Lotusphere 2008: Upcoming interesting sessions today Tuesday

January 22 2008

I'm just about to head out the door for INV106, the Notes/Domino roadmap session.  I am really pleased with where we are at with the Notes/Domino product strategy, and believe you will be as well.

At 1:30 PM, I'll be hosting our Lotusphere Idol! auditions in the Dolphin North Hemisphere.  We selected several finalists to audition for a real speaking slot on Thursday morning, and they've produced some excellent tryout material.  

At 4:15 today, we are having a customer success stories panel discussion, in Dolphin Southern III.  The title is "selling Lotus internally" -- sounds very familiar to me and to many of you as well.

I have been reading the blogs and some of the press coverage from yesterday.  It's clear that we have a job to do this week to expand on all the news from the opening general session.  For those who are developers, I strongly want to encourage you to plan to attend the app dev mini-keynote on Thursday morning, where Kevin Cavanaugh will help tie the whole message together.  Just the fact that this mini-keynote exists is strong evidence of how much renewal Lotus has put into the message of "developers, developers, developers".

Have a great day -- more blog entries to come!

Ed Brill | Lotusphere 2008 Category:  Lotusphere2008  Add/View Comments [17]

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  1. 1  Chris Linfoot http://chris-linfoot.net | 1/22/2008 9:54:58 AM

    Is it wise to quote Steve Ballmer in a Lotusphere context ?

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  1. 2  Greg  | 1/22/2008 10:09:59 AM

    So what's the news with Notes\DWA on the iPhone? We iPhone users eagerly await news. I saw a screen shot yesterday on someone's site but not details.

    Thanks.

  1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/22/2008 10:32:26 AM

    @2 Greg, I saw your comments on the other postings... sorry that I can't always answer real-time.

    We announced that Domino 8.5 will have an "ultralight" mode of Domino Web Access that can run on the iPhone/Safari browser.

  1. 4  Thilo Hamberger  | 1/22/2008 10:38:23 AM

    I hope we are talking about Notes developers and not Web developers. Or maybe that will be the same someday soon??!!

  1. 5  Mary Beth http://www.marybethraven.com | 1/22/2008 11:11:57 AM

    Rgarding DWA on the iPhone-- if you are at Lotusphere, come to the UX lab in Asia 4 -- we have several iPhones with DWA and are doing usability tests!

  1. 6  Sean Burgess http://www.phigsaidwhat.com/ | 1/22/2008 11:27:33 AM

    @Chris - I had the exact same thought when I read the "developers, developers, developers" line.

  1. 7  Ian Scott  | 1/22/2008 11:34:44 AM

    @1/@7 - Aye, but there's a difference between writing and speaking it and shouting and sweating it 8-D

  1. 8  Julian Woodward http://blog.woowar.com | 1/22/2008 12:03:41 PM

    I've just watched that clip after lunch. Yeeeeuch.

  1. 9  Daniel Schiavone http://www.SnakeHill.net | 1/22/2008 1:12:40 PM

    I'm so sad I'm sitting out this year. Is the opening general session going to posted online?

    The product line is coming together quite nicely. Take back the developers... open open open!

  1. 10  Karen Demerly  | 1/22/2008 2:22:08 PM

    Do we get to see some of the William Huang's and/or Sanjaya's of the Lotusphere Idol! competition? And did you use the term "dawg" at all while you were on the panel? Okay, nevermind.

    "Have a great day." Easy for you to say, you don't have a wind chill of 6 degrees.

  1. 11  Stuart McIntyre http://collaborationmatters.com | 1/22/2008 3:46:35 PM

    @9 I would love to see it too - but can't see it happening...

    Always happy to be surprised by IBM though ;-)

  1. 12  Chris Harris  | 1/22/2008 4:08:50 PM

    I really wish IBM/Lotus would consider putting some live video feeds from these sessions on the net, even streaming audio would be good. Being stuck in the UK reading all the great news coming out of there is making me feel very left out!

  1. 13  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 1/22/2008 4:49:54 PM

    Regarding the App Dev Mini Main, it's unfortunately directly opposite the Lotusphere Idol finalist presentation. To me the Domino Designer 8.5 unveiling was the biggest news of Lotusphere. I'm absolutely beside myself to get my hands on that **NOW**.

  1. 14  jim Casale  | 1/22/2008 7:40:42 PM

    Did I miss the projected time frame for ND8.5 or am I just having to much fun down here? :-)

  1. 15  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/22/2008 8:43:03 PM

    @14 I don't think the lawyers let anyone give a projected timeframe for 8.5, but it's late 2008.

  1. 16  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/22/2008 8:43:47 PM

    @10 there are pictures of the Idol competition on Flickr under the lotusphere2008 and/or lotusphereidol tags.

  1. 17  Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 1/22/2008 8:44:11 PM

    @14 - I have "December-ish" written in my notes.