New from IBM Press - XPages Extension Library
Fri, May 18th 2012 7:01a Ed Brill Earlier this week, IBM Press released its third book on XPages, XPages Extension Library: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Next Generation of XPages Components. Meet the authors: Really happy to see the names of Declan Sciolla-Lynch, Jeremy Hodge, and Tim Tripcony on there (a special hat tip to Tim there). It's great to see the community involved in education and writing. Congratulations to all of the authors! XPages Extension Library is the first and only complete guide to Domin [read] Keywords: domino
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Announcing IBM SmartCloud Archive Essentials
Thu, May 17th 2012 11:40a Ed Brill At today's IBM SmartCloud Forum event here in Chicago, we announced that we'll soon begin offering IBM SmartCloud Archive Essentials. This new, pure SaaS service is tightly integrated with IBM SmartCloud Notes, and will provide customers with a secure, searchable copy of any or all user mailboxes. Customers are increasingly interested in automating compliance and information lifecycle governance (ILG) tasks. Email is still the #1 source of discoverable content for legal and regulatory act [read] Keywords: domino
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Over one MILLION downloads, and now the future of Lotus Symphony - Apache OpenOffice
Wed, May 16th 2012 9:20a Ed Brill Earlier today, IBM delivered on a promise. Last July, in throwing our support to the new Apache OpenOffice podling project, we committed to contribute the source code of Lotus Symphony -- a fork of OpenOffice -- back into the mainline project. This morning, that contribution is complete. With today's action, we are re-uniting behind one OpenOffice, and will work with the Apache OpenOffice community to take the best of Symphony forward along with the best of OpenOffice. We will do this i [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Mobile strategy for Social Business
Tue, May 15th 2012 9:00a Ed Brill Earlier today, I posted the latest version of the IBM Social Business presentation on mobile strategy. The presentation covers solutions available from IBM software for mobile social business, business intelligence, and commerce, as well as a deep dive on Lotus Notes Traveler, IBM Connections Mobile, IBM Sametime Mobile, IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices (nee BigFix), Lotus Mobile Connect, and custom application development through XPages or IBM Worklight. I suspect when you review this [read] Keywords: connections
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ibm.com: Hospitals in Russia’s Regions Turn to IBM to Transform Healthcare
Fri, May 11th 2012 10:40a Ed Brill Some cool Domino-based solutions being deployed for smarter healthcare in Russia... IBM is also working with KMIS and the Emergency Hospital of Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia in North Western Russia to implement electronic medical records and an automated hospital information management system for its eight therapy and three diagnostic departments. The new system which is based on IBM Notes and Domino software provides unified access to many types of medical data, allowing doctors [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: Hospitals in Russiaâs Regions Turn to IBM to Transform Healthcare
Thu, May 10th 2012 9:50p Ed Brill Some cool Domino-based solutions being deployed for smarter healthcare in Russia... IBM is also working with KMIS and the Emergency Hospital of Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia in North Western Russia to implement electronic medical records and an automated hospital information management system for its eight therapy and three diagnostic departments. The new system which is based on IBM Notes and Domino software provides unified access to many types of medical data, allowing doctors a [read] Keywords: domino
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SmartCloud for Social Business - e-commerce
Thu, May 10th 2012 8:00a Ed Brill Recently, as part of the rebranding from LotusLive, the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business added a pretty important capability -- "buy online". In the past for LotusLive, this was a somewhat-complicated process through PassportAdvantage Express. The new e-commerce engine allows online purchase of key services including SmartCloud Engage, SmartCloud Meetings, and SmartCloud Notes. For small customers especially, which continues to be one of the key market segments for software-as-a- [read] Keywords: ibm
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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 announcement
Tue, May 8th 2012 3:25p Ed Brill I was out of the office most of the day so didn't have a chance to link this earlier... The Apache OpenOffice Project today announced the availability of Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4, the first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache OpenOffice is the original open source office productivity suite, designed for professional and consumer use. "With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project [read] Keywords: ibm
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Notes/Domino future roadmap workshop
Mon, May 7th 2012 10:20a Ed Brill Thanks so much for over 100 comments worth of valuable input on where we should be taking Notes/Domino in the future. We took this chart into the meeting as one of many inputs, coming from edbrill.com readers: Other inputs included the design partners, feedback from events like Lotusphere, competitive analysis, SPRs/APARs/PMRs, strategy coming down from IBM software group at large, sales input, and many many many other input vectors. Triaging for a mass-market product is always one of [read] Keywords: connections
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Management level view of the social mail concept now on YouTube
Tue, May 1st 2012 5:31a Ed Brill OK, so this six-minute YouTube video violates one of the frequent requests made of IBM marketing: we aren't showing the product. Instead I try in a little more than five minutes to explain what we mean by a "social mail" experience, and what we are building for the next release of IBM Connections (and in the future, other mail experiences we deliver): The IBMSocialBiz channel on YouTube has many other videos we have produced in the last few months, including one filmed at Lotusphere wh [read] Keywords: connections
