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Notes 8.5 Announced and Released at MacWorld
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Merry Christmas from the Lotus Position
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Email is Mission Critical - The Stats are Compelling
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Social Networking Etiquette - Two Great Articles
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Cloud Computing Article - Preview
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Recession IT Spending Prioritisation - Collaboration!
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Facebook Social Networking Visualisation - Project Palantir
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Ed Brill in Oz - Announcements!
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Free Lotus Notes 8.x Signature Utility
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Big News Day in the Lotus World…
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Microsoft are targeting 5 Million Notes Accounts this next year
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What will Microsoft “Midori” mean to Lotus
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IE8 Beta & iNotes
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Google Chrome, Ed Visiting Australia & Australian IBM Strikes
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The Subtext from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
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The Power of the Blog & Microsoft Sphere
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ASUS Eee Laptop… Cool for kids
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Notes 8.5 Announced and Released at MacWorld 
Wed, Jan 7th 2009 1:30a Glenn Irvine
Notes 8.5 has been released into Electronic General Availability (eGA), and I’m downloading the client as we speak.
I noticed the announcement at MacWorld today emphasised not only the release of 8.5, but also the free Lotus Symphony applications (1.2.1)
Ed Brill has the MacWorld Lotus Presentation on his Blog. Here’s a link.
So the wait is over… You can download the new client and the Domino Server now!
Look forward to giving it a quick review in the next week.
Regards,
Glenn [read] Keywords: domino
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Merry Christmas from the Lotus Position
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 5:05a Glenn Irvine
I’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a successful New Year.
I hope you all enjoy the season’s festivities, and have a safe break leading into 2009.
All the best…
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
Posted in Blog Tagged: Christmas Message, Glenn Irvine, Lotus Position [read] Keywords: lotus
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Email is Mission Critical - The Stats are Compelling
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 3:28a Glenn Irvine
In a recent Radicati release, stats from the study ”Messaging & Collaboration - Business User Survey, 2008” show that corporate users on average are spending up to 25% of their working day sending and receiving email, receiving over 100 emails a day and sending 38 on average.
With a quarter of the average person’s working day spent handling email, how can any IT Infrastructure Business unit ignore that Email is mission critical to most corporate organisations. Yet, that is [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Networking Etiquette - Two Great Articles
Sun, Dec 7th 2008 9:08p Glenn Irvine
Two great articles in CIO Magazine this week outline the Dos and Don’ts for using LinkedIn and Facebook.
Interestingly, these are the two Social Networking technologies that I predominantly use on a day to day basis.
Like many, I largely have LinkedIn for managing my purely professional network; suppliers, clients, vendors, industry colleagues etc. Facebook on the other hand extends into my social circles, but maintains a somewhat professional face. (pardon the pun)
The two articles in CIO [read] Keywords: lotus
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Cloud Computing Article - Preview
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 7:28a Glenn Irvine
I was asked to prepare an article on the Cloud Computing phenomenon that has captured the imagination of our industry for the Eos Solutions Newsletter this month.
Thought it wouldn’t hurt providing the readers of this Blog with a sneak preview…
I’ve also added a quick survey poll at the end of the article to see if there is much use of Cloud Computing Services at this point in time.
Cloud Computing - An evolutionary step for our Industry
The ICT industry is awash with talk abou [read] Keywords: bluehouse
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Recession IT Spending Prioritisation - Collaboration!
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:29a Glenn Irvine
I liked this article in CIO Magazine that listed some of the best methods for prioritising IT Spending during a recession.
For many of us, it goes without saying that implementing sound Collaboration strategies and tools that support our workforce, leads to significant cost savings, and something that is not always considered during recessionary times, employee satisfaction.
The following excerpt from the article paints the picture…
“Collaborate Without Collocation
New and improved t [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Facebook Social Networking Visualisation - Project Palantir
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 7:29a Glenn Irvine
This is an interesting Visualisation demo for Facebook usage.
