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Lotusphere 09 Opening Session LIVE!

9.55: Don't forget tomorrows UC2 keynote. Things are changing!



9.50: Sametime 8.5 Meetings no longer uses Java-applets but only HTTP.

Support for persistant meeting rooms.

Ron and Suzanne are back to demo Sametime Meetings and show a new Rich Client experience compared to the browser environment.


9.45: Ron and Suzanne demo Sametime Unified Telephony. Very cool and very easy seamless integration of all aspects of telephony.

Uh-Oh ... The Blue Man Group interrupted the call, and Ron has to run backstage!

Bruce Morse announces Sametime support for the iPhone.


9.40: Bruce Morse takes the stage and talks about Business Processes and UC2.

9.35: Kevin is addressing business partners. IBM will sponsor OpenNTF.org and have created "Smartmarket" for marketing of BP apps.

He also talks about appliances.

9.30: We're at the halfway point! (Lenovo is kinda hot and reports 1.19 left on the battery - perhaps I should look into a more power-conserving profile?!)

XPages plays well with mobile devices. Ron does a Blackberry live demo.



9.28: Kevin is back to plug XPages, and he sends Suzanne and Ron off on a VERY cool demo of development in designer 8.5 with XPages. WOW!


9.25: Live text and widgets demo. vCal integration. I love Ron and Suzanne. Talki about tight demo'ing. I can't remember the last time those two had a 'glitch' - it's extremely convincing!




9.15: Time for the usual suspects to tour the stage. First up is Alistair Rennie, then Kevin Cavanaugh.

Project "Atlantic" is now "Alloy" as Demo-god Ron Sebastian and Demo-goddess Suzanne Minassian takes the stage to demo (well ... duh).

9.12: Bob announces that "Bluehouse" as of 7AM today is no longer "Bluehouse" but now "LotusLive".
Was that really a good choice of name? www.lotuslive.org

9.05: Bob promises that partners will prosper.

He talks about RIM Blackberries and introduces Jim Balsillie.

Blackberry has a 10-year anniversary today.
RIM already supports Notes/Domino 8.5 today - only 10 days after the official 8.5 release.


9.00: HSBC takes the stage with Ian Haynes.




8.54: Bob is back.

He hails the integrated Web 2.0 capabilities in the Notes 8 client and talks portal and mashup environments.

John Dunning, VP of Netjets takes the stage.

John Dunning talks about Netjets "Bom Dia" portal with Quickr and Connections integration.

IBM Lotus should give out a Netjet share as a beacon award - and I don't mean shares as in "stock market", but a share of a private jet!  ;-)

8.50: From my vantage point at the back, I can honestly say: My camera SUCKS!!!

I'm willing to shamelessly say nice things about Canon, Nikon, Sony, Casio, Olympus or any other sponsor that can get me a new camera.  ;-)

My Lenovo Netbook rocks, though!


8.48: Jean Michel Ares of Coca-Cola takes the stage.

He talks about the integration of social software in the company.

8.45: Bob Picciano is back and speaking about RESSONANCE being this year's theme.

"Ressonance breaks windows"




THE GUEST SPEAKER IS : Dan Aykroyd!

Aykroyd talks about the process of moviemaking and relations between actors and crew.



8.30 sharp, and Bob Picciano takes the stage to a picture of his Lotus Connections profile.

He talks about his wife Deidra being a Lotusscript developer.

Lotus has added 12000 new customers since releasing Notes R8.


8:20 - Off to an early start as BLUE MAN GROUP has taken the stage!!!

The do "Drum bone" and a selection of Rock Concert Movements.




8.10: Pre-show stage setup.

 Lotusphere  OGS January 19th, 2009