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Two cool new UC videos - Sametime in new ways - on YouTube
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 3:28a Ed Brill Last week, a couple of IBM business partners posted interesting new Sametime-related videos on YouTube. The first, from BelsoftAG, shows how to use the new Sametime Meetings for iPad client, just released last week! It highlights the interactive nature of the app, the ability to participate in meetings on multiple servers, and and even being able to share links and other content in the meeting. The second, from foresee, showcases a demo that was conducted at the German CeBIT last month [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Open Mic Webcast: What’s the Latest with Notes Traveler? - 24 April 2012
Wed, Apr 18th 2012 11:50a Ed Brill My colleagues in development and support are hosting an open mic call next week to discuss the latest developments with Lotus Notes Traveler....IBM will host an Open Mic webcast with Lotus Development and Support Engineers on 24 April 2012. The topic will be "What's the Latest with Notes Traveler?."Details in this technote.... Link: ibm.com: Open Mic Webcast: What's the Latest with Notes Traveler? - 24 April 2012 > [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections plug-in for Lotus Symphony 3.0.1
Mon, Apr 9th 2012 4:00p Ed Brill This plug-in, which was demonstrated at Lotusphere 2012, is now available. As announced on the download page...The IBM Connections plug-in lets you add Lotus Symphony files to an activity or a files, create To Dos for activity users, post a Symphony document to a blog or a wiki, or search IBM Connections for a person's profile or other content. I'm downloading now! Link: ibm.com: IBM Connections plug-in for Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 > [read] Keywords: connections
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Bali
Sun, Apr 8th 2012 12:33p Ed Brill My first trip to Asia in five years was basically a return to the last place I had spent any time - Bali. Bali served as a convenient side trip weekend between the intensity of the Australian Lotus User Group and a few days of business meetings in Jakarta. Nonstop flights to/from made it a no-brainer choice, though with all the excitement of the democratic movement in Myanmar/Burma last week, I still regret that I couldn't find my way there. Another time. My wife and I honeymooned in Bali fi [read] Keywords: lotus
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Japanese airline customer service - again
Fri, Apr 6th 2012 8:59a Ed Brill I survived 34 hours of transit between hotel room in Jakarta, Indonesia, and walking in the door of my home again "yesterday". Thank you to Andi and Chris and Gunawan for being great hosts in Jakarta. Among the top hotels I've ever stayed in for IBM travel, excellent meals of local cuisine, and the traffic wasn't near as bad as I was lead to believe (or maybe I just got lucky). I had few flight options coming home from Jakarta, most of them involved mutli-hour stopovers in either Hong Ko [read] Keywords: ibm
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AusLUG 2012 report
Fri, Mar 30th 2012 12:50a Ed Brill The 2nd Australian Lotus User Group (AusLUG) has just come to a close. Over 300 attendees participated in 58 breakout sessions across the two days here in Melbourne. It was a fantastic event, and my congratulations to the organizing committee, lead by Mat Newman, for the event's overall success. It seemed like about half the attendees had participated in the Sydney event last August. It also seemed like there were more developers than admins, along with a whole bunch of IT management, archit [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 Release Notice
Mon, Mar 26th 2012 12:30p Ed Brill Over the weekend, we posted Fixpack 1 for Notes/Domino 8.5.3. Senior Manager Scott Vrusho asked me to give the fixpack a little link love... This is our 1st fix pack on 8.5.3 with over 100 fixes for Notes/Domino/iNotes. The 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 Release Notice, lists the Top 20 defects fixes in this fix pack. A full list of fixes can be found here. 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 can be downloaded from IBM Fix Central and download options are outlined here. We encourage customers deploying 8.5.3 to consi [read] Keywords: domino
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Chicago Tribune: Conversations with tourists in Brussels show little awareness of Chicago
Thu, Mar 22nd 2012 1:10p Ed Brill If you have followed my blog or other online presence for a while, you know this is a pet topic/peeve of mine...Chicago has miles to go before it is understood, appreciated and visited more frequently by overseas travelers. That much was clear in the spring sunshine here in this European capital as officials from Chicago arrived to boost the Windy City's image before hosting the NATO summit in May. Conversations with international tourists in Brussels revealed little awareness of Chicago bey [read] Keywords:
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One week to AusLUG
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 9:40a Ed Brill The second Australian Lotus User Group is only a week away. How time flies. The event is shaping up to be pretty incredible. Registration is already over 300 delegates, which would make this year's AusLUG among the biggest such events anywhere in the world. This year's event in Melbourne features nearly a dozen international speakers, including six IBM Champions. The XPages seminar and Domino deep dive tack-it-on events add an additional level of technical depth to the event. I'll be pa [read] Keywords: collaboration
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James Whittaker: Why I left Google
Mon, Mar 19th 2012 1:10p Ed Brill Clues, smoke, not necessarily fire, but interesting to see what's apparently happening at Google. First, an ex-Googler (who apparently has rejoined Microsoft), James Whittaker, wrote a lengthy note on why he decided to leave Google. Very blunt:The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus. ... As the trappings of entrepreneurship were dismantled, deris [read] Keywords: collaboration
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UC Vendor Landscape from Info-Tech Research Group
