We had our User Group meeting yesterday here also (on Ed’s heels)
Tags :Domino 7
In St Louis, we usually meet on the second
Tuesday of the month, but due to someone booking the actual room we use,
it was moved this one time to Wednesday. The topic was on all the
new features of Domino 7. Interestingly enough the presenter (Kraig
Vanderbeek fro IBM who does a few of them a year) cut out everything that
related to Workplace and any other part of the portfolio. Why is
this important you ask?
Well Ed
posted about his overview of the recent couple meetings he attended in
Dallas and Houston, and some nice responses by Alan and Steve
Castledine. But here is
what I think, and well if you don't like it comment away. Ed talks
about all the things they have done for Lotus the past few years.
There's also the level
of investment IBM is making in integrating Notes into newer technologies
(where newer is only a statement about age). Domino Application Portlet,
common PIM portlet, Bowstreet tools for WebSphere Portal. Notes client
plug-in for the IBM Workplace client technology. These are major
efforts to protect existing skills and investment...and continue to provide
a relevant platform for those Notes applications for a long time to come
Which I totally agree. But what gets
missed is that people are asking just for what is coming and changing in
Domino in a lot of these shops. I heard it yesterday at the User
Group and it is why I like the
approach Kraig took in presenting. He basically said (as I paraphrase
greatly)
You came to this to
see what was new in Domino 7, not in what we are merging with Workplace
and other Websphere things. So I cut those out.
Bravo! Ed points out all the integration
changes and other things made, but people in a whole lot of shops are working
with straight Domino technology and need to know what is enhanced there
and only there. Portlets are awesome if you are running an environment
where you need portlets. But how many times do we say, "I can
do that in Notes" to someone in the organization? We say it
a lot. Then the marketing comes in that Workplace, Websphere Portal
and all these others are the way to plug-in. So I went on and on
enough in a long circle to say one thing.
I love all the integration into newer technologies.
I even promote and support some of them through installations and
hosting. But a lot of the companies come to us asking, "just
tell me about Domino and nothing else. Where is it going without
one mention of Workplace or Websphere in your answer and how can we keep
leveraging that power. We don't want the other ones......yet."
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On Thursday, December 16th, 2004 by Chris Miller
