At Lotusphere 2010 yesterday, IBM announced the upcoming beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0, coming in February. Symphony 3.0 is based on the OpenOffice.org version 3 codebase, with a refined user interface, more features, support for Visual Basic macros, and the latest Open Document Formats. Symphony 3.0 marks the first major release of Symphony since 2008, and demonstrates IBM's ongoing commitment to the Symphony project. Be ready to check out this beta in a week or so, or if you are at Lotusphere, stop by the Symphony labs to check out the latest. Very good effort to bring this product forward.
We also demonstrated Project Concord, a set of collaborative web editors that will be part of the new LotusLive Labs in Q2 2010. Project Concord is something I've talked to customers about in concept over the last year or so -- that when we started working on productivity as a set of web tools, we weren't just going to deliver yet another reinvented word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool. Instead, this project demonstrates some very cool collaborative document editing, contextual commenting, smart tables, and task and attention management. It is designed to work with installed editors (e.g. Symphony), browser users, and even mobile users.
Symphony 3.0 and Project Concord are part of our general theme at Lotusphere 2010 of showing more technology, even if it is in early "lab" form. LotusLive Labs is intended to be an incubator for new cloud-based capabilities, and Project Concord is just one of those. For those at Lotusphere interested in more, check your conference guide for the Tuesday morning session on LotusLive Labs.
Lotusphere Comes to You St Louis, Tuesday
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 9:01p Ed Brill After four international trips, it will be nice to finally be going a short hop within the same time zone for Tuesday, at Lotusphere Comes to You in St. Louis. I will be delivering the keynote as well as the Notes/Domino strategy presentation, and yes, I'll remember to do it in English this time. Looking ahead into April, I will be doing the same pair of presentations at the LCTY in Toronto on April 22nd. There are many more dates and cities out there for LCTY in North America, and my tea [read] Keywords: domino
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Techworld: Home grown eMed app gets Web 2.0 refresh
Tue, Mar 16th 2010 7:54a Ed Brill A story that will surprise from down under...The University of NSW Faculty of Medicine has developed an in-house student management system, dubbed eMed, which has remained cost competitive with commercial software for seven years and is now being extended into the Web 2.0 paradigm. As the core internal undergraduate application for some 1500 students across six years, eMed has iterated through several major releases. IT manager Luc Betbeder said there was nothing that "spoke our language [read] Keywords: admin
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Upcoming Lotus Education online training webinars: XPages, composite apps, upgrading
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 10:50p Ed Brill Lotus Education is trying something new -- in-depth, detailed training classes delivered as live online webinars. The cost to attend is fairly inexpensive, yet the benefit is direct access to the experts and practitioners from across IBM Lotus to capture their real-world experiences. Four such webinars are scheduled, follow the links for details: STM01 -- Demystifying Sametime 8.5 Webinar â¨When : Thursday March 25th, 11am -- 2:30pm EST â¨Speakers : Wes Morgan, Michael Herring, [read] Keywords: domino
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My week in Spain for LCTY
Sat, Mar 13th 2010 6:52p Ed Brill It's all over but the frequent flyer mile posting -- I'm back from a very quick tour of Lotusphere Comes to You in Madrid and Barcelona. Family commitments drove me to rush right back from Barcelona, one of my favorite cities in the world, but it was still a great week and only makes me want to return sooner rather than later. The IBM Spain team put together two excellent LCTY events this past week. Both were well-organized, professionally-run, and had great food and venues. More important [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Check out a new developerWorks article about Notes Traveler 8.5.1 performance
Sat, Mar 13th 2010 6:46p Ed Brill Some useful tips on configuring Lotus Notes Traveler in your 8.5.1 environment, and how well it works...This article reports IBM® Lotus® Notes® Traveler 8.5.1 performance results for Microsoft® Windows® 64-bit operating systems. In addition, it compares the performances of Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 (64-bit) server and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 (64-bit) server. Link: ibm.com developerWorks: IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 performance > (Thanks, Jan) [read] Keywords: ibm
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Alistair Rennie podcast on LotusUserGroup.org
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 4:30p Ed Brill Alistair Rennie has been the general manager of Lotus software for about sixty days. In this podcast, recorded last week, Alistair debriefs on Lotusphere, talks about Project Vulcan, and looks ahead in the collaboration and productivity market. Well worth a 20 minute listen.LotusUserGroup.org caught up with Alistair Rennie, General Manager of Lotus Software at IBM, and we recorded the whole conversation for you to hear. Listen in to hear what he finds matters most in his new position and what [read] Keywords: collaboration
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