Mon, Mar 19th 2012 6:40a Ed Brill I tweeted this last week and posted on my Facebook page, but it's probably worth repeating on the blog as well. Also covered on the Sametime Blog, a good resource in our UC2 efforts. The Info-Tech Research Group just published its report on the UC Vendor Landscape, ranking unified communications vendors and products on various criteria. Here's the bottom line: Thank you to Info-Tech Research Group for recognizing IBM's continued leadership in this space. Some have noted that in t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Indonesia
Sun, Mar 18th 2012 9:00p Ed Brill Some of you are probably wondering what the outcome of my last blog post was. In parallel to asking the blogosphere about where I should go, my IBM colleagues were also working on customer visit opportunities. In the end, it appears I will proceed from next week's AusLUG in Melbourne to Indonesia, for my third visit to the country. My first, in April 2006, was to the island of Batam, for a quiet weekend in between work efforts. The second, in 2007, was our honeymoon in Bali where the main so [read] Keywords: ibm
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SE Asian customers, let’s test how this social business stuff works
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 9:06p Ed Brill In less than two weeks, I'll be in Melbourne Australia at the 2nd AusLUG event. That's the one that's just shy of being sold out, by the way, so if you are still thinking of attending AusLUG, now would be a very good time to make a final decision. :-) After AusLUG, my plan had been to carry on to Singapore for the Business Gets Social Roadshow, however the date for the Singapore event has subsequently moved. My IBM colleagues in the region are working on several opportunities for me to [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Doug Heintzman: Symphony is alive and well and living at Apache
Wed, Mar 14th 2012 9:51a Ed Brill Doug Heintzman is Director of Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions. Doug has been involved in IBM's strategy around document productivity and editing for the last several years. Earlier this week, on the IBM Software blog, Doug explained IBM's Document Strategy going forward:The world is awash in unstructured data. Much, if not most of it, is in the form of documents, and their number and importance in creating value will increase quite dramatically in the next number of years. Most IT storag [read] Keywords: collaboration
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XWork Server Update
Wed, Mar 7th 2012 7:35a Ed Brill It has been five months since we introduced IBM XWork Server as part of the Domino family. Last week, my team and I conducted an internal review of progress to date, and concluded that while we're happy with the initial market response and sales, there is more opportunity ahead. Back in October, I explained our reasons for creating XWork Server -- branding, pricing, flexibility. And since that time, partners like FoCul, We4IT, Elguji and many others have embraced XWork Server as a go-to-mar [read] Keywords: domino
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ZDNet Asia: IBM’s social push indirectly benefits Lotus Notes
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 10:40a Ed Brill ZDNet Asia has a story on how the IBM social business strategy relates to the existing business around Lotus Notes and Domino. Quotes included from Forrester's Michael Barnes and Constellation's Alan Lepofsky (who I coincidentally had dinner with last night...). But the best quote of the story came from IBM Asian sales leader Christopher Blake, emphasis mine:Asked if rebranding Lotus Notes with a new name could help boost demand, Blake replied: "Calling Lotus Notes legacy simply because it [read] Keywords: domino
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LotusLive is now IBM SmartCloud Social
Mon, Mar 5th 2012 4:20a Ed Brill Over the weekend, LotusLive took on the new branding and identity that we announced at Lotusphere, and is now IBM SmartCloud for Social Business (or just "SmartCloud Social"). The unification of the IBM SmartCloud story is happening on multiple channels, even including our Twitter and Facebook presence. In this way, customers and partners can learn about the full line of IBM cloud offerings, not just LotusLive standing on its own. Also today, IBM is announcing a new customer for Sm [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: IDC White Paper - The Future of Mail is Social
Fri, Feb 17th 2012 9:40a Ed Brill IBM has just posted a new white paper on the evolution of email, written by IDC analyst Michael Fauscette. The paper discusses the history of email, how companies are viewing email in the context of collaboration and social business, and then takes a converged view of the future of email and its evolution into a social business tool. Social mail consideration and adoption are then discussed. As social collaboration tools become more available and are deployed to more employees, some companies a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Changes to my March+April schedule
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 5:11p Ed Brill In a previous blog entry announcing last week's trip to Germany, I also mentioned plans to visit the Business Gets Social roadshow in Taiwan in March, and a possible stop at the Belgian Lotus User Group (BLUG). Well, a personal conflict came up around that timeframe, and I had to back out of both. Instead.... I will be keynoting the 2nd Australian Lotus User Group (AusLUG) on 29/30 March in Melbourne. Subsequent to that, I'll be in Singapore on 4 April for the Business Gets Social roadsh [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New from IBM Press: XPages Portable Command Guide
Sun, Feb 12th 2012 5:11p Ed Brill IBM Press has followed up on last year's "Mastering XPages" book with a new title on XPages.... XPages Portable Command Guide offers fast access to working code, tested solutions, expert tips, and example-driven best practices. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience as IBM XPages lead developers and customer consultants, the authors explore many lesser known facets of the XPages runtime, illuminating these capabilities with dozens of examples that solve specific XPages development pro [read] Keywords: ibm
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Information Week: Jive CEO: Social Tools Are Essential, Not Extras
