or social computing area, it’s not Microsoft’s fault. Actually, I argued a similar line in my January 2006 article entitled Whose Fault Is It When Collaboration Software Sucks (mainly about Lotus Notes). can be implemented at a tooling level with Lotus Notes or Microsoft SharePoint, or one of the new fancy products. Last week Thomas Vander Wal trashed SharePoint as an enterprise social computing platform in a blog post entitled SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools . He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise 2.0.

My basic comment was: " Microsoft tells you it's wonderful, competitors tell you it's awful, and there's not a lot in between. And Then There is Notes Last Last week, Adriian Bloem, an Analyst at CMS Watch, wrote a blog post on the difference between SharePoint and Lotus Notes . I like what CMS Watch stands for: independent advice for people making decisions about technology. Last year, Anthony Byrne of CMS Watch asked if I would review and comment on their SharePoint Report.

This is obvious and is something which IBM absolutely must execute on prior to Microsoft's O14 release. In fact, during Lotusphere 2008, I laid out such a scenario as part of the ongoing battle between IBM and Microsoft: IBM can use Connections to compete with Microsoft by changing the focus to social computing rather than collaboration and content. One of the items I was hoping to hear at Lotusphere 2009 was outlined in a recent post by Guy Creese, Research Director of our Collaboration And Content Strategies group here at Burton. In his post, " Lotusphere 2009: What

systems out there will have thought through these issues. An Aside to the Lotus Notes Crowd Lotus Notes tried to do all of this but (at least up to version 6.5) Making a business application in Lotus Notes is not drag and drop simple. You have to code. tools such as teqlo , iUpload , Blogtronix , SocialText , Mobilize , BEA’s Project Builder innovation Creators Successful innovation is not about the ideas or inventions; it’s about the people. About Videos Whitepapers Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software October 10th, 2006 There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology.

At one point (late nineties/early 2000's), Microsoft sometimes used the term "directed collaboration" in this regard while IBM talked about contextual collaboration as the "fuzzy front-end" of process-centric work. One could make an argument that in the late eighties and early nineties, Lotus Notes was the dominant ESSP. A partial list of points-to-ponder: Enterprise 2.0

Lots of news around Lotus ... Mainsoft Integrating Notes and SharePoint 2010 ... Mainsoft demo'd the integrating between Lotus Notes and SharePoint 2010. " The software brings the SharePoint 2010-based professional network into the Lotus Notes email client, with support for SharePoint User Profiles and My Sites, making it easy for Lotus Notes users to search for and connect with people they work with. a consequence of the Lotusphere 2010 conference this week ...

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This year's Lotusphere could very well be a make-or-break moment for the Lotus brand and solution portfolio. don't want this post to be a timeline and reflection on what's gone wrong over the past several years with Lotus but I do want to point out the two major themes that have negatively defined IBM's "thought leadership" and competitive positioning vs. Microsoft:    I know that's pretty dramatic - but if you look at this through the lens of history and into the crystal ball of the future, I think it's a pretty accurate statement.

release notes: inability to compete with IBM and Microsoft, no widespread adoption). Both Microsoft and IBM have targeted that scenario for several years. Also, the focus is on Exchange exclusively yet there remains a large amount of Lotus Notes customers that also might be reconsidering their enterprise messaging direction. Last week Oracle announced enhancements to its nascent collaboration platform, Beehive. Team workspaces, web / video conferencing, and integration with desktop productivity tools (including Windows Explorer) were the among the list

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. m part of IBM Lotus Technical Sales, and it is my job to help folks understand what Lotus Connections is and how to use it well. In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .