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