Notes 8.5 AppDev woes
I'm trying to get Notes 8.5 to play nice with my Eclipse IDE but without any luck. This means I can't compile anything for the Notes 8.5 beta client. I started with Eclipse 3.3 since Notes 8.5 is based on Expeditor 6.2 which is based on Eclipse 3.3 but without success as it wont install on that platform. No luck in my Eclipse 3.2 / Expeditor toolkit combo either as I either have the Notes client plug-ins avaiable (e.g. Sametime) or the Eclipse platform (org.eclipse.ui) available. Can't seem to get both working! :-(
Will post in the beta forum now...
ILUG2008: Battle of the giants
I'm back at out booth in the exhibitors area after attending Nick Shelness session titled "What are Microsoft's Plans in the Collaboration Space?". We met Nick over a pint of Guiness on Tuesday so I had already heard some of the message but it was a really good session with some very interesting contents. The bottom line? He thinks IBM/Lotus is loosing terrain to Microsoft and that Microsoft has now become that trusted partner that IBM used to be. Also he had some nice slides on how the Microsoft portfolio cover the space - I need to get a hold of them...
Besides that it was interesting to see that he appeared a little bit intimidated by the fact that the IBM'ers (especially Ed) was attending. Oh and Ed couldn't quite resist taking the bait on some of the comments... :-)
Only point where the crowd did object was when he said that Notes wasn't built for workflow. That didn't go down very well with the attendees!