Oh, bugger, I missed the OGS … at least the most important parts, the demos. I saw Michael J. Fox and the end, because I had to bring my wife to the doctor … she has a flu. Damn, but my wife’s health is more important … I told myself every 5 minutes … and the kids sports and music lesson, too. Now I am waiting for the recorded OGS … not there yet. Grrrr. Right now I have to live with second hand reports and I still don’t have all the information’s I need, because I have to do an article for the Swiss Small Business Association. Can somebody please point me to good information’s about the new Notes and Connections stuff? I don’t see the whole picture yet.
Now, what did I got until now. I watched Ed Brills presentation and I think IBM is going in the right direction. Unfortunately, we will not get the completely new client i hoped for, for at least another year, but Social Notes and Domino is one hell of good step towards what I would like Notes to be.
Do away with different types of documents. An email, a letter, an invoice, a complaint a spread sheet, a chat protocol, an SMS or anything else with information in it isn’t something that should appear each in a different application. The means of transportation may be different, but for the user, it is just something that get’s read on the screen (or printed out). I want all that stuff in the same place, but linked to persons, companies, activities, hamsters or what ever. I don’t care, if it is sent by mail or tied to a pigeons leg. But it is important, that I know, where the heck it belongs to and who is involved … and how all this is linked to other things.
What I have seen until now, Notes and even more Connections, are on the right way. I like that … a lot. And the Client looks better.
I have yet to see, how the inbox will be less cluttered with the intelligent sorting gadgets behind it, but it is a start and I see this as a game changer.
What I really would like to have as soon as possible, is Connections with Connections Mail. That does mean, I would have to learn Connections … or I get the stuff of those guys here: Connections Administration Toolkit Now isn’t that cool or what? I just imagine a Collax V Cube with all the Connections and Domino Servers on it. At the same time I would do reusable templates of the virtual machines and we have a plug and play installation with the whole administration through the browser. Have to think about … a lot … makes me dream of a better future.
Me too, I thought about Workplace. I liked it. I thought it wasn’t a bad idea. Was probably ahead of it’s time.
There is one thing, that troubles me. Ed said in his presentation, that they have the highest number of servers out there ever (if I got that right). That does not correspond to our feelings, that IBM is actually loosing customers, or does it? He said too, that they are adding more and more seats in companies above 100’000 users and at the lower end, too. How is that possible? What did he say? The number of servers. NOT the number of customers. If he says though, it is true, but I am (and yours truly probably, too) waiting for: “We have the highest number of CUSTOMERS ever!”
Now, how do I feel with everything I know by now. Mixed. I like the approach, but I don’t like the time frame. I hoped for the big thing, but it did not come. But haste makes waste, but this is another year where partners will move to other pastures and customers will go for the main stream stuff (MS) at any price (they really do, at ANY price. Expensive way of thinking).
I hope I get some more good information in the next few days.
PS: What I really liked would be the functionality of Connections and the ease of use and installation of Domino. But that is too much to ask, I suppose.
Oh my goodness, I have been attacked..
Thu, May 17th 2012 5:54a Christian Tillmanns Ah, probably, don’t know really.
An hour ago I got a mail from Google that this blog could have something bad inside and that they put a warning up.
As an example they gave an url from a post from 2010.
Google gave me enough information to remove the warning and now it’s all up again. BUT! One wonders, if they don’t do this just to get me to use their website management tools.
OK, there were a few responses left from the time, when somebody posted just gibberish. Could that [read] Keywords: google
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Sogeti TeamPark – the first book
Thu, Apr 26th 2012 9:12a Christian Tillmanns Ok, I have done it. I read “From crowd to community” from Sogeti.
Even though Sogeti uses Connections, they don’t mention it once (neither Facebook BTW). That’s understandable, since the book is about the method of how social software works. In the end, I think this first book is helpful. I helps us to understand, how communities work and what we have to tell customers, what they can expect from using social software … and the traps.
Social software isn’t for [read] Keywords: connections
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Showing off at the TopSoft
Wed, Apr 25th 2012 1:33a Christian Tillmanns Collax and Shakehands will be at the TopSoft, the only real IT trade show left in Switzerland. Starts the 9th of May, ends the next day.
I will be there. If you want to see what Collax has to offer, drop in.
Free tickets are available here: http://www.collax.com/page/topsoft2012
We will have a working cluster on site and a lot more to talk about.
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Sogetis TeamPark – a book review … not yet.
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 2:58a Christian Tillmanns I am working my way through Sogetis book “Teampark platform and method“. It’s all about Sogetis approach of introducing IBM Connections.
Sogeti is much more a Microsoft Shop, than IBM but they still use IBM Connections and have even developed bits an pieces for Connections, which from their point of view, are better than the of the standard tools.
And they wrote that book about it. After about two thirds, I am not sure, what they actually want to tell me. Normally 145 pages a [read] Keywords: connections
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From zero to hero in two days
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 6:40a Christian Tillmanns Yes, yes, I know, I always said I hate administration work, but I am a certified Collax V-Family Expert now anyway.
The last two days were packed with excitement. Together with jET Computer Schweiz we have organised the first virtualization course for the Collax V-Family in Switzerland and since I want to eat my own dog food, it was time to dive head first into the KVM virtualization.
First, instead of ESXi, KVM or Hyper-V, even the Collax basic virtualization product, the V-Cube, which is based [read] Keywords: admin
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Windows 8 Preview
Wed, Mar 7th 2012 8:30a Christian Tillmanns I just installed Windows 8 (the Preview). I used Virtual Box. That thing from Oracle isn’t bad at all for what I need. Looks like it is faster than Fusion.
Back to Windows. First impression? A bit of a toy. Second impression? Still a toy. But I am glad the Start button is gone. At least Microsoft thought about a new concept for once.
I tried to use mail, but it want’s an Exchange server. I just couldn’t find a possibility to connect to an IMAP server somewhere, which means, aft [read] Keywords: exchange
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Snow and project management
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 6:01a Christian Tillmanns One week of skiing. Weather was nice, but way too warm. Snow was too wet. I hate skiing in spring, really, I don’t mind – 15 °C but + 5 °C at 2500 m is silly. Days were packed but I still had time to read a book of Clarence (Kelly) Johnson. His work always interested me, because he is one of the most successful aircraft designers. Probably you don’t know his name, but Lockheed’s Skunk Works should be known to everybody. Also the planes he and his team designed:
P38 Lig [read] Keywords: email
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IBMSCfSB … in that case I would have kept LotusLive
Mon, Mar 5th 2012 3:08a Christian Tillmanns IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. One really wonders, what they are smoking and I don’t want some.
I don’t have to go into details, why this isn’t a good name, just one argument. I have troubles to remember it.
But it fit’s into a long line of strange product names coming from IBM.
Even more amazing; it looks like nobody cares. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Oh … now that … bugger …
Tue, Feb 14th 2012 5:12a Christian Tillmanns I am looking into going to the cloud and finding a solution for a small Notes customer. Smart Cloud (TSFKALL – The Service Formally Known As LotusLive) is an obvious choice for me. Now see what happens:
I went to the lotuslive page and found that there is allready a page for IBM Smart Cloud for Social Business … click …
Oh, I can get a 60 trial:
Click and … [read] Keywords: collaboration
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