ZDNet.co.uk: Unified Communications and collaboration solutions
October 17 2007
IBM Lotus is highlighted on the homepage of ZDNet.co.uk, including links to a white paper on Unified Communications and collaboration solutions. Right above that link, about halfway down on the middle of the page, there's an embedded video. No direct link to it, but once you find it and click, you'll see IBMer Darren Adams explain the features and benefits of Unified Communications.
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 10/17/2007 1:06:42 PM
Mark,
it -is- essentially an ad. But it's a good one :)
It just so happens that MS made some announcements yesterday. Otherwise the news would be, well, whatever's in the news.
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Bill McCuistion | 10/17/2007 1:23:38 PM
What's nicer is the "Mail & Messaging Toolkit -- In association with IBM", just above the Gates video.
Clicking on the toolkit (in association with IBM) takes you to an article announcing Notes / Domino Beta 2.
I guess it takes a while for news to get refreshed.
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Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 10/17/2007 1:24:47 PM
@1 - I won't say too much on the subject, but Microsoft getting coverage for everything and anything is a fact of life. Bill Gates blows his nose, Steve Ballmer dance a monkey dance, someone writes a news story.
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Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 10/17/2007 1:25:51 PM
@3 - I'm seeing ZDNet again this Friday, I'll point out that we've moved beyond beta 2 ;o)
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Stuart McIntyre http://collaborationmatters.com | 10/17/2007 2:45:10 PM
This is the best I could do for a direct link { Link }
Nice video Darren. Can't wait to see the others that yourself and Brendan Tutt have done...
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Ian Scott | 10/17/2007 3:11:42 PM
@4 - How true. What I keep asking myself is if it will continue to be so when BG is not there - or here? IBM is, I think, a better long term bet 8-)
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Henry Ferlauto http://www.geniusinside.com | 10/17/2007 3:32:25 PM
Ed - Have your thoughts on UC evolved since November 2006?
{ Link }
@4 - You're quite right. There was a video on CNN's homepage the other day regarding UC. There was a very short interview with Bill Gates himself. Can't seem to find it today.
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Charles Robinson http://cubert-codepoet.blogspot.com | 10/17/2007 3:37:08 PM
@4/7 - October 16, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Remember the old philosophical puzzler: If a tree falls down in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, are we sure it made a sound? With Tuesday's launch of Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Corp. is trying to render centuries of existential debate moot. Because as years of hype around OCS show, when Microsoft launches a new product, everyone wants to hear about it. { Link }
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Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 10/17/2007 3:49:51 PM
@9 - true... although you could also say "when Microsoft launches a new product, everyone WILL hear about it".
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Chris Reckling http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/insidelotusblog.nsf/ | 10/17/2007 4:29:58 PM
Darren - nice "slides"! Old school whiteboard rules!!
Chris
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Mark Hughes | 10/17/2007 4:33:23 PM
Veiled under the guise of unified communications...
since Apple just announced that an SDK will be out for the iPhone in Feb, do you think the people responsible for Notes Traveler will be intrested in a version for the iPhone in te far future?
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Sean Jennings | 10/18/2007 7:14:48 AM
@12 - I think this has to be a must, given the number of people pestering corporate IT Depts to be given an iPhone as their new company mobile-phone... especially when its the execs that are doing it.
(PS: the SDK will work for the the new iTouch ipod too....)
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Stuart McIntyre http://lotusconnectionsblog.com | 10/19/2007 6:59:28 AM
@12&13: According to Warren { Link } Commontime are going to release a version of their mNotes software that will support the iPhone. Great news - though my wife may not be so pleased when the sees the "test" iPhone appear in the house ;-)
Not to be critical, but at the very top of their page is a feature story about Microsoft's unified Communications server and suite followed by a story about Gates announcing it, followed by a review. You have to scroll down a good ways to see the Lotus link. At first glance it looks like an ad, while all of the Microsoft stories look like articles and reviews.