Perhaps most impressive is the fact company owner Eric Rose himself served as the software architect and teamed with a certified Lotus software developer for Project Framework. Using IBM’s Domino Designer, which includes the IBM XPages toolset for creating a Web 2.0 experience across different platforms, Rose can develop Project Framework’s Internet and mobile capabilities.
And for Rose, the customization is never complete. He continues to enhance the application in order to match the changing needs of his project and clients. For example, the use of IBM Notes Traveler enables users to access project documentation on smartphones, with additional pieces of the software being mobilized using XPages.
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Open Mic Webcast: External elements that can negatively impact your IBM Domino server
A new Open Mic Webcast on 23 October at 11AM EST.
Join IBM’s Monica Senior, along with several other members of the IBM Domino team as they discuss External elements that can negatively impact your IBM Domino server
During this webcast, we will cover five external elements that can cause your IBM Domino server to crash, prevent the server from starting, and/or affect the server’s performance. These external elements include but are not limited to operating system configurations and applications that are seemingly harmless, but we will cover how their settings negatively impacted IBM Domino servers.
After a presentation attendees will be given an opportunity to ask questions. Throughout the event, attendees will also be encouraged to comment or ask questions through our SmartCloud meeting web chat. Join us for this interactive, educational, lively session.
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Let’s see if we can guess the “five external elements.” I’ll start:
- DNS
- Network
- Users
- Halon
- Alcohol (as consumed by either/both the Administrator or the Developer).,
Whirlpool Corporation: Goodbye IBM Notes
Google Apps scored some enterprise street cred on Monday by announcing a huge customer: Whirlpool.
Whirlpool has 68,000 employees and 66 facilities around the world who will standardize on Apps, Google’s cloud email and office productivity suite. Whirlpool did not ditch Microsoft Exchange or Office for Google. It was using IBM’s Lotus Notes, its CIO Michael Heim told the Wall Street Journal.
This news item is very short on details, unless you are interested in the Google versus Microsoft battle. In fact, all of the articles that I could find on this topic only talk about Google and Microsoft. It makes you wonder if IBM even has some sort of cloud service. If it does (and it really does have a cloud service – why don’t you Google it?), it is never mentioned in these types of articles.
Sixty-eight thousand employees is rather significant, meanwhile in Armonk, NY, IBM says that IBM Lotus/Domino is a growing product. It’s really hard to define “growing” as the contribution of IBM Lotus/Domino is rolled into several other products in their portfolio. I’m sure IBM has lined up a company to take Whirlpool’s place, and then some, in order to continue the growth in IBM Lotus/Domino.
As an aside, there once was a great company in North Canton, Ohio, by the name of Hoover. I’m sure you have heard it. Hoover was sold to Whirlpool. But before that, I was fortunate to assist them with a cc:Mail to Notes migration. Along with the migration, I made some friends at Hoover. One of which has become a very good friend. For that, I am extremely grateful to Hoover (and, I suppose, IBM/Lotus).
What is IBM SmartCloud Notes Hybrid?
A great question and one that might be answered in an Open Mic webcast on 24 September.
IBM Support would like to help you take full advantage of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. During our Open Mic webcasts, technical experts share their knowledge and answer your questions. The sessions are designed to address specific technical topics and provide in-depth but narrowly focused training in convenient, live 1 hour seminars.
This event will be held Tuesday, September 24th, at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutes. After a presentation, you will have the opportunity to ask questions directly of IBM Product Managers, Developers and Solution Architects.
Open Mic Webcast Information
When: 24 September 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutes
Detailed information in Open Mic technote # 7039103 Title: What’s New in IBM SmartCloud Notes? – September 24, 2013
Doc #: 7039103
The technote will include:
Details on how to join the call and web conference
An iCal attachment to add this event into any iCal-supported calendar
The slides that will be presented during the session
Any replay or recording information after the session concludes
Web conference You can find the web conference URL and password in the webcast technote under the “Web conference” section.
Dial-in information Dial-in Passcode: 8119927
US/Canada phone numbers:
Toll-free number (866) 803-2145
Toll number (210) 795-1099
International phone numbers are listed in technote 7039103
Traveler and iOS 7
With the imminent release of iOS 7, are your Traveler servers ready to handle the new operating system? Traveler has to be at 8.5.3 UP2 IF4 and 9.0.0.1 or later releases. New functions in iOS 7 may not be fully supported until later releases of Traveler.
To get the latest updates and fix packs for Traveler, go here.
Link: IBM Notes Traveler support for the latest device updates
How To Make Me Cry
. . . in frustration: Ask me to find IBM software on this site:
For a site that is used quite a bit, you would think that someone would be an expert at navigating it. Not so. I have said, in meetings with IBM, that it is “soul crushing.” Oh, I know what I want, it’s just finding it that kills me.
Which brings me to an idea I had for a session at a User Group Conference or even at Connect. It will be a panel of individuals from the audience and whomever from IBM that is responsible for this site. Someone will emcee the panel. All guests sit in front of a computer, at the Passport Advantage home screen. The emcee will ask the panel members to find and download an IBM software package. The first person to successfully do so will be deemed the “winner.”
I think that this session will take longer than the allotted time.
As an aside, my co-workers know when I am using that site, based on the sighing and the language that emanates from my cube. What do I hear in return? “Passport Advantage?” Then laughter ensues.
Just kill me.
Using the Database Maintenance Tool (DBMT) and Compact Replication in Domino 9
Well, this is a bit late, however the TechNote will be updated in “a couple of weeks” so at least you will have have the opportunity to review the slides and the Q&A.
You are invited to join an Open Mic Webcast on the topic “Using the Database Maintenance Tool (DBMT) and Compact Replication in Domino 9”. This event will be held Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutes. After a presentation, you will have the opportunity to ask questions directly of IBM Developers and Support Engineers. See more details below. (Note: To view this information online, go here).
When Date: 11 September 2013
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutes
Title: Open Mic Webcast: Using the Database Maintenance Tool (DBMT) and Compact Replication in Domino 9 – 11 September 2013
Doc #: 7039379
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27039379
Before the call, the technote will include:
An iCal attachment to add this event to your calendar
Details on how to join the call and web conference
The slides that will be presented during the session
A couple of weeks after the call, the technote will be updated to include:
A recording of the session
A written Q&A transcript
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Client or Browser? Feature Comparison of Notes/iNotes 9
This article provides a side-by-side listing of new features available in both or in either IBM Notes 9.0 and IBM iNotes 9.0.
Cringely: IBM to customers: Your hand is staining my window
It is as Bob Cringely admits early in his post, a very negative column about IBM.
A month ago I began hearing about impending layoffs at IBM, but what could I say beyond “layoffs are coming?” This time my first clues came not from American IBMers but from those working for Big Blue abroad. Big layoffs were coming, they feared, following an earnings shortfall that caused panic in Armonk with the prospect that IBM might after all miss its long-stated earnings target for 2015. Well the layoffs began hitting a couple weeks ago just before I went into an involuntary technical shutdown trying to move this rag from one host to another. So I, who like to be the first to break these stories, have to in this case write the second day lede: what does it all mean?
It means the IBM that many of us knew in the past is gone and the IBM of today has management that is, frankly, insane.
As predicted by Bob, the comments are overwhelming negative as well.
And what of the reference in the comments to the City of Austin? It seems that “Smarter Planet” sometimes isn’t as smart as the advertisements lead you to believe. See the link below for an article from a reporter in Austin.
Regardless, from the comments and some back channel conversations I’ve seen, the article is spot on.
Link: statesman.com: IBM blames City of Austin for ongoing billing problems, says it’s owed $4 million
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