2010
Ah, it must be Lotusphere. My alarm
went off at 8am, concurrent with the start of the Opening General Session!
Special guest: Unbelievable.... it's the Shat at last!
Click through for more stream of consciousness. No comments allowed until I'm done...
Special guest: Unbelievable.... it's the Shat at last!
Click through for more stream of consciousness. No comments allowed until I'm done...
Bob Picciano...
"bitter" business results? Definitely meant to say "better" of course, but it sure emphasizes how cautious one must be on a stage at this level.
"A lot of misinformation spread by desperate competitors."
"Lotus Knows why. Lotus Knows how"
The numbers game: 18,378 new customers since Notes 8. It was 12,236 a year ago. The eternal danger of numbers: anyone paying attention sees a 50% reduction in new customer growth.
"Some of our competitors believe in disruption for disruption's sake" And the screen shows a house of cards with faces like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.
"Seamlessly integrate cloud solutions with your existing environment in hybrid environments."
There's a big focus this year on industry-specific efforts. Part of the "Collaboration Agenda." Including hard ROI metrics for banking, insurance, government and healthcare.
"Many of you been here for 17 years."
"Sometimes I feel sorry for our competition.... we can't all be leaders."
"I spent 20 years as a hardcore developer"
Bob introduces Alistair Rennie...
"Thank you, Bob. We're going to miss you." No we won't. He's moving two houses down the street. He'll be over for coffee 3 times a week. And thank goodness, because otherwise we really WOULD miss him!
David Yach, CTO of RIM has taken the stage to talk about being a Lotus customer.
"BlackBerry has always been about taking your desk to your hip."
"RIM aggregates over 500 carriers globally."
"Point the BlackBerry at your Lotus Connections and you're done."
Alistair's back introducing Silvia from Zurich Insurance. She's talking about why Zurich didn't migrate from Notes to Outlook. "As a customer, I don't want to be burdened by IBM's organizational distinction." "I wouldn't tolerate technology that wasn't integrated." "Stay aggressive about Lotus."
Alistair now back.... talking about the Panasonic deal. It's 380,000 users that ultimately get connected.
Automotive supplier Continental now on stage. They migrated 40,000 users from Exchange to Notes when they acquired Siemens Automotive.
Strangely, there's an "Active Directory" mention on the screen. Gosh, I hope someone told Herr Doktor that directory independence for Domino has been indefinitely postponed.
Kirk Gutman from General Motors.drives up in a Lotus yellow corvette. (How'd I miss that car when I came in?) "The real challenge is the demand for mobility" The slide with reference to "Enterprise" shows a Foundations server. There's a great joke about the Big 3 car makers in there.
Jack Dausman and I are talking about how relaxed Alistair is on the big stage. He knows this crowd. And it's DEMO TIME...
Jeff Schick has taken the stage to talk about Connections. "leverages the cloud fragility?" I think he meant "flexibility."
Ron Sebastian is showing the BlackBerry client for Quickr. File check in/out for a mobile device.
Quickr for Domino allows direct publication to an external site.
Lots of calendar & task demos for Quickr. I get why they're building these things, and it's good work, but I'm frustrated by the fact that they're moving faster on these features in Quickr than they are in Notes. Why do I have C&S in the Notes client and C&S in Quickr?
Kevin Cavanaugh is announcing Traveler for Android! Nice.
IBM is providing their own mail/calendar client for Android. Bold move.
Showing the iPhone encrypted email plugin.
Kevin: "Look at all these customers that have changed their OUTLOOK on messaging. I know that was obvious and cheap, but can you blame me?"
Bones is on the screen. I'm blushing.
Xpages in the client demo, including Quickr Controls.
Ron's now showing the installation of an OpenNTF widget via drag & drop from the openntf.org website. Very nice.
Suzanne Livingston (formerly Minassian) is showing the Connection mobile client on Nokia. Now the Connections Next. Some very nice social discovery capabilities. And did I just see a headshot carousel in the upper right corner?
Now seeing integration between Connections, Portald, Sametime UT, Cognos, and Mashups in a demo healthcare scenario. Really great integration demo.
