Interesting that it is Lotus Ventura; does that mean it’s sold as a Lotus Notes bundle?
I know I have been very quiet the past month or so but not because I didn’t have anything to say on the contrary lots of stuff is going in my personal life and work at IBM. But now, I can tell you a little bit more about what I have been working on at Lotus for the past months. I am part of the Ventura Team at IBM and we are putting together a suite of Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise. For now I’ll let the Redmond dude summarize:Lotus Ventura is:
* IBM’s BluePages – an end-user oriented directory for storing and looking through people profiles
* Dogear – IBM’s social bookmarking app.
* Activities – a to do list with, of course, much more that just bullet points with things to do.
* Communities – the ‘groups’ part of the application.
* Roller – for blogging. One question is how much IBM’s extended roller vs. used it out of the box. As ever, Sun should be asking themselves why IBM’s the one who’s figuring out selling roller first.?
Lots of glue – things like search (which I need to get more details on), integration with SameTime and otherwise making all the components feel more like a suite rather than just separate things. And, of course, enterprisey things like directory integration and security. And, of course, feeds on everything.
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