Have a look at the video demonstrating communications and volumes of comms between the various places on the globe.
Interesting to note the large tracks of this planet that still do not exhibit much traffic on the web, or more specifically, have not evolved to significant Social networking use.
I also couldn’t help but like the Project title… Speaks to my LOTR interest. Clever title.
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@the [read] Keywords: lotus
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Notes on Nokia
Sun, Nov 23rd 2008 9:28p Glenn Irvine
Ed Brill was first to break this news, but it has now made it to the Australian News in Australian IT this morning.
Good to see Nokia supporting the Lotus Traveller product for providing Notes on Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices.
Mobile PIM Applications are mainstream these days… I look forward to more announcements like these.
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
Posted in Blog, Commentary, Media Tagged: Australian IT, Ed Brill, Glenn Irvine, Lotus Position, Lotus Trave [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ed Brill in Oz - Announcements!
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 11:48p Glenn Irvine
We had Ed Brill visit us in ’sunny’ Brisbane yesterday, and he presented to a local User Group meeting.
Always great to have Ed drop in, he has great insights into the Lotus machine.
Of interest were the forecasted launches of Notes Domino 8.5 next month (yes December), and the release of Atlantic (SAP integration in Notes) in March next year. Both of which will have significant interest in the local Lotus market.
Some of the features presented by Ed at the PLUG meeting will be wel [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Telstra & Microsoft Partner for SaaS in Australia
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 12:09a Glenn Irvine
This is a big one for the Lotus Community in Australia.
ARN - Telstra and Microsoft forge alliance
Telstra partnering with Microsoft to deliver hosted Exchange, Sharepoint, and Unified Communications will be a big blow to IBM’s efforts.
The increased sales coverage, and scalability cost advantages with a quick go-to-market strategy will be very hard to counter.
Microsoft is moving fast with alliances in Australia, including incubator efforts with organisations like iLab in Queensland usin [read] Keywords: ibm
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President Obama’s Technology Vision
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 11:29p Glenn Irvine
With a decisive victory for Barrack Obama looking assured in the US Presidential Election today, I thought it might be worthwhile looking at his Technology Vision, as this will no doubt impact our industry globally.
Here are a few elements from Obama’s website (Policy/Platform) - http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
Some main points worth considering:
He plans to appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Obama will revolutionise Government’s use of technol [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Bluehouse, MS Azure, and LinkedIn Apps
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 11:48p Glenn Irvine
It’s been a while since I have blogged with work consuming me for the last 2 weeks, but main news items of interest during this time is the topic for today.
I’m interested to see the launch of the Lotus Bluehouse SaaS offering and the announcements of Microsoft’s New Azure O/S for the cloud, and will be interested to see how both of these offerings will translate to the reseller community.
Much of this heralds a future that may not favour those software resellers that can not e [read] Keywords: bluehouse
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If Malcolm Turnbull is on Twitter…
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 1:29a Glenn Irvine
A news article today advised that Australian Federal Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Turnbull has just joined twitter, and after I started following him on the service (noticing he was at Question Time in Parliament, having updated from there via the web), thought that if the Leader of the Opposition can get his head around some of these social technologies, what is stopping most of Corporate Australia’s Executives?
I appreciate the political imperative to be in touch with the younger de [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Importance of Mobility for Social Computing
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 8:48p Glenn Irvine
In a recent online survey conducted by ABI Research results showed that at least 46 percent (nearly half) were accessing Social Network Technologies by their mobile devices with strong results for MySpace and Facebook eclipsing any other technology.
I feel this is strong evidence for a need to seriously consider pervasive devices when implementing Social Technology initiatives, and indeed in the design of the UIs for the products.
I know both Facebook and WordPress have already developed iPhone [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Releases Bluehouse SaaS Offering into Public Beta
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 11:30p Glenn Irvine
Media outlets have announced today that IBM has released the Cloud-based “Bluehouse” offering into a free Public Beta.
