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January 20 2009 06:00:00 PM
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Breaking news from Lotusphere!!! Before it hits the main press tomorrow morning, here is some of the hottest news...
Lotus has demoed live an implementation of ActiveSync on Lotus Notes Traveller. ActiveSync supports many devices, for example the iPhone. ;-) In the demo Lotus showed sync and integration between Lotus Notes with the native mail, calendar, and contact apps on the iPhone.
iNotes ultra-light will continued to be enhanced, for example with 8.5 it runs on all browsers now, not just Safari. There are some advantages to having a non-push connection, meaning you only get new email when you choose to look for it, and you're not interrupted all the time.
"We have every intention in getting Notes and iPhone integration to be on par with Apple and Exchange." - Ed Brill
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David Marshak - Unified Communications
Sametime 8.5 in H2 2009. Modernizes Sametime, and opens it up. Improved meetings, easy to use and rock solid stability.
Make it as easy to open a web conference as it is to open a chat. You can do it from an email, from a calendar, from a chat, etc.
Meetings will be persistent. So you can have presentation materials available all the time. Or your team can have a space to always meet in.
For most products today, web conferences often require lots of plugins. Removing the requirements for down loaded components means firewall issues removed, JVM issues removed, etc.
CEBP - communication enabled business processes. ex: Take a spreadsheet, turn it into a feed, link it to a Yahoo News Feed, and then add a Sametime Click To Call widget.
Lots of talk about what platform Sametime servers are, Domino vs. WebSphere that I did not really follow. I know presence and chat will stay on Domino, but meetings and gateways, etc will be on WebSphere.
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Caleb Barlow - Business owner for Lotus Foundations
These servers go into companies of 5-500 people, SMB. Goes after Microsoft market with Small Business Server (SBS)
Lotus Foundation 1.1 will support VMWare Hypervisor. (sp?) You take an image, drop it on the server, and you're up and running. This allows you to add things like Windows applications. The machine will continue to run even if a Windows instance bluescreens, and even if a drive fails. The OS is on a chip, less than 80MB, and the machine remains bootable.
Lotus Foundations 1.1 Branch Office - now allows multiple machines to be in the same Domino domain. You can move users between servers, and all the other things that multiple servers in a domain allows.
Lotus has demoed live an implementation of ActiveSync on Lotus Notes Traveller. ActiveSync supports many devices, for example the iPhone. ;-) In the demo Lotus showed sync and integration between Lotus Notes with the native mail, calendar, and contact apps on the iPhone.
iNotes ultra-light will continued to be enhanced, for example with 8.5 it runs on all browsers now, not just Safari. There are some advantages to having a non-push connection, meaning you only get new email when you choose to look for it, and you're not interrupted all the time.
"We have every intention in getting Notes and iPhone integration to be on par with Apple and Exchange." - Ed Brill
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David Marshak - Unified Communications
Sametime 8.5 in H2 2009. Modernizes Sametime, and opens it up. Improved meetings, easy to use and rock solid stability.
Make it as easy to open a web conference as it is to open a chat. You can do it from an email, from a calendar, from a chat, etc.
Meetings will be persistent. So you can have presentation materials available all the time. Or your team can have a space to always meet in.
For most products today, web conferences often require lots of plugins. Removing the requirements for down loaded components means firewall issues removed, JVM issues removed, etc.
CEBP - communication enabled business processes. ex: Take a spreadsheet, turn it into a feed, link it to a Yahoo News Feed, and then add a Sametime Click To Call widget.
Lots of talk about what platform Sametime servers are, Domino vs. WebSphere that I did not really follow. I know presence and chat will stay on Domino, but meetings and gateways, etc will be on WebSphere.
--------
Caleb Barlow - Business owner for Lotus Foundations
These servers go into companies of 5-500 people, SMB. Goes after Microsoft market with Small Business Server (SBS)
Lotus Foundation 1.1 will support VMWare Hypervisor. (sp?) You take an image, drop it on the server, and you're up and running. This allows you to add things like Windows applications. The machine will continue to run even if a Windows instance bluescreens, and even if a drive fails. The OS is on a chip, less than 80MB, and the machine remains bootable.
Lotus Foundations 1.1 Branch Office - now allows multiple machines to be in the same Domino domain. You can move users between servers, and all the other things that multiple servers in a domain allows.
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