Lotusphere 2010, taking a moment to breathe
It's an interesting Lotusphere for me this
year. I had the good fortune to be invited back for the Blogger program,
so I get to experience the conference from the press perspective. Of
course, that means I have to actually BLOG, so I'd guess I'd better get
to it.
The conference in saturated with the Lotus Knows branding, which is great. As conferences in the past have had themes, Lotus carried the branding message all the way through the conference, and it's on the badges, in the scripts, on the slides... really everywhere. I've actually seen a lot of this message before at other Lotus events and in various partner programs, but for many of the attendees, this is the first time they're seeing it.
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The conference in saturated with the Lotus Knows branding, which is great. As conferences in the past have had themes, Lotus carried the branding message all the way through the conference, and it's on the badges, in the scripts, on the slides... really everywhere. I've actually seen a lot of this message before at other Lotus events and in various partner programs, but for many of the attendees, this is the first time they're seeing it.
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I suppose I'm playing it a little low key
to not mention that Group was honored with the Lotus CTO award for Europe,
Middle East and Africa today. We submitted our Group Live Innova
product, which is an auto-provisioned, private/public cloud environment
for Domino that comes with a zero-code Xpages app framework. If
you've been seeing my #HellWeek tweets, now you know what those were about.
I'll be writing more about Innova in the coming weeks.
IBM has doubled-down on the conversation about OpenNTF.org, too. Between the Lotus Awards for Pavone and Rene Winkelmeyer, several mentions in keynote sessions, and the tremendous push for IBM engineers to release code on the site, it's been a huge validation of our efforts over the last 9 months.
The Project Vulcan future vision has been thrilling to see, too. It's a delicate game for Lotus to talk about concepts further out than a year, but they've been pushing the boundaries so far with talking about time horizons as far as ten years! As you see screen shots and examples of the Project Vulcan vision, you should understand that what you are seeing is a Notes client. You'll see web browsers, too -- but the rich client is really the premier delivery vehicle for IBM's forward vision. And that's even more remarkable when you consider that their approach to delivering is HTML5. That means that ultimately, the Notes client will have to be a first tier consumer of HTML5 content. That should make you shudder with joy.
The vibe this year is decidedly lower key. It feels like this is on purpose. There's a much greater sense of confidence in the air. It seems like less posturing, and a lot more focus on delivery. And it doesn't hurt that presenters like Kevin Cavanaugh are going after the competition with both barrels. Not with silly catechisms, but with clear statements like "Microsoft's Office business is down 34%, and we're going to keep driving against them."
I'd like to say I'm struggling to think of anything bad over the last two days, but alas, I can easily identify the worst thing about Lotusphere this year: the badge holders. They have a nylon ribbon neck strap that's like wearing razor wire around your neck. Worst. Choice. Ever.
But then, if that's the worst thing I can think of about what's going on in Orlando this week, then clearly Lotus has hit it out of the park.
IBM has doubled-down on the conversation about OpenNTF.org, too. Between the Lotus Awards for Pavone and Rene Winkelmeyer, several mentions in keynote sessions, and the tremendous push for IBM engineers to release code on the site, it's been a huge validation of our efforts over the last 9 months.
The Project Vulcan future vision has been thrilling to see, too. It's a delicate game for Lotus to talk about concepts further out than a year, but they've been pushing the boundaries so far with talking about time horizons as far as ten years! As you see screen shots and examples of the Project Vulcan vision, you should understand that what you are seeing is a Notes client. You'll see web browsers, too -- but the rich client is really the premier delivery vehicle for IBM's forward vision. And that's even more remarkable when you consider that their approach to delivering is HTML5. That means that ultimately, the Notes client will have to be a first tier consumer of HTML5 content. That should make you shudder with joy.
The vibe this year is decidedly lower key. It feels like this is on purpose. There's a much greater sense of confidence in the air. It seems like less posturing, and a lot more focus on delivery. And it doesn't hurt that presenters like Kevin Cavanaugh are going after the competition with both barrels. Not with silly catechisms, but with clear statements like "Microsoft's Office business is down 34%, and we're going to keep driving against them."
I'd like to say I'm struggling to think of anything bad over the last two days, but alas, I can easily identify the worst thing about Lotusphere this year: the badge holders. They have a nylon ribbon neck strap that's like wearing razor wire around your neck. Worst. Choice. Ever.
But then, if that's the worst thing I can think of about what's going on in Orlando this week, then clearly Lotus has hit it out of the park.
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That means that ultimately, the Notes client will have to be a first tier consumer of HTML5 content. That should make you shudder with joy.
Posted by Timothy Briley At 09:38:32 PM On 01/18/2010 | - Website - |