The trial Beta period is expected to run for a few months and then users will be converted to subscriptions.
The subscription pricing has not been released at this stage.
I expect there will be some interest from IBM’s channel partners about an offering of this nature. Will it be offered through the channel, or is a direct model only being considered?
Access to [read] Keywords: bluehouse
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Socialtext Launches 3.0 - Serious Social Computing Technology
Sun, Oct 5th 2008 9:28p Glenn Irvine
Socialtext released 3.0 late last week, with 2 new product offerings (Dashboard & People).
Quite an impressive product lineup now.
In particular, I like the licensing models and appliance approach presented by Socialtext, and expect this will extend to the new offering.
I’m keen to see what will be offered with the additional products here. IBM could learn a thing or two from the licensing models offered by Socialtext. Appliances make the configuration issues easier to digest by the cl [read] Keywords: ibm
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Free Lotus Notes 8.x Signature Utility
Mon, Sep 29th 2008 9:48p Glenn Irvine
Eos Solutions has released a free Signature applet for Lotus Notes 8.x
This utility allows administrators to provide a customised HTML Corporate Signature which can be modified to suit the organisation’s requirements.
You can download the Signature here!
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
Posted in Commentary, Uncategorized Tagged: Email Signature, Eos Solutions, Glenn Irvine, Lotus Position, Utility [read] Keywords: lotus
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Oracle Launches Collaborative Suite - Beehive
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 8:48a Glenn Irvine
Oracle have announced their new Collaborative Suite, “Beehive” at its Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week.
Oracle president Charles Phillips, delivering the morning’s opening keynote address, acknowledged some may be puzzled by Oracle’s decision to field a communications and collaboration product when there are so many already on the market. But he said many businesses have a hodgepodge of disparate e-mail, instant messaging, calendar and collaboration [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Launches Social Computing Think Tank at MIT
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 10:12a Glenn Irvine
In the news today in Australia is the Launch by IBM of a centre for research into Social Computing & Technologies at MIT called the Centre for Social Software.
Reseachers from around the Globe, including many of IBM’s Lotus Labs in Cambridge, Tokyo, Beijing, Haifa, San Jose & New York, will be able to do research there.
An element that will be drawn from the centre is the cultural context of social technologies.
Looks like an interesting Centre… I’ll be keen to see what [read] Keywords: ibm
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Google Mindreading - Beyond Collaboration
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 8:53a Glenn Irvine
So Google has plans to turn Search Engines into Mind Readers. An article on News.com.au on Sunday quoted Engineering Director for Google Australia, Alan Noble, outlining the future plans for this search method, and stated that “Web search is about 10% solved”.
It is intriguing to consider how this may even be considered, and the potential negative aspects that will no doubt follow.
If you feel like a laugh, have a look at the FAQ on Google’s website on an “Option” f [read] Keywords: collaboration
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eReader Reviews - Plastic Logic Product demonstrated at DEMOFall08 
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 8:28a Glenn Irvine
It is frightening how much like a magazine, electronic readers are getting.
Have a look at this reader being demonstrated at DEMOFall08.
I’ve been keeping an eye on eReaders ever since the release of Amazon’s Kindle, and feel they are getting very close to a device I could see myself using a lot.
The following video gives you a better look at the device.
It is not long now before this reader technology reaches a critical point in the development cycle and becomes a significant disr [read] Keywords: development
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How Green is your Workflow - A Government Mandate!
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 9:29p Glenn Irvine
I am attending a Government coordinated Green IT Taskforce meeting today, (Which, by the way, is a very hot topic in Public Sector circles), and I can’t help thinking that while a lot of the Green IT agenda focuses on reducing the carbon footprint of our industry (recycling friendly components, lower energy consumption, etc), not enough emphasis is placed on the ‘Green’ benefits of workflow solutions.
