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EVENT REPORT
Lotusphere reveals details of NextGen and DB2 in Domino
By Mick Moignard
Lotusphere 2003 goes down in my books as one of the best. Not, I think, the best, but quite close. There were new announcements, even if they were initially somewhat confusing. There were plenty of good technical sessions, and I think the technical content of sessions is getting better, too. There was more J2EE and WebSphere stuff, showing Domino developers how to use their skills with WebSphere, and how to use WebSphere with Domino. There was more IBM than before, the use of DB2 under Domino being one example. And Lotusphere is getting longer. There was much more going on the Sunday before the opening session.
Some years back, Lotus added a whole Sunday program to Lotusphere as a pep-talk day for the Business Partners. Then, two or three years back, they added the Jump-start sessions. These are two-hour long sessions designed to give attendees a basic understanding of their subject area. That way, if you have come to Lotusphere to learn about new areas rather than extend knowledge in existing areas, you can get up to speed with a JumpStart before going to more detailed sessions. This year also saw the addition of a parallel track on leveraging IBM and Lotus technologies, intended to show how other IBM product lines--WebSphere, DB2, and Tivoli--can be used from within Notes, Domino, and the other Lotus products. Indeed, this whole area of using IBM's "plumbing" underneath the Lotus products was an ongoing theme of the conference and is to be an ongoing theme of the Lotus product set.
The announcements
I won't go into detail on the announcements. You can get all that elsewhere in this issue of DominoPower. Here's a quick overview.
The "NextGen" product line direction was announced along with some specific products in it. There are new Notes and Domino versions: 6.5 this year and ND7, if that's what it gets called, next year. There are new Sametime and QuickPlace releases coming that run on Domino 6 servers. There are new developer tools--a set of Domino objects for WebSphere Studio coming soon, and a whole new RAD toolkit for WebSphere coming next year.
These were all outlined in the Opening session, which had its highlights, but to be honest, it was pretty mediocre. It started off with a troupe of dancers called Bounce who did their stuff with basketballs, all aimed at introducing Al Zollar handing over the Lotus ball to Ambuj Goyal. Goyal then introduced himself and spoke about his interest in Open Standards. The keynote speaker was Rudi Guiliani, a Notes user and former mayor of New York City. He spoke about leadership and how his leadership qualities, along with some help from Lotus and IBM, helped him lead New York through the aftermath of 9/11.
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