Tag: skype

Episode 51, recorded Thursday 12th May 2011, discussing the LotusLive Spring 2011 release, Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype and more…

Hosts

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

Guests

David Durazzano is IBM Senior Product Manager for LotusLive Services.  David joined Lotus in 1994 as a technical support analyst, he then went on to co-founded a Lotus Business Partner consulting company and later started an on-line software/services company.  David rejoined IBM in 1999 where he has held several technical leadership roles on the Lotus Notes/Domino, Workplace & Greenhouse teams before shifting his focus in 2007 to contribute to the IBM on-line collaborative SaaS business LotusLive.

Topics

New release of LotusLive 

• What’s in the new release?
• Seems that many of the features of IBM Connections are being brought into Engage – is the eventual goal to have full feature parity? Blogs/Wikis etc?
• New levels of privacy give Extranet-type functionality
• Which LotusLive features are affected?
  • Communities – now have sub communities, files and folders, add guest users to community, improved forums
  • Admin – announcements, hiding user profiles,
  • Files – folders
  • Meetings – now match standalone meeting experience
  • Sametime – up to 8.5
• Has LL Connections been upgraded in the same way? Whats the difference between Engage and Connections?
• LL Meetings?
• When is LL Symphony Meetings going to be included?

Microsoft buys Skype 

• $8.5bn – is this a fair price?
• What’s the plan?
• Is it a consumer or a corporate play?
• How does the Skype acquisition fit in with Phone 7 and Nokia?
• Is the merger of consumer and corporate IT inevitable?

Tips