So if nothing else in today’s meeting, I would really like to get one p [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Google Chrome, Ed Visiting Australia & Australian IBM Strikes
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 12:31a Glenn Irvine
The Browser wars are hotting up with Microsoft releasing their IE8 Beta this week and now Google letting slip that a Beta of their new browser dubbed “Chrome” will hit the market today.
If you haven’t seen the early media release in cartoon format for Chrome. Have a look here.
IE8 is getting hammered on memory use, and I must admit I have seen it. The security model is very green as well, as sites that need authentication (like internet banking) keep requesting re-authenticatio [read] Keywords: ibm
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IE8 Beta & iNotes
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 10:29p Glenn Irvine
Just downloaded the IE8 Beta and thought I’d run it through it’s paces.
If you have a look at the features video that Microsoft Communications runs, there are some nice features, like the following.
Accelerators - Speed access to context sensitive services (Ebay, Maps, Search, Wiki, Translation etc)
Webslices - Keeping track of specific content in realtime, like Ebay auctions, Blogs, RSS etc
Search Suggestions - speeding search bar use
One Click favourites - for faster loading
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MIT Sloan Report: An Inside View of IBM’s Innovation Jam
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 8:49p Glenn Irvine
MIT Sloan has released a report titled: “An Inside View of IBM’s Innovation Jam“.
This report is a fascinating insight into the reason why IBM has such a great record in Innovation and their huge production of Patents. The process is detailed, and I’m sure many organisations could learn something about how they tackle innovation from the report.
The complete text of the report is freely available for the MIT Sloane website on the link above.
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
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Who better to advertise Microsoft Vista, than the Guy with the Show about Nothing!
Sun, Aug 24th 2008 2:49a Glenn Irvine
A news article doing the rounds today, is that Microsoft is about to embark on a $300M advertising campaign to boost the image of Windows Vista, and they have chosen Jerry Seinfeld to anchor the effort!
How ironic… that they choose the guy who came to fame with a show about nothing!
I couldn’t think of a more fitting personality. Add to that the sarcastic, cynical view of the World that Jerry brings to humour, and that he is a stand up comedian. I just have to say “What a joke! [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Australian CIO Magazine Highlights IBM Social Computing
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 8:33a Glenn Irvine
An article published in CIO Magazine this week looks at the Social Networking Technologies in use today and the Business benefit potentials.
IBM’s Bluepages experience and the resultant Lotus Connections Product are featured well in the article.
It’s great to see this level of profile for the actual business benefits of these technologies in a local magazine.
Well done to the IBM Marketing people… It’s nice to see this highlighted to this particular audience.
Regards,
Gle [read] Keywords: connections
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TED.com Collaboration Thread Presentations
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 4:50p Glenn Irvine
If you are a keen follower of all things happening in the Collaboration technology space… You should have a good look at TED.com.
This website provides videos from conferences under the headings of “Technology, Entertainment & Design” (Thus the TED), and they allow you to register and then “favourite” various Themes.
In particular “The Rise of Collaboration” is one worth watching. They have very informative presentations, and some interesting angles, [read] Keywords: collaboration
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First Post from the iPhone Applet
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 8:52a Glenn Irvine
I have written this post to the Blog from an applet that WordPress have produced for the iPhone. Like all things Apple, it has a very useable interface. Allowing me to not only enter the Title and Body, but a simple selection method for Categories & Tags as well.
Overall, I’m quite impressed with it. Given 3G access, it means I can post to the Blog from almost anywhere.
Very Nice.
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
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Australian Collaboration Market Survey Released
Sun, Aug 17th 2008 10:49p Glenn Irvine
Eos Solutions have released a Market Survey focusing on Collaboration Technologies in the Australian Mid-Market.
