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LS11 Ask the Product Managers - what I want answered

Darren Duke  January 23 2011 11:30:15 AM
Will the session be completely locked down? Who knows. Still after the furore of the last week or so I figured I'd get my questions out in public so as not to appear a "negative Nancy". For the record I think Lotus developers, managers and executives should use the exact same version of Notes that you sell.
  • When will I be able to invite others to a meeting that I'm a participant in? I occasionally have minions others I need with me on trips to client sites, conf calls, etc. Adding them now is a bitch.
  • Quickr Utility Express - or equivalent. Several (now rotated out) executives and PMs have promised this in the past. What is so hard to understand here? Do you guys not want to sell to SMBs? (my definition of SMBs, not IBM)
  • Sametime on a single box.
  • Sametime reflector. When? This is killing you. And I cannot recommend this product to my customers until you fix this long running over-sight.
  • Connections on a single box. I know IBM sells server, but really, should I have to buy all the IBM servers?
  • Foundations......erm......just WTF?  
  • Websphere has socket licensing, why not Domino/Connections/Sametime et al?
  • Come on spill the beans.....Vulcan "is a product" and runs on Websphere right?
  • What is IBM doing to solve the Fubar'd LotusLive ordering process?
 
You never know, some of these may get answered well before the scheduled session on Thursday at 11:15 (ASK102). If not, I consider this fair warning of the types of questions that a PM should be prepared to answer.

Do you have any?

Update :

From Twitter : Connectors for Mac (also I'd say connectors for Office 2010 and 64bit Win 7)
Comments

Gravatar Image  1David Schaffer  1/23/2011 12:13:26 PM  A good start

Connectors for Mac is huge.

Also, how about the much-heralded Lotus backwards compatibility? Why should upgrading Domino break the product running on it (Quickr, Sametime, etc.)

Interoperability. Support actually told me remove the Notes.ini entries for DUCS and Quickr when troubleshooting a client because they were third-party products!

Gravatar Image  2Odd Åge Skogheim  1/23/2011 12:15:12 PM  Connectors for Citrix

Until Quickr comes with connectors for Citrix, its no use for us

Gravatar Image  3Roy Rumaner  1/23/2011 12:32:00 PM  Additional questions

I will not be able to attend this session so please push the Foundations issue as much as possible. That platform was the perfect entry into SMBs and now it is dead in the water. Why?

Also, how about we get IBM to officially tell us if they would rather sell the Websphere server and it's associated products instead of Lotus Notes & Sametime. The answer to that will tell us where IBM thinks the future is going to be and whether we will have a viable product in the next five years.

As for Vulcan, since it appears today that it is a Websphere product, we might already have the answer to that question.

Gravatar Image  4Ed Brill  1/23/2011 12:47:23 PM  Seem reasonable to me

well, most of them anyway :-)

Gravatar Image  5Richard My  1/23/2011 12:50:46 PM  LS11 Ask the Product Managers - what I want answered

I love to have IBM finally acknowledge what they are doing with Foundations, provide a clear message that Vulcan and Notes/Domino is a Websphere product. Notes/Domino is already becoming a Websphere product with all the Workplace code in it. Imagine NSF only as a Websphere container.

Gravatar Image  6Tim E. Brown  1/23/2011 1:39:15 PM  Quickr 8.5.1 for Domino support on Domino 8.5.2 and Quickr Fixlist

Have I missed something, but why is Quickr 8.5.1 for Domino, not supported on Domino 8.5.2?

Also, why is it that all other Lotus products have a fixlist website, but Quickr does not? There fixlist are always provided with the fix itself or provided via a technote.

-Tim E. Brown

Gravatar Image  7Bob Balaban  1/23/2011 2:18:12 PM  Ask the PMs Questions

Here are few I'd like to get answers to:

1) When will Xpages be ported to WAS?

2) Why was the published Lotus revenue down 3% in q4, when Websphere's was up 30%? What is being done to fix it?

3) When will partners and customers be able to deploy apps on LotusLive for Notes and web?

Gravatar Image  8Bruce Elgort  1/23/2011 2:37:24 PM  Future of Quickr and one other

1) What is the future of Quickr on Domino

2) How can college students develop and showcase their Lotus XPages apps to the world.

Gravatar Image  9Darren Duke  1/23/2011 4:21:27 PM  LS11 Ask the Product Managers - what I want answered

And another one from me, when will Lotus Protector for Mail Security be (a) available as cloud and (b) have the oft talked about Domino add-in task for "side-car scanning"?

Gravatar Image  10Flemming Riis  1/23/2011 6:31:54 PM  Blackberry

will there ever be a heavly discounted version of domino available (license wise) to only be used for blackberry state databases.

Gravatar Image  11Adam Brown  1/24/2011 4:33:59 AM  64 bit connectors

1)When will the Quickr/Connections Connectors fully support 64 bit windows.

2) also bring on Xpages on Websphere.

Wish I was there to ask. Someone do it for me!

Gravatar Image  12Craig Davies  1/24/2011 6:23:17 AM  Quickr Connectors and Ipad

Can I add my voice to the Quickr Connector on Mac...While we are at it, can IBM support/buy/license the excellent snappfiles and support/grow it for connectors style access on the iPad?

Gravatar Image  13Mark Hughes  1/24/2011 11:12:15 AM  Offline X-Pages? - no not in the client, like DOLS was supposed to work

Offline X-Pages? - no not in the client, like DOLS was supposed to work

Gravatar Image  14Kevin Mort  1/24/2011 7:10:23 PM  3rd parties

Figure out some way to get 3rd parties like Cisco to stay current with their integration of your product like they handily do with Microsoft.

Sure there are other phone system vendors out there in with IBM. But really it isn't like Cisco's a bit player.

Lotus seems to be an afterthought, yet whenever the latest Office iteration is released it seems like they're all right there & ready day 1.

Apple came back from the brink with iPod & iPhone. What will IBM Lotus do which will make the technology consumer, both personal and corporate sit back and say 'WOW!' there is an awful lot of convincing to do.

Gravatar Image  15Lisa Duke  1/26/2011 6:13:18 PM  And another thing

When will Lotus Live work for BlackBerry smartphones?

+1 on Quickr for SMB. If the "Express" name is the hold up, call it something else. The name is not important. What's important is being able to publish something to the web without paying $30,000. You know, like Utility Express, that's about $2,000? That would be awesome.

Gravatar Image  16Tim Larson  2/25/2011 12:46:17 PM  quickr connector for ADOBE?

seeing others asking for this since 08. Any chance?

Gravatar Image  17Darren Duke  2/26/2011 8:39:45 PM  quickr connector for ADOBE?

I doubt it. Still PMR the request and see what they say.

Gravatar Image  18Pettrie de Bondt  5/20/2011 9:57:56 AM  When will the Quickr/Connections Connectors fully support 64 bit windows

It was already asked here but, please please:

When will the Quickr/Connections Connectors fully support 64 bit windows!

We need this

Gravatar Image  19Darren Duke  5/20/2011 10:35:35 AM  When will the Quickr/Connections Connectors fully support 64 bit windows

They are working on it now (finally). I don't have an official date but I've heard Q2-3 2011 as the target.

Gravatar Image  20Kim van den Berg  8/24/2011 7:29:19 AM  Quickr iPad

Looking at the topics, I think you might find this interesting: Quickr iPad, with which it is possible to download, upload and synchronize Quickr attachments directly with the iPad (or other mobile device) without accessing Quickr or using connector software. There is a free download available for one person. More information: { http://www.lialis.com/lotussolutionprovider.nsf/pages/quickrwebdav }

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