Multi-point HD video in the ST client. Now question about how live the demo is, since there's a camera pointed at the audience!
LotusLive hybrid environment. I've been waiting for this one. Drag & drop share from a Notes client to a LotusLive contact. I can't wait until they have comprehensive workflow for this stuff so that LotusLive can ultimately be a PUBLIC environment for publication.
Interesting that Kevin Cavanaugh and Jeff Schick are doing all the demos, rather than the heads of the individual Lotus divisions. IBM will introduce Connections Communities in the 2nd half this year. I'm wondering why this takes long at all.
Full Notes client support on LotusLive, plus Sametime IM, 5GB inbox, 1GB file storage, full archiving & retention. Very nice!
Demo on LotusLive Labs. Looks like there's an effort to accelerate the addition of capabilities there.
There's a GROUP of partners on stage. (haha, I'm so funny....)
Xerox is talking about their integration with Foundations. I saw a great demo of this last year, and it's killer stuff. I think John Head quoted my reaction several times last year.
"These printer people are really feisty" - Alistair Rennie
My boss just got some applause for a call back to the Lotus Knows, and is now talking about GroupLive.
There's a camera guy right in my face. It's a little spooky. :)
It's a little surreal that we won the CTO for EMEA, when so much of that development was here in the US.
Now we're moving on to the major end section: the Lotus vision demos. Historically, Lotus only talks about the next year... but this is a 24 month scope conversation. "Project Vulcan." Will Shatner come back out and talk about Vulcan!?!?!
We're seeing the future concept of the Inbox. It's REALLY clean. So much cleaner than the historic Notes client. Admittedly is looks like Wave.
The "Home page" is Facebook. We can't really call it anything else. But it's great that you can add custom apps into the experience.
Cognos integration to look at business reporting including social features in a bar graph. (way cool!)
Suzanne's demo of "Project-centric" activity is crazy cool. Deep integration of productivity tools into the collaboration experience. Task management directly from a web-based document editor.
Ron's showing the mobile experience for Vulcan. Task reassignment on the iPhone with a shake-gesture. Audience applauds at gimmickry, but really... it's cool that IBM is even remotely paying attention to that scope of interface.
Fini.
"bitter" business results? Definitely meant to say "better" of course, but it sure emphasizes how cautious one must be on a stage at this level.
"A lot of misinformation spread by desperate competitors."
"Lotus Knows why. Lotus Knows how"
The numbers game: 18,378 new customers since Notes 8. It was 12,236 a year ago. The eternal danger of numbers: anyone paying attention sees a 50% reduction in new customer growth.
"Some of our competitors believe in disruption for disruption's sake" And the screen shows a house of cards with faces like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.
"Seamlessly integrate cloud solutions with your existing environment in hybrid environments."
There's a big focus this year on industry-specific efforts. Part of the "Collaboration Agenda." Including hard ROI metrics for banking, insurance, government and healthcare.
"Many of you been here for 17 years."
"Sometimes I feel sorry for our competition.... we can't all be leaders."
"I spent 20 years as a hardcore developer"
Bob introduces Alistair Rennie...
"Thank you, Bob. We're going to miss you." No we won't. He's moving two houses down the street. He'll be over for coffee 3 times a week. And thank goodness, because otherwise we really WOULD miss him!
David Yach, CTO of RIM has taken the stage to talk about being a Lotus customer.
"BlackBerry has always been about taking your desk to your hip."
"RIM aggregates over 500 carriers globally."
"Point the BlackBerry at your Lotus Connections and you're done."
Alistair's back introducing Silvia from Zurich Insurance. She's talking about why Zurich didn't migrate from Notes to Outlook. "As a customer, I don't want to be burdened by IBM's organizational distinction." "I wouldn't tolerate technology that wasn't integrated." "Stay aggressive about Lotus."
Alistair now back.... talking about the Panasonic deal. It's 380,000 users that ultimately get connected.
Automotive supplier Continental now on stage. They migrated 40,000 users from Exchange to Notes when they acquired Siemens Automotive.