Combined with a recent IBM Survey, the highlights are as follows:
Cost efficiency is a higher priority in smaller organisations, as opposed to growth through innovation in larger organisations;
IT management consistently rates the promotion of collaboration between IT and business units among their highest priorities;
Enterprise wide integration and collaboration are emerging as esse [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Computing in Universities - Academic Initiative
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 8:29p Glenn Irvine
I sat on an ICT Industry Advisory Board meeting for a local university yesterday, and when the subject came up about vendor support for academic initiatives wasn’t too surprised to hear the strong Microsoft sentiment around the table (I threw in the IBM name valiantly…)
The potential for using Lotus Connections in Universities is significant for seeding the market. IBM needs to seriously consider offering this through the Academic Initiative program to the Universities to gain mindsh [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Alphaworks: Social Accessibility Project
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 10:48p Glenn Irvine
I thought I would give the Alphaworks Project sited in the title of this entry a quick rap, as a great example of social computing paradigms being put to a very worthy business & social purpose.
The IBM Alphaworks “Social Accessibility Project” from the Labs in Tokyo is all about creating a collaborative environment that enhances the experience of disabled people to access all forms of Web content. Engaging Supporters (a bit like Wikipedia) to brainstorm and suggest improvements [read] Keywords: forms
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Queensland State Government Considering Open Source Future
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 8:30a Glenn Irvine
The Queensland State Government CIO’s Office has circulated a Discussion Paper in the local Industry, looking for commentary about an Open Source Future for the State Government. Queensland has a State Government Workforce nearing 200,000 and considerations for Open Source is always of interest to the Lotus Community.
IBM’s Strategic decision to build on and support Open Source Foundations (Eclipse Development platform, Support for Linux, Lotus Symphony, Lotus Foundations etc) has a [read] Keywords: foundations
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What will Microsoft “Midori” mean to Lotus
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 11:29p Glenn Irvine
Recent discussion around the still somewhat “Under Wraps” project code-named Midori at Microsoft is suggesting a Microsoft Future “Post-Windows”. This, and the rise of industry interest in Virtiualisation, SaaS, and Cloud Computing, all point to a near-term future where consumption of software services will go through a significant disrupting period that will affect us all.
The Midori research is Microsoft’s effort at potentially making significant inroads into mar [read] Keywords: blue house
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The Power of the Blog & Microsoft Sphere
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 9:48p Glenn Irvine
I am a day short of the very first month of operating the Lotus Position Blog, and am surprised to see that we have had over 1275 hits in that month, on a topic that is fairly niche in scope. Sites like LotusPlanet.org that are Blog agrregators lend a tremendous amount of support for readership in this regard, demonstrating how effective these forms of social computing can be.
As I continue this latest experiment in the Social Computing Paradigm, I find the nuances of involvement that were unexp [read] Keywords: forms
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The Subtext from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Sun, Jul 27th 2008 8:49p Glenn Irvine
A very interesting article out by AMR Research, titled “Not Swag: Six Takeaways from Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference” outlines 6 key issues that the analyst feels either needs to be addressed or Microsoft Partners need to take on board.
They are:
A need to return to innovation rather than following innovation
Deliberate dependency on the channel
Partners need to adapt to the new models of Microsoft business (esp. SaaS)
Sharepoint, Sharepoint, and more Sharepoint
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Microsoft are targeting 5 Million Notes Accounts this next year
Fri, Jul 25th 2008 8:31a Glenn Irvine
I noticed an article today on NetworkWorld where the COO of Microsoft, Kevin Turner stated to a Financial Analysts Annual Meeting, that they would be targeting 5 Million Seats of Lotus Notes Customers this next year.
It looks like the competitive scene between IBM and Microsoft is heating up again with both Vendors claiming Marketshare gains last year.
And I know both have competitive campaigns and programs focusing on this core area of the market. It’s going to be an interesting ride in [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Advertising… Time for a new Idea
Tue, Jul 22nd 2008 10:32a Glenn Irvine
I saw the recently released Lotus Collaboration Advert from the UK on Ed’s Blog this morning, and after my initial giggle (I really laughed at the guy chewing on the arm bones), and reviewing many of the comments on the Blog Article, I have come to the realisation that IBM Advertising has lost it’s way.
