The Nostalgia has dropped suddenly

but only temporarily. I have been doing some Lotusphere nostalgia things just for a while and then came to end abruptly.. Well, i normally i am a good basher of myself but this time around i am not going to do that. I had to handle quite a few things in between and just couldn't sit and blog.

Frankly, it's a little bit hard to keep with things that's happening around you and then also allocate time to write about it.. But i would like to tell you this, i enjoy doing this work and so i can make some time. It's just that i am a bit lost in organizing all this properly. At times, i will think a bit complicated and cannot think SIMPLE. 

Meanwhile, i am finding my way out to manage all these and already doing some home projects towards that. Having said that, there is indeed some good news that is coming up. Please stay tuned. I will try to update as and when things happen or may be a bit later ;) 

As far Lotusphere 2011, there were some excellent all around news from LS2011 as well. I will have to read all the contents available and hear from friends before writing anything about it. But one thing is clear to me, IBM is  taking more of the Lotus Connections route to re-brand the entire Lotus portfolio which will compete with Google more than MS. I think the strategy is very good indeed and a very long term vision. With all the push from MS around SharePoint I think companies are discussing more about Google than MS. At least IBM is giving that sort of a feeling but will have to wait and see.

Another certain thing is Lotus UI is going to change in the years to come and end users will start getting a feeling that finally the software is their own rather than only for developers and administrators. This will surely increase user adoption rate and we will hear some day from CIO's that my users are asking for Lotus and so we have to make a switch. The perception is going to change sooner than latter :)

Good day people... Cheers

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

IBM Project Vulcan Demo

IBM Project Vulcan Demo from Serdar Basegmez on Vimeo.

IBM Project Vulcan

Is going to leave everyone to dust. One of the announcements from Lotusphere 2010. Looks like Google Wave, Facebook, Connections, LinkedIn etc and know what, everything to be delivered in Lotus Notes client in what IBM calls Continuity, Convergence, Innovation and New opportunities.
This is definitely going to be a big leap forward in the areas of collaboration and productivity yet supporting all the Notes apps that you had built in the past. I wonder how IBM is able to achieve this sort of backward compatibility but i am sure that it's not an easy task.
Here we go some sample screen shots by far the best through EdBrill.com