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84	New Domino CAL pricing is fully in effect as of today Tue, Feb 9th 2010 8:03a   Ed Brill In October, IBM announced that licensing for Lotus Notes/Domino would be changing. We announced a client access license model for Domino, replacing various software licensing schemes for Lotus Notes, iNotes, Domino Designer, and Notes Traveler. The two client access licenses defined are the Domino Messaging CAL and the Domino Enterprise CAL. Domino Designer became a free/entitled product -- free to download and test, entitled in the Domino CAL to connect to Domino. Lotus Mobile Connect's cli [read] Keywords: collaboration domino ibm inotes lotus notes notesdomino traveler enterprise mobile server
49	Lotusphere 2010: Lotus Knows how to help you tell your story Tue, Feb 9th 2010 7:31a   Ed Brill Somewhere in the myriad of offers, giveaways, and promotions at Lotusphere, I missed one we were running ourselves. I am a huge fan of sites that allow you to create photo books out of digital images, and mypublisher.com and I are good friends. I've tried Snapfish, iPhoto books, and others. A site that wasn't on my radar until today is panraven.com. IBM partnered with Panraven to help you tell your story from Lotusphere 2010 -- and we'll even buy the book. Now Lotus knows [read] Keywords: ibm lotus lotusphere lotusphere2010 application
139	Richard Schwartz: Better Late Than Never, My Take On Lotusphere 2010 And Project Vulcan Mon, Feb 8th 2010 2:20p   Ed Brill I've read a ton of blog postings on IBM Project Vulcan since Lotusphere a few weeks ago... perhaps because of the iterative thinking in the community, or time to reflect, Richard Schwartz's analysis seems to me to be a good read on the project:Five years ago, IBM introduced something with the potential to be quite revolutionary, but they saw that potential could not be realized on its own. They melded activity-centric collaboration into their Connections offering in order to tie a revolutionary [read] Keywords: collaboration connections domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes community facebook social software
189	Symphony 3.0 beta now available Thu, Feb 4th 2010 2:32a   Ed Brill As promised at Lotusphere, the beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0 is now available on symphony.lotus.com... Key new features in Symphony 3.0: VB Macros support ODF 1.2 support for improved file interoperability embedded audio/video allows users to add media directly to slides, documents and sheets autotext support to create "chunks" of text that are used frequently and quickly inserted digital signatures redline support --- shows edits made to document usability enhancements I know some are askin [read] Keywords: lotus lotusphere odf symphony microsoft openoffice
107	Michael Sampson: Lotus roadmap and user adoption surveys Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 7:00p   Ed Brill Michael Sampson looks to me like he can see the future. Though he was never briefed on what was coming at Lotusphere 2010, in January, he published a white paper on the Lotus roadmap:Lotus Notes has been around for a long time. Since its release in 1989 it has always been viewed as a "different" piece of technology, loved by some people and reviled by others. It takes a different approach to information management and collaboration tasks, it looks different from the standard Microsoft offering [read] Keywords: collaboration connections domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes quickr community microsoft sharepoint
229	From a recent LinkedIn conversation about Notes to Exchange migrations Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 6:50p   Ed Brill I think I'm not allowed to quote LinkedIn discussions from membership groups in public, but there are some real quotable comments in this thread. The original poster basically asks for experiences with Notes to Exchange migration. Most of the reply comments say, essentially, don't do it -- you won't be successful, it will cost more than you anticipated, and in one case, we decided not to after all our study. The only "dissent", if you can call it that, is a person who shares Microsoft party l [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes exchange exchange linkedin microsoft
73	Robert R Taylor Network: Website and Lotusphere video Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 5:50p   Ed Brill So I had no idea about this during Lotusphere but it's pretty cool. A group of high school and college interns sponsored by the Robert R Taylor Network were at Lotusphere... and they've built a whole website using Lotus Foundations, the IBM client for Smart Work (Notes+Symphony on Linux), and Virtual Bridges. Another great project to get student populations involved with Lotus software... This video was recorded at Lotusphere: and talks about how they are developing RRTN.net. [read] Keywords: foundations ibm lotus lotusphere notes symphony application linux network
33	Lotusphere Comes to You: Yo voy a España Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 3:20p   Ed Brill Sí, es la verdad -- yo iré a en Madrid y Barcelona en Marzo. Pero, es posible que estoy muy loco. Voy a entregar mi presentación en español. Hablo español como un niño Mexicano, pero tengo seis semanas que practicar. (Translation: Yes, it's true -- I'm going to "Lotusphere Comes to You in Madrid and Barcelona in March. But it's possible that I'm crazy. I'm going to deliver my presentation in Spanish. I speak Spanish like a Mexican child, but I have six weeks to pract [read] Keywords: lotusphere
64	Phil Simon: Technology Today podcast with Ed Brill Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 8:00a   Ed Brill A few weeks ago, Phil Simon wrote a blog entry called "When it's time to abandon ship", where he discussed the new FewClix plug-in for Notes. His general point -- why would anyone use a plug-in to address "basic features, such as search and performance?" I am not sure that is how FewClix is positioned -- I met with Synaptris at Lotusphere and thought FewClix was pretty cool. It's not for everyone, but it does have an executive dashboard-like feel about it, and some real clean navigation an [read] Keywords: ibm lotus lotusnotes lotusphere notes notesdomino application community podcast
148	Lotusphere 2010: An oral history of Lotus Notes / the first 20 years Mon, Feb 1st 2010 4:00p   Ed Brill I have been remiss in not posting our slides from this session. While I believe that the presentation was one of those "Lotusphere moments" that are hard to recreate, I will deliver versions of this as part of presentations at upcoming Lotusphere Comes to You events in Munich and Dusseldorf....and maybe other locations. For the rest of you, it's worth sharing what Scott Souder and I did. Lotusphere 2010: An Oral History Of Ibm Lotus Notes First 20 YearsView more presentations from Ed Brill [read] Keywords: ibm ldd lotus lotusphere notes R5 ray ozzie application bug email