First the “Codernauts” then the “Codernauts 2.0” as I call Ned & Gil, rarely if ever do we see the product (a common complaint from the Lotus Blogger Commu [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Events Section launch on “The Lotus Position”
Tue, Jul 22nd 2008 3:36a Glenn Irvine
I’ve added a page to this blog for any Lotus events in the Region.
Have a look under “lotus events” and they will be listed in the right-hand column as they are published.
I’ve kicked it off with the Lotus Collaboration & Portal Technical University coming to Sydney, Australia in September.
http://www.thelotusposition.net/apac-events/
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
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Local Telco Meltdown… Time to reconsider the Grid Design
Sun, Jul 20th 2008 11:30p Glenn Irvine
More than a million East Coast Australians were without Telco services (Mobile, Internet, Land Line, ATM, ETFPOS) for half a day late last week because of a simple cable cutting beside a residential road. All the finger pointing that is now going on in the washup does nothing to address the fact that a single cable being cut can affect so many users.
When the early Internet was designed by DARPA, one of it’s initial design considerations was survivability of communications (in those days t [read] Keywords: mobile
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Project Atlantic - An Executive Discussion
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 12:24a Glenn Irvine
I was looking at the new release on the Project Atlantic Website, and feel that the early release of some of the concept visuals is just enough to start discussions with key Executives who own the SAP and possibly the Notes Domino environments.
I know that I have often butted heads with the SAP effort in an organisation when discussing WebSphere Portal, but the expected integrations in Notes Domino that is being suggested in Project Atlantic is very exciting.
These future developments are just t [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Social Computing Industry Happenings, SocialText & the Gartner View
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 11:09p Glenn Irvine
I was contemplating Mr Lepofsky’s move to SocialText, and started investigating the organisation, which led to a few discoveries. First - There is an interesting initiative underway between IBM and SocialText to integrate the SocialText Workspace with the Lotus Connections Product.
I will be trying the 14 day trial of SocialText Workspace to better understand the synergies here.
On the page of SocialText’s website that described the collaboration with IBM, there is a reference to G [read] Keywords: collaboration
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ASUS Eee Laptop… Cool for kids
Sat, Jul 12th 2008 11:06p Glenn Irvine
A friend showed me her new ASUS Eee Laptop PC yesterday and I think they are a great idea for children.
She is a School Teacher and they are becoming very popular in that industry.
Solid State Drive, pre-loaded software including Open Office and Mozilla Browser, Games and Utilities for the built in WebCam and it is Wireless Enabled.
Quite a rugged device (also good for kids) and would easily fit in a school bag with not too much weight. The Linux O/S may limit the number of applications you can [read] Keywords: notes
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iPhone 2 iWoes… and Google Lively Early Review
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 3:28a Glenn Irvine
Well the iPhone launch business day is almost done here in Australia, and there are some very tired Telco franchise employees out there.
I’m disappointed that the 16GB version of the phone ran out of stock at most stores very quickly, so I am on a waitlist. (I’m told next week some time). Some of the early risers waited in the stores for up to 4 hours (I didn’t have that long a wait), however my first post to the Lotus Position via 3G on an iPhone will have to wait until next w [read] Keywords: lotus
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Big News Day in the Lotus World…
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 8:47a Glenn Irvine
First the news that Alan Lepofsky is leaving IBM and off to SocialText, and I attended a Distributor Launch event for Foundations, read an interesting article on “The six commandments of social networking at work” on ComputerWorld, and we are gearing up for the launch of the iPhone here in Australia tomorrow morning. (Backing up my current iPhone tonight in anticipation of picking up my new 3G model in the morning.)