Strangely, there's an "Active Directory" mention on the screen. Gosh, I hope someone told Herr Doktor that directory independence for Domino has been indefinitely postponed.
Kirk Gutman from General Motors.drives up in a Lotus yellow corvette. (How'd I miss that car when I came in?) "The real challenge is the demand for mobility" The slide with reference to "Enterprise" shows a Foundations server. There's a great joke about the Big 3 car makers in there.
Jack Dausman and I are talking about how relaxed Alistair is on the big stage. He knows this crowd. And it's DEMO TIME...
Jeff Schick has taken the stage to talk about Connections. "leverages the cloud fragility?" I think he meant "flexibility."
Ron Sebastian is showing the BlackBerry client for Quickr. File check in/out for a mobile device.
Quickr for Domino allows direct publication to an external site.
Lots of calendar & task demos for Quickr. I get why they're building these things, and it's good work, but I'm frustrated by the fact that they're moving faster on these features in Quickr than they are in Notes. Why do I have C&S in the Notes client and C&S in Quickr?
Kevin Cavanaugh is announcing Traveler for Android! Nice.
IBM is providing their own mail/calendar client for Android. Bold move.
Showing the iPhone encrypted email plugin.
Kevin: "Look at all these customers that have changed their OUTLOOK on messaging. I know that was obvious and cheap, but can you blame me?"
Bones is on the screen. I'm blushing.
Xpages in the client demo, including Quickr Controls.
Ron's now showing the installation of an OpenNTF widget via drag & drop from the openntf.org website. Very nice.
Suzanne Livingston (formerly Minassian) is showing the Connection mobile client on Nokia. Now the Connections Next. Some very nice social discovery capabilities. And did I just see a headshot carousel in the upper right corner?
Now seeing integration between Connections, Portald, Sametime UT, Cognos, and Mashups in a demo healthcare scenario. Really great integration demo.
Multi-point HD video in the ST client. Now question about how live the demo is, since there's a camera pointed at the audience!
LotusLive hybrid environment. I've been waiting for this one. Drag & drop share from a Notes client to a LotusLive contact. I can't wait until they have comprehensive workflow for this stuff so that LotusLive can ultimately be a PUBLIC environment for publication.
Interesting that Kevin Cavanaugh and Jeff Schick are doing all the demos, rather than the heads of the individual Lotus divisions. IBM will introduce Connections Communities in the 2nd half this year. I'm wondering why this takes long at all.
Full Notes client support on LotusLive, plus Sametime IM, 5GB inbox, 1GB file storage, full archiving & retention. Very nice!
Demo on LotusLive Labs. Looks like there's an effort to accelerate the addition of capabilities there.
There's a GROUP of partners on stage. (haha, I'm so funny....)
Xerox is talking about their integration with Foundations. I saw a great demo of this last year, and it's killer stuff. I think John Head quoted my reaction several times last year.
"These printer people are really feisty" - Alistair Rennie
My boss just got some applause for a call back to the Lotus Knows, and is now talking about GroupLive.
There's a camera guy right in my face. It's a little spooky. :)
It's a little surreal that we won the CTO for EMEA, when so much of that development was here in the US.
Now we're moving on to the major end section: the Lotus vision demos. Historically, Lotus only talks about the next year... but this is a 24 month scope conversation. "Project Vulcan." Will Shatner come back out and talk about Vulcan!?!?!
We're seeing the future concept of the Inbox. It's REALLY clean. So much cleaner than the historic Notes client. Admittedly is looks like Wave.
The "Home page" is Facebook. We can't really call it anything else. But it's great that you can add custom apps into the experience.
Cognos integration to look at business reporting including social features in a bar graph. (way cool!)
Suzanne's demo of "Project-centric" activity is crazy cool. Deep integration of productivity tools into the collaboration experience. Task management directly from a web-based document editor.
Ron's showing the mobile experience for Vulcan. Task reassignment on the iPhone with a shake-gesture. Audience applauds at gimmickry, but really... it's cool that IBM is even remotely paying attention to that scope of interface.
Fini.
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Posted by Brian Miller At 10:00:21 AM On 01/19/2010 |