Author: lekkim

The time slots and room allocations for the Lotusphere sesions has been posted on the lotusphere.com site. My session (BP106 – “From IBM Lotus Notes Java Developer to Lotus Notes 8 Plug-in Developer“) is on Monday at 1 PM in Swan Pelican and it’s up against more than fair competition.

The line-up this year is very strong and so will the competition for attendees at sessions be. Please remember that many of those competing sessions probably will be repeated so you can catch them second time around… 🙂

Be at my session or be square… 🙂

As “agreed” via Twitter today please use #ls09 for tagging Lotusphere 2009 tweets and “lotusphere2009” (without the quotes) for tagging content at all other sites and services where characters are not important.

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As last year I have been thinking about that may be in store for us at the opening general session (OGS) at Lotusphere 2009. I really think that the IBM Lotus strategy is becoming clearer and clearer and that customers are starting to pick up on the ideas and get on board. Let’s just hope that recent developments doesn’t mess it up for IBM Lotus. I heard that a certain blogger may attend Lotusphere and I hope that she’ll get her facts straightened out and get up to speed on the Notes platform. If not I know that we at Intravision would love to show of the Notes 8 platform to demonstrate that the Notes client is far from what it once was.

Anyways – on to the predictions.

OGS predictions

• Sametime interoperability with MSN via for-pay bridging service (they may save this one for the Sametime “OGS”)
• Announcement of public beta of Project Atlantic
• Sametime 8.5/9.0 announced
• Lotus Foundations, (native) support for Sametime and Quickr
• Most, if not all, demos done on Notes 8.5 for Mac and/or for Linux
• Demo of pure developer, all Linux, workstation with Notes and Designer…
• Someone will actually stumble and fall off the stage and use of dry ice in both the OGS and OCS… 🙂

What are yours?

While MyWidgets and LiveText isn’t a part of my session at Lotusphere it still makes a lot of sense in this demo. It shows how Notes 8 provides alternative ways of performing the same task – searching for a package by its track and trace number is this case. One option is using LiveText and another is using a custom search provider. The astute reader will immediately see that this is an extension of the IBM whois plug-in I posted about the other day.

Using Wink I did a Flash movie that shows the demo.