Wed, Feb 8th 2012 1:55p Ed Brill We agree in principle... Social software is the best way for organizations to organize "their single biggest investment, which for most companies is their people," [Jive CEO Tony Zingale] said. "They must adopt social business strategy or risk falling behind their competitors."Couldn't have said it better ourselves. However, I'm surprised where he goes from there: IBM Connections is the "refurbished Lotus email system"Um, OK. Even the reporter isn't buying it:His slams agains [read] Keywords: connections
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Wired: Clive Thompson on Analog Designs in the Digital Age
Tue, Feb 7th 2012 2:00p Ed Brill On my flight over to Europe this week, I read Clive Thompson's column and was intrigued:When we get to the last week of February, open your Google Calendar and choose the Month view. You'll see the previous three weeks grayed out. Only the next few days will be "active." If you want to see what you've got planned for more than the next couple of days, you have to flip forward to March. Now ask yourself: Why does Google Calendar--and nearly every other digital calendar--work that way? It [read] Keywords: lotus
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Dominoplus introduces D+ Everywhere
Mon, Jan 30th 2012 7:31a Ed Brill When I was in Spain last fall for the ESLUG event, I met Alejandro and the team from Dominoplus. They were excited to show me their "D+ Everywhere" application, which uses XPages to deliver offline mobile applications over HTML5. Now they have commercialized the solution, so I can highlight it more broadly:Domino+ has developed a solution based on Lotus Domino, xPages, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile which allows Lotus Domino xPages applications to be used off-line when there's no data connection. It [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: What versions of Lotus Notes support Citrix XenApp 6.5?
Sun, Jan 29th 2012 6:30a Ed Brill After hearing from many customers that support for Citrix XenApp 6.5 was important even before the release of Notes/Domino Social Edition, a plan for supporting 6.5 has emerged:IBM will support Citrix XenApp 6.5 with Notes 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 Basic and Standard clients, per the standard recommended Citrix XenApp installation guidelines provided, for the usual length of product life cycle/End of Service and/or terms of customer Support & Service agreement. Support will not request that customers [read] Keywords: domino
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New book-IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader’s Guide
Fri, Jan 27th 2012 7:30a Ed Brill Packt Publishing has just released another new Notes/Domino book: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide. The authors are IBMers Barry Rosen, Tim Speed, and Scott O'Keefe. This updates their earlier book on Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1. IBM Lotus Domino software is a world class platform for critical business, collaboration, and messaging applications. With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Annual February Germany tour starts on the 6th
Wed, Jan 25th 2012 2:10p Ed Brill In what has become a nearly-annual tradition since 2005, I'll be in Germany in ten days, for Lotusphere Comes to You events in Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt. Munich, 6/7 February - edcom nachlese. A great annual event and a special place in my heart. I'll present my Lotusphere session on Messaging and Collaboration, but also the Q&A afterwards with vowe's "Good German" is a highlight. Ron Sebastian kicks the event off as he has likewise for many years. Hamburg, 8 Februar [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: Mobility
Tue, Jan 24th 2012 7:40p Ed Brill One of last week's announcements that I didn't quite get to on the blog was the plan to support Windows Phone with the upcoming release of Lotus Notes Traveler. Specifically, IBM called out the intention to support Nokia and HTC devices on Notes Traveler. Yes, this is a reversal from my previously-stated position that Windows Phone wasn't interesting in the enterprise and thus, we wouldn't be investing. What persuaded me was our partnership with Nokia, and relative newcomer to the dance HTC, [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is now available
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 5:40p Ed Brill From the Lotus Symphony website: Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is our latest release. There are many enhancements in this release including support for 1 million rows in spreadsheets, bubble charts and a new design for the home page.This will also likely be the last release of IBM's own fork of the OpenOffice codebase. Our energy from here is going into the Apache OpenOffice project, and we expect to distribute an "IBM edition" of Apache OpenOffice in the future. We have contributed the Lotus Symphon [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2012: Videos
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 9:30a Ed Brill For the first time, many of the Lotusphere sessions are available online, simultaneously with the conference. Better yet, they are still available this week :-) The opening general session can be viewed at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/conference/ogs/ Beyond that, there is a ton of content on LiveStream.com/ibmsoftware. The other general sessions, many strategy and focus breakouts, and a series of "conversations with Lenny Liebmann" -- on camera interviews on a range of top [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: Social Business for SMBs
Fri, Jan 20th 2012 8:00a Ed Brill Lots more to write about Lotusphere 2012. Someone asked me yesterday where I had been all week; this was another year where I spent far more time in meeting rooms and back offices. One such activity was a real privilege -- on Wednesday morning, I hosted a press briefing/panel (yes a panel) highlighting the role of social business in small business. The three panelists were Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, CIO at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising; Ken LaVan, President of LaVan & Neidenberg, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2012: Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, aka "8.5.3!"
