Ed Brill

It's all over but the frequent flyer mile posting -- I'm back from a very quick tour of Lotusphere Comes to You in Madrid and Barcelona. Family commitments drove me to rush right back from Barcelona, one of my favorite cities in the world, but it was still a great...

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Some useful tips on configuring Lotus Notes Traveler in your 8.5.1 environment, and how well it works...This article reports IBM® Lotus® Notes® Traveler 8.5.1 performance results for Microsoft® Windows® 64-bit operating systems. In addition, it compares the performances of Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 ( ......

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OK, one last update on the issue that Erik Brooks brought up a couple of weeks ago. Chad Scott, who has worked this issue diligently in Lotus Support, reports:A new Technote has been released to document the history and fix for the issue Erik Brooks blogged about last week. In...

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OK, mark another one off the bucket list. Today at Lotusphere Comes to You here in Madrid, I delivered an entire 45 minute presentation en español. The presentation, "Smart Collaboration", was essentially a slightly higher-level version of the keynote Kevin Cavanaugh and I delivered at Lotusphere. ......

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Alistair Rennie has been the general manager of Lotus software for about sixty days. In this podcast, recorded last week, Alistair debriefs on Lotusphere, talks about Project Vulcan, and looks ahead in the collaboration and productivity market. Well worth a 20 minute listen.LotusUserGroup.org caug ......

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Near as I can tell, it has been more than seven years since I was last in Spain. Madrid, more like ten years. I barely had discovered blogging at the time of my last visit. As such, I can't wait to get there tomorrow morning and start the day with...

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A few days ago, Erik Brooks wrote a blog entry entitled, "8.5.1 FAIL. Your code may just break." Unsurprisingly, that blog post got a fair bit of attention, from many of you as customers/partners as well as within IBM. I received a number of emails and pings from people who...

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This is so cool. At Lotusphere, Tungle announced that their connector for Lotus Notes was in beta. The Mac version wasn't ready until a few days ago, though, so I hadn't yet really started to tell people to "tungle me". Last week, I installed the beta plug-in and didn't really...

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Note: Wrote this on Saturday's flight home....sounds a bit ASW-ish but I am definitely interested in discussing perceptions. I had a great week in Germany, once again. My 26th visit (I think) was just as good as the previous 25, and I start to feel more and more "at home"...

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This is a great video showing several of the hottest OpenNTF.org projects for Lotus Notes and what their end-user benefits will be: File navigator, status updater, and XTalk discussion forums are shown. Niklas Heidloff demonstrates the actual end-user experience for each, in this short video tha ......

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A few people have pinged me today about Microsoft's new competitive website, which can be reached via the classy-looking "Why Microsoft" blog written by andrewk (doesn't that anonymity make you feel better about doing business with Microsoft already?). On the new site, Microsoft has done a clever j ......

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Another prime example of how in the Microsoft world that Microsoft giveth with one hand and taketh with the other...Everything else about the Exchange 2010 storage story pushes the costs of high availability down--it's possible to use commodity hardware (SATA in some cases), no SAN, no RAID, etc. Bu ......

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Earlier this week, we kicked off the second major market presence for the "Lotus Knows" campaign -- "Lotus weiß", here in Germany. The website is up at ibm.com/lotusknows/de. In Germany specifically, this effort incorporates advertising -- online, print, and "out of home" (e.g. Frankfurt Airport) ......

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eWeek has a good summary today of the state of the cloud-based messaging and collaboration market...Google finds itself in a daunting position on Feb. 22, the third birthday of Google Apps Premier Edition. The company is trying to dislodge legacy on-premises installations from Microsoft and IBM whil ......

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I've been meaning to blog about this for quite some time, because I think it's cool engineering and an important step for Notes that may have been mostly overlooked. In Notes 8.5.1, we changed the client's spell check engine. The new engine is also used by Symphony and Sametime. It...

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