Domino Interface

I originally did not plan to go to IBM Think 2018. However, at the last minute I decided to go and I am glad that I went. Though my heart is in the ICS collaboration space, I spent the majority of my time attending sessions related to IoT, GDPR, Watson, and security. This is our focus with our IBM Domino-based iPhora platform. I attended all the Domino sessions of course. I am excited and energized by the renew focus on Domino with the IBM/HCL partnership and all the new capabilities that Domino has always had. It is the best application platform around. Regardless of what other vendors say, there is nothing like it. With the new capabilities coming with Domino v10 and beyond, my head in spinning with numerous product ideas some of which are coming out sooner than you Think. The User Community Day was great. It allowed me to not only see everyone in the ICS community, but also other non-ICS champions and users. I had a chance to talk to others that I would probably not have done...

Due to the holidays and request from a number of potential speakers, abstract submission for MWLUG 2017 has been extended to June 2, 2017, 6:00 PM CST.  So if you are planning to submit an abstract for MWLUG 2017, you have another extra week.  But don't wait to the last minute !!! To submit go to:  http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2017.nsf/sessionabstract.xsp

The session schedule for MWLUG 2016 is no available online at: http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug.nsf/schedule.xsp There is still time to register for MWLUG 2016 at: http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug.nsf/register.xsp

The session schedule for MWLUG 2014 is now online at the main mwlug.com site. I am looking forward to MWLUG 2014.  We have a lot of great and unique sessions that you will not find elsewhere in the ICS community.  http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2014.nsf/Schedule.xsp . So register as soon as you can, the special discount for the hotel rooms will be expiring in a couple of weeks. http://mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2014.nsf/Register.xsp

I am happy to announce that the MWLUG 2013 IBM OGS Speaker is Scott Souder, Program Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions, IBM.  It is great to have Scott speak at MWLUG 2013 given his busy schedule.  We look forward to hearing Scott speak on the future direction of IBM Messaging and Collaboration solutions. Scott Souder is Program Director, Messaging and Collaboration Solutions, IBM.  Scott is responsible for the product and market strategy for IBM's messaging and collaboration products, including IBM Notes and Domino, iNotes and IBM Connections Mail.  Scott's focus is on extending and growing the success of these solutions through customer engagement, partner ecosystem development, and harnessing the breadth and depth of the IBM organization.  In his spare time, Scott enjoys being with family, flying airplanes, playing bluegrass music, and the amazing outdoors.

This is a blog that I have been wanting to write for a long time and it is very important to me as an developer and Evangelist of Lotus products. Many companies that I know have moved off Notes and Domino. Also I have heard many have come on board also. How the numbers stack up only IBM knows. But that does not matter if I am doing well in providing consulting services and training. The thing that I have been struggling with and have not heard from IBM is a compelling story on why a company would what to use Domino as their Web application server versus Microsoft and Google solutions and more importantly open source solutions. First, if your company is a Lotus shop that makes sense. However, majority of the world is not when it comes to Web application servers. If Domino is going to turn the corner and grow as a Web application server which is the direction that IBM is pushing, we need to easily provide this compelling story. I see open source-based frameworks like Drupal and ...

Infoworld just interview Steve Mills on IBM thoughts and direction in regards to Cloud Computing. http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/what-ibm-really-thinks-about-the-cloud-309?page=0,0