Tue, Jan 17th 2012 4:50a Ed Brill As always, a highlight for me at Lotusphere is my time on the stage, and this year was no exception. INV101, Messaging and Collaboration Strategy, had about 1500 attendees in the room, and many more watching via livestream (which is still available). Great attendance and it really energized me, and my copresenters -- no, rock stars -- from Petrobras. Petrobras discussed their upgrade from Notes/Domino 6.5 to Notes/Domino 8.5.x. They laid out clear, quantitative benefits and financial results. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: IBM Docs beta
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 8:41a Ed Brill Today at Lotusphere 2012, IBM unveiled the beta release of IBM Docs, formerly known as LotusLive Symphony. The beta release is available now on Greenhouse, http://greenhouse.lotus.com . IBM Docs is a completely cloud-based set of social document editors -- word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool -- that are focused on the needs of teams to share and improve productivity, both inside and outside the firewall. IBM Docs authors will be able to store documents in IBM SmartCloud Engage (former [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012: Blogging/tweeting plans
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 8:30p Ed Brill We have a lot of exciting news and announcements coming in the Lotusphere 2012 keynote in just about 10 hours. Of the day's highlights, my team has been working on at least four of the announcements. My goal in blogging them tomorrow is not to be first; it is to have a place to discuss these announcements with all of you, whether you are here in Orlando or not. Thus, I'm going to stagger a few posts out throughout the day, rather than post a slew of them at once during the opening session. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2012: Live long and prosper
Fri, Jan 13th 2012 7:19a Ed Brill Good morning from Orlando. It's always disorienting to be in these hotels when it's not Lotusphere. Today at the Dolphin, some sales meeting is wrapping up. The attendees do not seem demographically to match Lotusphere... ...but that will all start changing today. And in 24-36 hours, I know I'll be in the zone, with thousands of my closest friends and colleagues. There is a lot of exciting news and innovation coming in the next week at Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012. Obviously I'm not [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM expands social business initiative, "Great Mind Challenge"
Wed, Jan 11th 2012 3:01a Ed Brill This morning, IBM is issuing two press release highlighting social business initiatives. Both of these are pretty cool and timely in advance of next week's Lotusphere and Connect 2012 events. The first announcement is an academic initiative between IBM and San Jose State University. SJSU's Professor Larry Gee, who will be at Lotusphere next week, directs this new component of IBM's "Great Mind Challenge", previously only conducted in India. The Challenge will also be offered as part of [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Redbooks Wiki: Lotus Domino Development Best Practices
Tue, Jan 10th 2012 3:50p Ed Brill Hot off the virtual presses...47 articles designed to help you make the best out of your Domino/XPages applications:This wiki covers what is needed to build or enhance an application, regardless of client, and the general practices to make development easier, less time consuming, and easy to support changes within the lifecycle of an application. It also includes instructions on infrastructure and operational improvements which can benefit performance and maintainability of your environment.Than [read] Keywords: domino
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Where to find me at Lotusphere 2012
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 8:39p Ed Brill In many respects, even a week out, the answer is still "I don't know yet". I only have two public sessions at Lotusphere 2012: The Messaging and Collaboration Strategy session on Monday the 16th at 2:15 PM in the Dolphin North Hemisphere ballrooms, and hosting Ask the Product Managers on Thursday the 19th at 11:15 in the Swan ballrooms. Everything else on that calendar is individual meetings, press interviews, analyst connections, or behind-the-scenes staff activity. Sure, in the evenin [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2012, the students, and a career fair
Sat, Jan 7th 2012 1:00p Ed Brill I have been so busy getting ready for Lotusphere 2012 that I have not been blogging much about it! That changes now, starting with this post, an upcoming entry on our Social Insights blog, and announcements in the coming days. At Lotusphere 2011, our friends at GBS (GROUP Business Software) teamed with IBM to bus in a group of students from University of South Florida and other colleges to participate in a special college day. It was great to have this participation from a set of future leade [read] Keywords: ibm
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The CIO called me
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 12:20p Ed Brill Happy New Year! During the holidays, I blogged my 2011 year in review and became an all-Apple family. Of course, that wasn't all that was going on. We're just days away from Lotusphere 2012, and we had a year to close out. Down to the last days of the year, I was working with a few customer deals as we always do. One, a customer I had worked with throughout 2011, was a particularly inventive deal, whereby we approached a multi-national organization with the best way to consolidate and centr [read] Keywords: ibm
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An all Apple family
Tue, Dec 27th 2011 6:50a Ed Brill Back in April, I proudly declared my second anniversary of living completely Microsoft-free. Not much has changed in the last six months, though their acquisition of Skype has momentarily returned a piece of "Microsoft" software to my kit-bag. There are alternatives to Skype, though, so I'm getting back to that mantra. Beyond Microsoft-free, though, the point of that blog entry was how much Apple technology had entered my life in the last few years. Earlier this month, IBM started a conver [read] Keywords: connections
