Reinventing Lotus
In a blaze of announcements, Lotus chose
October 1 as the date to redefine itself, moving the idea of a
collaborative workplace ahead, and moving from a future thought,
to an available reality.
Bryan Simmons, Lotus’ VP of worldwide
Marketing took the occasion to note that there is now tangible
evidence of the collaborative workplace and of the transition of
Lotus from a set of individual product silos into an integrated
portfolio of collaborative capabilities.
As an example, he cites the integration
of Lotus’s Sametime instant messaging into Lotus Quickplace.
October 1st saw the
introduction of the long awaited Release 6 of Lotus Notes and
Domino, with more than 1,000 new features. The release emphasizes reductions in Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO), important in mature market sectors like messaging, as well
as a host of features ranging from policy-based administration to
spam control. Notes
will continue to offer pricing based on named users plus per
server pricing. It
will also offer a utility server pricing (no client licenses
required), especially for extranet applications. (As you may recall, I am an enthusiastic cheerleader for such
pricing.)
The new version of
Notes will be more closely aligned with IBM’s software portfolio
and, at the same time, will provide support for popular
competitive products like Microsoft’s Active Directory,
permitting customers to combine the products of their choice.
Notes will include a fee copy of IBM’s WebSphere
application server, with J2EE support.
Lotus
has added a new product to its LearningSpace e-learning product
line, the Virtual Classroom. This easy to deploy software allows businesses to
provide a real-time e-learning environment for sharing information
between instructors and students.
It’s ideal for training, sales announcements, and
organizational business communications.
All-in-all,
lots to absorb. We
may revisit some of these individually in future issues.
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