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Reactions to slides and information from WPLC tech call on Lotus Connections this morning


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I had the podcast with Alan Lepofsky at Lotusphere2007 on his new role as evangelist for Lotus Connections as a starting point to this whole Lotus Connections thing.  Well today there was an IBM/business partner tech call for the product which I made sure I was available for.  We are getting interest in hosting this product for customers already and I wanted to see architecture and anything else I could grab.

The blog technology is based on open source for this, using the Roller technology.  This is an easy way to get users started but also the floodgates on information.  One of the speakers even stated this was not a highlight of what Connections has to offer.

Currently only ITDS and Active Directory 2003 are supported.  They are 'actively" looking at properly utilizing the Domino directory for the LDAP services.  This is something that was addressed during Q&A at the end.  Domino support is crucial to many enterprises that have based and aggregated themselves around a Domino directory choice.

There will be a pilot and production install options.  The pilot builds the required tables on DB2 for you and the WAS part is a very basic install with security needs.  Much like the Sametime Gateway base install.  All the services are installed for testing ability in the pilot mode.  Production will offer standalone or clustered services with the ability to include or not include parts of Lotus Connections.  Data preservation should be preserved if you move from pilot to production.  This is a great way for customers to get their feet wet

A slide was pushed on ITDI (IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator) abilities to allow enhanced profile support across data sources.  ITDI will be offered as a bundled part of Connections.  A good move on the part of IBM to allow a greater building of profiles from numerous data sources.  Such as a Domino directory for usernames with HR info on profiles.  Using some data mapping in XML you could build a nice table and hierarchy for profiles, including skillsets.

If you read my LUG Sys Admin newsletter I had some initial candid talk about Lotus Connections inside.  I would suggest popping over there for some beginning thoughts.