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May 25, 2010

I have blogged about social software before. It will be the third episode (!) of this series..

Since Lotus Connections and Quickr are very hot products in IBM Sales teams, I have read and seen too many presentations, reports or sales documents until now. Frankly, I found many of them useless. Because all vendors, including IBM try to sell social software products as 'yet another corporate software'. They think that it is a matter of 'believing or not' the wind of social software. I define this selling process in a very sarcastic way:

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lotus-connections | lotus-quickr | social-software
2 min read

May 14, 2010

New horizons for Lotus professionals: Mobile Platforms (1)

When I chat with Lotus Professionals around, I see that many are busy with their daily agendas. Most cannot concentrate on developing their expertise. I even know Lotus professionals working in large companies and dealing with non-Lotus systems, which seems abnormal to me.

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mobile | series
4 min read

May 10, 2010

Chain Smart Upgrade for Series of Upgrades

We prefer using smart upgrade during our large deployments. I would like to summarize some issues with the mechanism in this little post. I would be happy if you also share your experiences.

April 26, 2010

On the latest blog, we have discussed whether the concept of Corporate Social Networking Software will spread or not. We have spotted few points: volatility of business habits, pragmatism of stakeholders and importance of management fashions. Now it is time to talk about how this concept has been evolved and what it is like.

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lotus-connections | lotus-quickr | social-software
6 min read

April 19, 2010

Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2 was in managed-beta program since january. Last week, confidentiality has been lifted, which means beta users are now free to talk about improvements in new version.

Of course blogs are raining about new features. I wrapped-up some important features from bloggers:

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blogging | community | domino-admin | domino-dev
3 min read

April 18, 2010

Social Software , or Corporate Social Networking Software is a very trendy topic lately. Blogs , Micro-blogs , Wikis , etc. Although the topic is not mature enough to be printed at special pages of popular business media, the storm is coming.

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lotus-connections | lotus-quickr | social-software
4 min read

April 10, 2010

What is IBM Project Vulcan like? Demo video released...

Last week, Oskar, from IBM CEE Channel, shared this video of Project Vulcan:

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announcement | ibm | notes-client | social-software
1 min read

March 31, 2010

DAOS may not be efficient sometimes

Always saying that we will have disk space savings around 30% using DAOS. But in some specific cases, the feature causes remarkable extra disk usage.

About a month ago, we have implemented DAOS for a customer with 6-7 servers. Yesterday, we have been surprised analyzing some servers to see how much space gained by DAOS feature.

March 23, 2010

ID Vault Upload/Download Problems

ID Vault is one of the most important features introduced in release 8.5. It provides remarkable opportunities to solve some annoying problems of system administrators.

Administrators who implement ID Vault feature, mostly deals with ID Download/Upload issues. Therefore I have decided to create this post to share my experiences about these issues. Since ID Vault is a very new feature, there are lots of problems specific to notes and domino version. As you read the rest of the post, you will notice that getting the latest version of the client and server software (8.5.1 FP1) is a very good idea.