All the best to Alan… I have followed his blog second only to [read] Keywords: foundations
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Centrelink staying with Lotus… Good News for the Australian Lotus Community
Wed, Jul 9th 2008 1:45a Glenn Irvine
The current news that Centrelink (Australia’s Social Security Organisation) has decided to stay with the Lotus Notes Platform [Article in Australian IT] is a significant one for the Australian Lotus Community.
Centrelink is one of the largest Notes Houses in the country, and a shift away would have sent a signal through the market.
The decision does however, highlight that Notes Domino is far more than just email. The installed Domino Application base in Centrelink is a very serious factor [read] Keywords: domino
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CTO’s the Missing Role
Mon, Jul 7th 2008 1:23a Glenn Irvine
In my daily role in Business Development, I constantly see a lot of waste in Tender processes at the extreme level. So much research leading to technology decisions is done by Tender/RFO/RFI/RFx… And in many cases the very nature of the tender process prevents the organisation from shifting course mid-stream based on new-found knowledge, and to the ICT idustry, it is a very wasteful process.
I feel much of this waste could be avoided by redirecting the Tender effort into a properly run and [read] Keywords: document
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Microsoft promises 4 patches next week… or you could move to Domino.
Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 9:31p Glenn Irvine
Why do organisations continually put up with the amount of patching that Exchange and the Microsoft stack requires.
Try a robust, secure, solid alternative! … Domino
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=870711453&eid=-100
Microsoft to patch Windows 2000, XP, SQL and Exchange servers
All four security updates listed as “important”, the company’s second-highest ranking
Gregg Keizer (Computerworld) 04 July, 2008 [read] Keywords: domino
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Six Megatrends Reshaping Government - Collaboration Mandate!
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 10:44p Glenn Irvine
The following article published in CIO Magazine today discusses the IBM report just released titled “Government 2020 and the Perpetual Collaboration Mandate”.
Another great message to the Public Sector Market. A very large market here in Australia.
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;201607001;pp;1
Six Megatrends Reshaping Government
A new report from IBM warns of the growing global impact of rapid changes in several areas beyon [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Aussies paying five times more… or 50% more
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 11:29p Glenn Irvine
I saw this article in yesterday’s news, and with the Aussie Dollar almost on par with the Greenback at the moment (95.88c in the dollar at the time of posting), thought I would dip my toe in the water and see what the price difference between a single user of Notes is between the US and Australia.
Needless to say I was surprised to see a 50% price differential (Not favouring Australians).
Come on IBM… we love the software, and appreciate the fluctuations of international exchange, bu [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Value of Enterprise Social Computing
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 10:26p Glenn Irvine
If you ever felt you needed to justify to a C-Level Executive the value of Enterprise Social Computing, this article on LinkedIn achieving a US$1B valuation has to be it. That should be good enough to kick-start a serious investigation of Enterprise Social Computing capabilities like Lotus Connections.
Regards,
Glenn
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;2109382942;fp;;fpid;;pf;1
LinkedIn valued at $1 billion
LinkedIn has achieved a $1 billion valuation [read] Keywords: connections
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Ray Ozzie’s Ascendancy at Microsoft… What is in store for us
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 3:00a Glenn Irvine
The following article from ComputerWorld/Network World today highlights that Ray Ozzie is still as sharp as ever, and has a keen eye on the industry. His comments not only affect the future of Microsoft and his view as the new Chief Software Architect, but the industry as a whole…
A careful read will highlight where Lotus needs to focus going forward to remain competitive. Hosted models, SaaS, Social and Cloud Computing are all to be seriously considered in my opinion.
Regards,
Glenn Irvin [read] Keywords: forms
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Welcome to the Lotus Position !!!
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 2:41a Glenn Irvine
Hi there, and welcome to The Lotus Position, an Asia Pacific oriented Blog on all things happening in the IBM Lotus World. I look forward to comments and contributions from the Lotus Community. Contact me on glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net
Regards,
Glenn Irvine
glenn.irvine@thelotusposition.net [read] Keywords: ibm
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