Lotusphere Nostalgia Part 2

Key Highlights from LS 2010

IBM Project Vulcan - To me this is the single most important thing from LS 2010 even when there are other things like LotusLive, Lotus Notes Traveler etc.

Because it is going to appeal to both end users and as well developers and business partners. For the end users b'cos they are going to have an user interface which is very much like any other social software they use daily eg: Facebook

And for the developers and business partners IBM is going to release a common set of API's which will talk across the Lotus portfolio starting from Notes / Domino until Lotus Connections, Lotus Live and IBM WebSphere Portal. But it is not going to happen in the next release of Lotus Notes and Domino but will happen over a period of time. That's why Project Vulcan is not a code name like 'Hannover" ( code name for Lotus Notes 8) but is a blue print for the IBM future collaboration strategy.

That being said Vulcan will include all the latest technologies to achieve this vision namely HTML5, XPages,CSS3, Web Services and may possibly include WebKit etc. Of course it has to b'cos what IBM is trying to achieve is to make the entire concept of collaboration as "loosely coupled services" which can then applied across the organisation. To make that happen Lotus has to include all the Open standards ( it is already doing though) and only then if the developer wants to go integrate Lotus Notes with any of the services available in the  Internet he / she will be able to do so. 

Some questions comes to my mind though, while in the process of making it slimmer, will IBM cut down some of the features Lotus Notes has already got but for now we don't have to worry b'cos LS 2011 will answer those and shed additional light.

The purpose of this writing is only to highlight some of the key things about LS 2010 in my eyes b'cos i have caught up with LS fever now :) We may come back here again before I close down Lotusphere Nostalgia...

Thanks for reading this and stay good.. Cheers