Episode 36, recorded Thursday 28th January 2011, discussing why Notes is definitely not dead, IBM’s exceptional web experience, LotusLive’s pre-Lotusphere announcements, working at IBM, Lotus advertising, Domino on SSDs and even a few mentions of Lotusphere 2011!

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Topics

Notes is definitely not dead!

• Jon Rolling – Lotus – Not dead yet!
• Karl-Henry Martinsson – Lotus Notes – Not dead here either!
• Chris Connor – Notes Dead? Not here either…
• Brian Benz’s Deloitte XPages application series
• What do these kind of posts mean? Can we extrapolate?
• Ah, but what about Jake Howlett – Am I Still A Domino Developer?

Does IBM Practice what it preaches?

• Ben Poole’s retort

Lotuslive announcements

• New website
• New partners – Ariba & SugarCRM
• New customer references

Working at IBM

• Susan Bulloch – Living the Dream
• Mac Guidera – I’m an IBMer

Will we ever see another ad campaign like this?

• Lots of discussion about advertising vs. marketing
• Product vs. Brand etc
• Is it time for a new Lotus Notes/Domino ad campaign?

James Governor: Lotus Gears Up To Embrace The Web, Rebuild its Developer Story, pwn Social Business

• Is James right?  Is the appdev story the key to IBM success with ‘platforms’like Connections, LotusLive and Quickr?

Domino on SSDs – Erik Brooks marvels at speed of Domino solid state disk

• NSF versus transaction logging
• Notes client on SSD

SametimeGuide.com launched by Chris Miller. Sametime admin tutorial videos

• $199 – special promo offer of $49.99

Connections Files plug-in for Notes released

IBM Social Business Jam, Feb 8-11

Lotusphere 2011

• People Vowe will miss at LS11
• The passing of the torch or the end of an era? Great topic!
• What’s the one standout session?
• What are we looking forward to?

Tips