The Strawberry Project » quickplace http://www.breadedcod.com The blog formerly known as The Strawberry Project Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:21:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2094 What Gartner Thought Of It All http://www.breadedcod.com/2007/02/04/what-gartner-thought-of-it-all/ http://www.breadedcod.com/2007/02/04/what-gartner-thought-of-it-all/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:59:03 +0000 breadedcod http://www.breadedcod.com/2007/02/04/what-gartner-thought-of-it-all/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Well, I’ve finally dragged myself across to Gartner to see what they made of Lotusphere, and so here are their pearls of wisdom for your digestion.

Significant updates to Lotus Notes and Quickplace, as well as the introduction of some compelling new products, were the reason that IBM’s Lotusphere 2007 was buzzing with positive feedback from IBM customers and partners.

Perhaps the best news coming from Lotusphere is the near-disappearance of the bewildering “Workplace” name. The folding of Workplace into WebSphere Portal has helped to reduce the confusion regarding its strategy, messaging and products. While Workplace was, in Gartner’s view, a failed marketing effort, its underlying concepts embracing the Web have provided a critical foundation for Notes 8, Quickr, Connections and Sametime — which are all built on Eclipse with the Expeditor tool. Combined with the recently added representational state transfer (REST) application programming interfaces, Atom syndication capabilities and “mashability,” these concepts serve as a strategic architecture for all future Lotus products.

IBM hopes Lotusphere 2007 will launch an updated, more competitive and appealing Lotus. The demonstrations and product sessions have been successful among the Lotus users who come to these events. However, several challenges persist. The relationship of Quickr to existing products like Domino Document Manager, DB2 Content Manager and new document-oriented clients remains murky. While the mashups and possibilities of social software are promising, the lack of consumer-focused or Web 2.0 software-as-a-service offerings limits penetration.

Fairly-dos then. Not entirely sure that IBM have offered ‘consumer-focused’ software for a considerable length of time now. They tend to leave that to Apple and Microsoft, but there you go.

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]]> http://www.breadedcod.com/2007/02/04/what-gartner-thought-of-it-all/feed/ 0 The software lineup we’ll be using in the next few months http://www.breadedcod.com/2006/11/07/the-software-lineup-well-be-using-in-the-next-few-months/ http://www.breadedcod.com/2006/11/07/the-software-lineup-well-be-using-in-the-next-few-months/#comments Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:37:24 +0000 breadedcod http://www.breadedcod.com/2006/11/07/the-software-lineup-well-be-using-in-the-next-few-months/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Now that we have confirmation of the partneship with IBM we can look forward to the delivery of a raft of new technologies over the coming months. There’s definitely a fair bit to get our teeth into, both directly at the team level and more widely at the offices.

From our perspective, amongst other stuff, we can expect:

Websphere Portal Extend Edition
Websphere Application Server
Websphere Portlet Factory
Websphere Everyplace
Workplace Forms
Lotus Quickplace
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Domino
DB2 Content Manager
Omnifind

…and some rather pleasing bits of kit to run it all on.

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