Episode 44, recorded Monday 28th March 2011, discussing the Sam Palmisano article and IBM comments, tablet sales in 2011, the Social Business Summit, Domino as a RAD platform and more…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
![]() | Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter) is the Lead IBM Software Support Specialist at City University in London working on all things collaborative and IBM/Lotus software based. |
Topics
CNN/Fortune profile of Sam Palmisano
- Very positive review of progress under CEO – change of product focus, growth of revenue, earnings per share
- But…. many many negative comments, mostly from IBMers and past-IBMers
- IBM CEO’s compensation jumps 30% to $31.7 million
Enterprises will buy 50 times as many tablets in 2011 as they did in 2010
- the number of tablets sold to Enterprise last year though was still really tiny. No wonder that “times” sounds huge
Dachis Group Social Business Summit
- Sharon and Stuart attended
- What were main takeaways?
- Technology agnostic – is that a positive or a negative?
- Is Jazz music the greatest example of real-time collaboration?
(March Madness Domino Style has taken hold)
5 minute RAD – Is Domino Really SO RAD?
- Jake caused a stir with his post, lots of comments
- Simon o’Doherty and Dave Leedy both took up the challenge with XPages
Darren wants IBM to reduce the TCO for Domino apps
- Ed hinted in the comments IBM may well be working on it
Phil Salm wants Cisco to buy Lotus
- His title made us look twice…
Carl Tyler wants IBM to drop the Notes client (kind of)
- Ed hinted in the comments IBM may well be working on it
- Is an XPages only server the next great thing?
- Is it time for IBM to look at it’s competition?
- Visual Studio
- DropBox
- Skype
- Outlook
UKLUG
- Abstracts due by the April 5th
Darren | TDI tip – of the AMC seems inaccessible (i.e, you don’t see any images) try running “TDI_install_dir/bin/amc/setAMCRoles.bat(sh) username” |
Sharon | Use an iPad / tablet for taking notes while you are out and about – I didn’t think I would ever use it for that .. and that is now my primary use. |
Stuart | Buy new batteries for your MP3 recorder before attending an event! Seriously, DB2 config for Connections 3.0. Be afraid, very afraid! Resource requirements are significantly up on 2.5. |