Various Lotus user group activities
September 11 2005
I am speaking at two user group meetings this week.
- On Wednesday, September 14, I'll be in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The meeting starts at 9 AM (breakfast and registration at 8:30). The meeting will be at IBM Grand Rapids, 2900 Charlevoix Drive, S.E. Several of my regional IBM Lotus colleagues will be present as well; we are combining the Notes/Domino 7 regional launch with the user group meeting. Lunch (by RSVP only) will be provided at noon; let me know via e-mail if you'll be joining.
- On Thursday, September 15, I'll be in Columbus, Ohio. The meeting starts at 1:30 PM at IBM in Dublin, Ohio. While the web listing uses an old title of mine, the agenda is here.
- Jack Dausman posted a summary of last week's Washington DC Lotus user group meeting, including a link to Blackberry's presentation. I'll be speaking at their November meeting.
- Daniele Grillo writes with details of a user group in Italy.
- And for those who are without a local group, or just want to participate, there will be an inaugural "virtual" Lotus User Group meeting on lotususergroup.org on September 28, 2005. My colleagues and I will cover the basics of the Notes/Domino 7 launch, including highlights of the new release.
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Josef | 9/12/2005 5:15:47 AM
Off topic again - here is the link, if you can forward it to the Czech office for some consideration (it is in Czech and quite long to translate but if you are interested I can do the translation):
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Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 9/12/2005 7:50:51 AM
Ah, the Domino 7 price increase (server only, not CALs nor Notes clients, and not on all editions). Probably worth discussing, but not in this thread. Let's stay on topic.
Off topic - considering the new super-duper Notes/Domino 7 activities, what about doing something about the price?
I will have hard time persuading my boss that we absolutely need to renew even if it is 25% more expensive.
As someone from our (Czech) Lotus community pointe out - the Domino Enterprise server is getting into "no-sell" category. The price is simply getting more end more prohibitive, especially for us as a small (sub-20) company.
To earn more you should sell more, not to ask more for a license.
Sorry for an off-topic here but Lotus user groups here (Czech Republic) are none to be found and this way we'll be all Microsoft-only pretty soon.