Although this has already been covered by a number of other blogs and this InfoWorld article, this is too big to ignore.
IBM’s Steve Mills (senior vice president of IBM’s software group) and Lotus VP Bruce Morse hosted a press conference earlier this week. At the event, they shared IBM’s strategy for Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC2).
In a move that may bring more business credibility to the iPhone, IBM is expected to announce formally next week at Lotusphere the availability of a mobile version of Notes specifically tailored for the cool Apple gadget.
There are a few clear signs that indicate when a new technology is catching on. The most obvious ones are: 1.) The users suddenly cannot seem to live without it, and 2.) The technology is being used far beyond its originally intended purpose. Email has passed that test many years ago and is still going strong.
My blogging activity has been thin over the last couple of weeks mainly due to travel. This week I am attending the DNUG conference in Bonn. It is always a good sign when independent user groups form around a brand or solution. The Deutsche (German) Notes User Group has been around for over 10 years, and IBM is smart to actively support the group’s meetings and activities. DNUG provides them access to honest opinions and feedback from an almost religious following of longtime Notes users representing many of the largest corporations in the world.
Alan Lepofsky just uncovered a neat new feature in Notes 8 that may save some of us from those embarrassing blind carbon copy (bcc) mistakes. The Notes client now automatically removes the reply-to-all option for emails that the recipient received as a blind copy.
“So now in Notes 8 when you are Bcc’d on an email, you can no longer embarrassingly reply to everyone, considering they (everyone but the original sender) did not know you received the email in the first place!”
Careful though, you can still use reply-to-all for that message directly from your inbox.
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Lotus Notes, while being a robust and flexible messaging platform, has always suffered from its little idiosyncrasies on the client. The Notes client has received a dramatic face-lift with version 8, but there is still room for improvement.
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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