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GURUpalooza

12.30: Rocky closes the session.

12.26: Lot of debate about the contact lists ending with recommendation to "Ask the developers" later on.

12.25: Question on Sametime extended product family. Chris Miller says that there is no getting around having to build a Websphere infrastructure.

12.23: "Are any gurus considering hiring laid-off MS people?" - Yes ... Lotus911 needs janitors!  ;-)

12.21: Richard Schwarz (from the floor) asks for support to a question regarding the RedWikis that he intend to pose at the ask the developers session later.

12.20: Question from about the poor printing features returns a reply from Chris Miller that "Lotus has been the greenest product since it came out", due to nobody printing from it. ;-)

12.18: A question about smartcard integration leads to answers about Chris Linfoot's blog and also points question-poster to Planet Lotus.

12.15: Kevin Pettit asks for opinion on the OpenNTF announcement from the OGS. Nathan explains that IBM is driving the process to setup a non-profit foundation, just like Bruce Elgort and Nathan originally had hoped.

12.12: Question about what to do for code-management in the Notes/Domino environment. Teamstudio "Ciao" is recommended ... by Teamstudio. Bill Buchan remarks that "proper Eclipse-based tools" have been requested for a long time. Rocky has a question on DXL-roundtripping on Ideajam - go vote!

12.10: Chris Byrne asks if the IDOL winners have had a good time and if it has been worth it. "Fun Learning" is the best answer to that question EVER!

12.08: Gab asks the Lotusphere IDOL winners how they feel about the new generation moving into the Lotus-sphere (for lack of better word). As students they test all kinds of tools and just use what is best for them. Gab thinks that more college students should be invited to Lotusphere for free.

12.07: Mitch Cohen asks how many Gurus have been twittering while on stage. Good show of hands.

12.05: "Anybody running Lotus Protector?". Chris Miller has run it and explains that IBM has consolidated a lot of previously available tools into that product and it does play well. There is both an appliance version and a VMWare image.

12.00: IBM support for OpenNTF.org is hailed as a future help for source of information. Also the community itself is plugged as well as the DominoWiki. Discussion get heated. In the end, TRAINING is plugged. Everybody tries to skip over the training bit, but it is pretty essential for understanding the tools and in order to be able to 'perform' as developers. Where are the "Teach yourself Notes/Domino development"?

11.57: Richard Schwartz asks a question about the attendance statement at the OGS (Picciano said "customers" up 2% witch seems impossible - I thought I heard "attendance", but could well be wrong). Some gurus doubt the numbers but say it has "felt busy" this year.

11.55: A question from a customer migrating from Exchange to Notes fills the room with applause. BinaryTree recieves some praise. Question is about format mess-ups between Notes SMTP and Exchange SMTP. Balaban and Gab Davis speaks about email-fidelity tools.

11.53: The community as a whole is asked about what they think of LotusLive. John Head thinks "innovation is good". Bob Balaban (self-proclaimed Notes Treehugger) is fine with it, but confused since he found out that the entire "Bluehouse" concept wasn't on Domino. Balaban also thinks it's good to see IBM attack the markets of Microsoft and others without being 3 years late.

11.50: Andrew Pollack and Bob Balaban loses me completely in some Java-discussion. I love not being a developer.  ;-)

11.45: The panel does a forced introduction. Mooney is Bill Buchan's son ... I'm starting to believe that, actually!
Question on ID-Vault, Chris Miller answers that it really works well, except cross-domain. Also a Nathan recommends some care regarding where to put replicas of the ID-vault.

11.40-ish: "Is the 8.5 Roaming feature ready for Prime-Time?" - Gab Davis thinks so!

11.35: Questions on Xpages and DAOS open the show. Paul Mooney really likes DAOS and plugs his own Show'n'Tell slides, which are really a picture by picture step through the entire process. Good slides (and a great Show'n'Tell). Lotus911 has a DAOS estimator out.

11.30: The entire cast of Disney is on stage for GURUpalooza ... no wait, it's some other guys. No Goofy here ... well, ok - maybe quite a lot of Goofies actually!

Kevin Pettit flipped the "Reserved signs on the first few rows" ... nobody noticed, and they're empty except for Kevin, Deb, Martine Leyrer and a few others.

Rocky Oliver does the introduction. He tells the Carl Tyler Blueman story, and Carl shows up as a blueman despite the charity fundraiser not reaching the intended amount.
 

 Lotusphere  guru January 22nd, 2009