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New Notes/iNotes 8.5.3 and Citrix scalability white paper
Wed, Dec 21st 2011 4:30a Ed Brill Recommendations from the performance team on how to optimize Citrix XenApp 5.0 and 6.0 and Notes/iNotes 8.5.3...This white paper provides an overview and recommendations for how to get the most from the IBM Lotus® Notes® 8.5.3 client on the Citrix® XenApp™ 5.0 and Citrix XenApp 6.0 servers. Specifically, it shows that by tuning the environment, you can realize significant improvements when running the Notes client on XenApp.Updated for the latest releases. Since I can see the q [read] Keywords: domino
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Demo of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 new teamroom template
Tue, Dec 20th 2011 7:10a Ed Brill The IBM Lotus Notes/Domino product pages have been updated with a link -- no registration required -- to a five minute presentation/demo showing the new Teamroom template available with Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1. The new template is XPages-based and is optimized for mobile browsers. The demo video not only highlights the new template capabilities, it also walks through how easy it is to upgrade from earlier Teamroom designs. Link: ibm.com: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Mobilize your so [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM 5in5: IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 9:10a Ed Brill This is a pretty cool view into the future from IBM Research, especially one that is relevant to the messaging marketplace:In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem spam is dead. At the same time, spam filters will be so precise you’ll never be bothered by unwanted sales pitches again. Imagine if tickets to your favorite band are put on hold for you the moment they became available, and for the one night of the week that is free on your ca [read] Keywords: ibm
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New releases week, part 2: LotusLive new release
Tue, Dec 13th 2011 3:01a Ed Brill OK, second day, second new release. The channel announcement is live by now in some markets... Today we are releasing an update to the entire LotusLive service. Some highlights: Connections Files update to version 3.5. Drag and drop, soft delete, customizable end-user views. New Connections community management settings Mobile Meetings clients (previously announced) and new LotusLive Notes features, including: An "over-the-wire" method to transfer mailboxes into the service. Previously, [read] Keywords: connections
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Network World: Microsoft updates Exchange 2010
Tue, Dec 6th 2011 9:21a Ed Brill Could it be that it has been a whole year since I posted anything about my competition in Redmond? I guess I hadn't really consciously realized that I had moved away from the competitive battle here on the blog, but there has been so much going on at IBM that there hasn't been a need to distract with the competition's weak points. However, I couldn't pass this up in yesterday's Network World:Microsoft has updated its Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, posting a service pack with a number o [read] Keywords: ibm
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A few useful links and topics from the last few days
Mon, Dec 5th 2011 9:35p Ed Brill I've been posting stuff like this on my Facebook persona page and on Twitter, but I thought it might be useful to expose these links to the blog audience as well. Enterprise MobileNext: As previously blogged, I was at the inaugural Enterprise MobileNext conference last week in San Francisco. IBM VP Nigel Beck and I delivered a keynote on Thursday, and had the opportunity to talk (along with Alistair Rennie, Bharti Patel, and other IBMers) to many of the customers and vendors present at the [read] Keywords: domino
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Michael Sampson’s new book, Collaboration Roadmap
Sun, Dec 4th 2011 11:30p Ed Brill Somewhere in the Pacific Rim, it's Monday the 5th, the official publication date of Michael Sampson's new book, Collaboration Roadmap. I strongly recommend that any IT manager or professional in the field of collaboration, social business, or even base collaborative technologies like email, should check out Michael's book. It was my privilege to write the Foreward for Collaboration Roadmap. This gave me the opportunity to read the whole text, cover to cover, and discover a tremendous [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Headed to Enterprise MobileNext Forum, San Francisco
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 5:00p Ed Brill It's been a long day of watching air traffic control in Chicago, but if all goes well, in a few hours I'm headed to San Francisco for the Enterprise MobileNext Forum, taking place tomorrow and Thursday. Enterprise MobileNext is a new conference, bringing together a few hundred key senior IT strategists and decision-makers to plan the future of enterprise mobility. I was honored to be part of the Advisory Board that put the conference together, and will be joining Alistair Rennie on Thursday [read] Keywords: ibm
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Deutsche Post DHL and IBM integrate "E-Postbrief"
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 9:10p Ed Brill While this news probably doesn't affect anyone outside of Germany directly, I do think it's useful to highlight for two reasons -- 1) the importance of integration between Notes/Domino and other messaging-related technologies/implementations and 2) the speed with which IBM was able to do this (notably, faster than Microsoft). Earlier this month, the Deutsche Post (German Post Office) announced the integration of Lotus Notes with E-Postbrief. Notes users can send secure mail utilizing variou [read] Keywords: domino
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ibm.com: Cabin Attendants Union improves its document management
