IBM held a LotusLive Briefing on Monday, October 4th to review the October 2010 LotusLive update that was being announced on October 5th, Here are some notes from the briefing: Speakers: Ed Brill Sean Poulley Brendan Crotty Sean covered a couple of LotusLive Customer Stories 1. aatranslations 2. Signature Mortgage 3. SIT Group Seamlessly working with people inside or outside the company 1. connecting 700 contractors to work as one team with global clients: Vondle Live & LotusLive 2. Reducing Loan-processing time from 7 days to 24 hours; Silanis eSignLive & LotusLive Ed covered LotusLive Notes - 2nd release since August introduction $5 per month, 25 GB mailbox $10 per month, LotusLive Notes, LotusLive Meetings, LotusLive Engage $2 per month for Traveler - Hybrid model for Notes Client - Notes Traveler Support added in this release Other Oct 2010 features: New Communities Features in LotusLive Engage and LL Conections New Apps added to LotusLive in October 2010 - Tung

Some thoughts on the Lotus product line and their announcements at Lotusphere2009: Lotus Notes & Domino Lotusphere2009 was really the celebration of the 8.5 release. The OGS might have been anti-climatic since the product shipped the Jan 4th, 2009. The conference was all about 8.5, with DAOS, ID Vault, and XPages all over the sessions. We also saw LinkedIn integration coming in the client with a great sidebar app. Project Atlantic became Alloy, the joint project between SAP and IBM. We need to see more of these - official plug-ins or applications for integration or web 2.0 inclusion to the Notes & Domino product line. I was expecting more Lotus Protector announcements but those did not come, but we got the big shocker of the week - IBM was working to add ActiveSync support to Lotus Traveler in 2009. This is a big move for IBM, providing an ability to allow certain devices COUGH iphone COUGH to connect to the Domino server. It will be interesting to see how this works out