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All Good Things Must Come to an End and the New Hope and Direction

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MWLUG 2017 was our most successful MWLUG conference we have ever had. With over 232 registered and a small number of cancellations, MWLUG 2017 was the most attended and largest conference. We had over 60 sessions, workshops and round tables with speakers from all over the United States and Europe. Over a third of the sessions were non-IBM specific and included sessions covering new topics like MongoDB and GDPR. In tuned with our theme this year, Moving Collaboration Forward, our goal was to expand our conference this year forward towards a new direction and not just cover the usual. The world of collaboration is changing. No longer does a solution stand by itself nor does a solution just involve components from a single vendor. Companies need to chose the best of breed and integrate solutions together. Sometimes it involves solutions from many vendors. This is a direction that IBM is moving towards with Cisco and Box. At the same time we see customers moving away from the IBM stac...

MWLUG 2017 - Domino Application Development Roundtable

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IBM Domino is nearing its 30th anniversary and yet it is still one of the most innovative software products on the market with features still not found in other solutions. Want to discuss with IBM your thoughts on how we can continue to make Domino one of the most relevant product for the next 30 years? We are please to announce that MWLUG 2017 will be hosting two Domino Application Development Roundtables on Wednesday August 9, 2017.  Each roundtable session will be 45 minutes. There is one for IBM customers and one for IBM Business Partners. Share your thoughts regarding the future directions of IBM Domino with Gary Kearney and Barry Rosen and their IBM Domino team at these interactive sessions. Registration for MWLUG 2017 is open. With all the new innovations that IBM and IBM Business Partners are creating with our favorite technologies, our theme for MWLUG 2017 is "Moving Collaboration Forward." MWLUG 2017 Registration Meet Ytria, our Gold Sponsor for MWLUG 2...

MWLUG 2017, "Moving Collaboration Forward", The New is Old and the Old is New

MWLUG 2017 mark the ninth annual ICS user group conference that we as a community are coming together to network and learn for each other.  It will be held at the beautiful Hilton Mark Center in Alexandria, VA near Washington DC from August 8 - 10, 2017. Like always we are planning many activities at MWLUG. Unlike previous years, MWLUG 2017 will be held from Tuesday through Thursday rather than the previous years where the conference was held from Wednesday until Friday.  This was one of the feedback that we receive last year. Our ICS community is in a state of transition as the market is changing and new technologies are introduced not just by IBM but from open source environment and other technology vendors.  No one vendor can silo themselves within their own technology.  Users are looking for the best breed.  IBM has answered this call with new solutions derived from open source technology like Docker, MongoDB, and Node. However as the same time, these ...