Sun, Nov 27th 2011 8:00p Ed Brill As regular readers know, we've made a lot of adjustments to Domino Express in exactly the last twelve months -- adding 2-way clustering, ending other technical restrictions, changing the definition of an Express-eligible organization for Messaging/Collaboration Express to 1000 users per Domino domain. While I can't ever get into specific sales figures, the results have been very positive, especially in terms of selling new licenses. I often get asked about examples of very small organizatio [read] Keywords: administration
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"New Fangled Notes" informercial
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 8:00a Ed Brill A shout-out to UK partner Portal for a creative effort, reminiscent of one of the first Notes Dennis Leary commercials, to explain in simple terms some surprising innovations of Lotus Notes today... Full details on their website's "New Fangled Notes" page > [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM’s 2011 Tech Trends report
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 7:20a Ed Brill Hot off the presses this morning is IBM's 2011 Tech Trends report. More than 4000 IT professionals from all over the world -- 93 countries -- participated in the survey. The results cover a wide range of topics, including analytics, mobile, cloud, and social -- a buzzword bingo! In mobility, I was intrigued by the following, "Planned mobile development platforms": In the realm of social, Forty-eight percent of respondents cited “adoption by employee and/or customer” as [read] Keywords: ibm
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New on ibm.com: Lotus Notes Traveler Deployment Cookbook
Sun, Nov 13th 2011 11:50a Ed Brill This is a good use of a wiki...Lotus Notes Traveler provides mobile support for Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes users, including real-time replication of e-mail, calendar, address book, journal, and to-do lists. This Cookbook serves as a deployment guide for Domino administrators to help you get the most from your Notes Traveler installation with a minimum of fuss. It provides highlights of what you must know about before you deploy to any size organization and what you should avoid. Be sure to re [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime on iOS - pilot testing
Fri, Nov 11th 2011 9:36a Ed Brill It's been no secret that we are working on an installed IBM Sametime application for iOS, just as we have recently shipped one for Android. I had the opportunity earlier this week to spend a full day working from the internal pilot of Sametime on iOS. Short summary -- great app, well-designed. As you can see in the screen shot, I was only working over 3G, not wifi. The speed and responsiveness was just fine. The battery life was great, too, because the when the app is not active, it backs [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM’s Introduction to XPages courseware - free
Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 10:01a Ed Brill IBM's services team has taken a bold step this week -- posting the courseware for Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages (D8L55) on the IBM Lotus Greenhouse at no charge. Yes, free as in free beer! Why free? As part of the OpenCourseWare movement, pioneered at MIT a decade ago. The IBM Education team is taking a step forward to advance informal learning through the sharing and use of free, quality educational materials to build skills in the marketplace. From Sonia Malik in our E [read] Keywords: domino
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Computerworld: IBM opens up smartphone, tablet support for its workers
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 2:00p Ed Brill Really good article about IBM's approach to mobile devices and tablets. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is fully in play, while respecting need for corporate governance and security. Android and iOS quickly emerging as the two mainstream platforms, though 30,000 IBMers (like me) are using Blackberry (of course, I have an iPad as well...).... Initially, IBM workers will have email, contacts and calendar access through IBM Lotus Traveler, Bodin said. In addition to installing agent soft [read] Keywords: agent
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Language versions of Notes/Domino 8.5.3
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 12:50p Ed Brill Most-frequently asked question this week -- when are the language versions of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 coming? IBM doesn't pre-announce the release dates for a variety of reasons. The best available information I have, though, may help with planning. We are expecting the first group of languages - Chinese (simplified/traditional), Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish - around the second week of November, 2011. The second group of languages - Danish, Dutch, Finnis [read] Keywords: domino
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CNNMoney: IBM CEO Palmisano to step down
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 4:10p Ed Brill The headline is a little mis-leading, since Palmisano remains as Chairman, but Ginni Rometty moves up to CEO and President, as announced today by IBM. What I like about this article is this: Palmisano's tenure was an extremely successful one: After taking the tech giant's reins from Lou Gerstner in 2002, Palmisano transformed the company from a systems and services firm into a supercomputing and analytics mega-machine. The makeover paid off. Shares have soared 73% during Palmisano's te [read] Keywords: ibm
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Four hotels, five countries, six days
Mon, Oct 24th 2011 7:10p Ed Brill Admittedly, even for me, last week was a little wearying. I've already written about ESLUGsphere in Madrid and the business partner summit in Wroclaw, which were the two main reasons for last week's European visit. I rounded out the week with a visit to Cardiff, Wales, finally completing a tour of the United Kingdom. Though I was only on Welsh soil for 18 hours, I made sure to tick a few boxes -- including some sightseeing of famous vistas that had been used in the filming of Doctor Who. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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"Ask the Product Managers" at Lotusphere 2012?
Sun, Oct 23rd 2011 4:14p Ed Brill Last week, one of my colleagues asked me if we were going to do "Ask the Product Managers" again at Lotusphere 2012. After this year's debut of the session, I was pretty sure I wanted to repeat it...until I was asked to reflect upon it. On the positive side, the session was a good opportunity to meet many of the product managers across the IBM Collaboration Solutions team. We also used it as a way to start punctuating the conference, by having each PM mention something about the conferenc [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Another good event: Central/Eastern Europe collaboration partner summit in Wroclaw
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 3:20p Ed Brill I spent the last couple of days in Wroclaw (pronounced vaguely like "Vrat-slaf"), Poland, with 60 IBM business partners from across central and eastern Europe. To demonstrate the importance of the forum, we brought another 25-ish IBMers (maybe it was more) for sessions, roundtables, and meetings with the various partners from across the region. There was also time for a bit of social business as well, making friends with some of the locals. I've been asked but unable to go to this eve [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Yesterday’s Spanish Lotus Users Group - muy bien!
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 2:18a Ed Brill About seventy people attended yesterday's ESLUGSPHERE event at the IBM Forum in Madrid. Like other user groups around the world, the Spanish team and I have been able to build a good relationship over the last few years, thus when they asked if I would join the agenda, I was happy to do so. The weather in Madrid is glorious this autumn, and on Sunday night, several of us dined al fresco at a small Andalucian restaurant on a residential street. I was happy to be off the tourist trail (though [read] Keywords: connections
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The Apache Software Foundation Statement on Apache OpenOffice.org
Fri, Oct 14th 2011 9:07a Ed Brill I like this assertiveness by the Apache Software Foundation -- taking what seems to be a pretty emotional discussion around where OpenOffice is going and puts it into plain and simple terms.As with many highly-visible products, there has been speculation and conjecture about the future of OpenOffice.org at Apache. More recently, destructive statements have been published by both members of the greater FOSS community and former contributors to the original OpenOffice.org product, suggesting that [read] Keywords: ibm
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Next week: Open Mic on Lotus Notes Traveler, Wednesday 12 October
Fri, Oct 7th 2011 4:00a Ed Brill I should probably blog these more often, as the last one on Citrix got very good response from edbrill.com readers. You are invited to join an Open Mic Webcast on "What's the Latest with Lotus Notes Traveler?" to be held Wednesday, October 12th at 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC or GMT -4) for one hour. In the first half hour, we will share a presentation discussing Traveler features and functions. The second half of the Webcast will focus on your questions to be answered by a panel of IBM Develo [read] Keywords: ibm
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Roadmap for Notes/Domino from here
Thu, Oct 6th 2011 9:20a Ed Brill Now that we've shipped Notes/Domino 8.5.3, there seems to be some confusion about what comes next on the Notes/Domino roadmap. We'll be discussing this in detail next week with an initial group of customers at our Leadership Alliance event, and of course, at Lotusphere 2012. But to clarify for now since there is discussion -- We are building a feature release for 2012. It won't be called Notes/Domino 9; it will be called Notes/Domino something (let's say "foo" for now). Architecturally, [read] Keywords: domino
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Some great new ibm.com resources for Notes/Domino 8.5.3
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 3:40p Ed Brill Today's delivery of Notes/Domino 8.5.3 included lots of great new technology, but was also a launching pad for a number of new marketing pieces. Here are some useful resources that go hand-in-glove with today's announcement: The Notes/Domino 8.5 product page on ibm.com has been updated with all sorts of 8.5.3 information The "test drive" page on ibm.com has been updated to show that the trial versions are available (including, once again, Domino server), and the plug-ins to use IBM Connecti [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New license terms in Notes/Domino 8.5.3, including changes to Domino Express
Tue, Oct 4th 2011 9:30a Ed Brill In addition to new entitlements and new features, Notes/Domino 8.5.3 has a completely re-written set of license agreements. Earlier this year, IBM legal and operations commenced a set of activities to simplify IBM software licensing. The goal was to make the license text much clearer in terms of what is NOT allowed, as opposed to trying to document what IS allowed. We got rid of a lot -- historical clauses, positive and negative opposites, extraneous terminology. Thus, the new licenses are a lot [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Mobile collaboration leadership
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 8:50p Ed Brill About a year ago, I declared that IBM had turned the corner from follower to leader in the mobile space. I was mocked for the statement, but not only do I stand by it, I feel like we are even further out front now. How so? I had the opportunity today to present a slide showing our current and planned future device support for IBM collaboration and Lotus solutions on the relevant enterprise mobile platforms -- Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia. It's pretty impressive: Now, of course [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Open Mic webcast this Wednesday, Notes in Citrix environments
Sat, Sep 24th 2011 5:00p Ed Brill I get lots of questions about Notes and virtualization approaches, with Citrix continuing to be the primary requested environment. This week, our experts will be hosting an open mic on the topic...IBM will host an Open Mic webcast with Lotus Development and Support Engineers on 28 September 2011. The topic will be "IBM Lotus Notes in Citrix environments." Date: 28 September 2011 Time: 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutesLink: Open Mic Webcast: IBM Lotus Notes in Citrix envir [read] Keywords: domino
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