So 45 days have passed since starting the new role, so its 45 elapsed days and only 26 working days due to weekends, holiday and bank holidays. Having a blast so far with learning loads of new products not just Beehive, but lots of familiar concepts and architectures due to JEE. Have spent some time build and demoing the product whilst learning on the job in terms of the capabilities of Beehive.
Looking forward to the start of the new quarter which looks like it will be very busy with lots of interesting leads coming in now for the product. Likely to be a trip to Netherlands soon and then we shall see where else I need to go. One thing I have noticed that I have been so busy that my blog and twitter entries have tailed off a lot, but hopefully I will address that soon.
It is good to see that Mac’s have been embraced by the Oracle population as a business tool although its not standard issue. As with other companies it is creeping in as an alternative. Wondering if I should try the Linux desktop at some stage but this will need me to run a VMWare client image for some demos especially the Outlook integration. Nice to see a large number of iPhone in use and the option to use either IMAP or push IMAP service on it. Enjoying using the Blackberry 8900 as a busy device especially with its huge battery life. I will see what Apple do with the WWDC event in a week or so with the iPhone, might be worth upgrading if battery life is better.
I have loads of training materials to get through over the next month and need to look at what other training materials I want to do in the coming year. My training schedule has been something like this:
- Induction to Oracle
- Product and Development Training on Beehive
- Sales Training
- Red Stack Training (Beehive related products only)
Look at development tools as well to gain an understanding of the art of the possible going forward. Other areas will be related to portals and other E2.0 products including ECM, RM and IRM.
I will post a similar update in a month or two….
Cool Keynote session on social networking with HSBCs Ian Haynes on stage talking about how they use connections. There was PLI and SuccessFactory on stage talkling about there experiences with Connections
Mac to the Future session
Overview of what Lotus is doing in this space..
Lotus Notes 8.5
- Feedreader, Sametime, Widgets, CAE
- Spotlight support for searching
- Unicode
- Cross-platform support migrate Window to Mac
- Multi-user support, run from any user account
- MAC keystrokes supported in RTE
- Mighty Mouse support
- Java agent support
- PErformance
- Applescript
- NSD crash protection
Lotus Notes 8.5.1
- Symphony support directly in client and support for activities plugin
- Improvements UI in conjunction in Apple UI team
- Use iWork bundles seamlessly as attachments (Round trip, fidelity)
- FTI for attachements
- Quality improvements
Dragging objects such as graphic in safari into an email demoed, drag contacts from ST embedded to email to, cc, bcc, body fields, neat features. Support for bundles is cool, support for spotlight looking good.
Symphony on MAC
Sametime Meetings on MACs cool and about time… Adding livescreen share from 1 mac to any other platform. Lotus Connections Firelox support 2 on Tiger and Leopard, Investigating support for FF3 and Safari 3.1 for 2.5 of connections.
iNotes back instead of DWA fully supports safari on the MAC working with Apple and of course ultralite support for iPhone.
In symphony, can do Open send to mail….auto attaches the presentaion/doc or spreadsheet, Offline activities will work and all looking cool. Nice support for ST Unyte.
iPhone Applications support coming soon
- Connections Application on iPhone
- Sametime support on iPhone
More to come in 2009
So big Mac & Apple fan so thought that I would dump a list of what I have and use at home for my real computing needs.
Hardware:
- MacBook – First Gen Black 2GB RAM, 200GB 7200rpm Disk
- Mac Mini – First Gen – PowerPC 1GB RAM, 80GB 4200rpm Disk
- Samsung 19inch 4:3 Monitor
- Samsung 32inch TV for Mac Mini
- Apple Wireless Keyboard
- iPhone 8GB
- MS Wireless Keyboard & Mouse – About to be retired due to sticky keys
- Various External USB drives
- Numark USB Mixer plus M-Audio unit
- Technics SL1200Mk2 Sliver
- Technics Amp/CD/EQ/Tape/Radio Separates
- Mission Speakers
Software:
- Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard
- Apple Aperture
- Apple iWorks 08
- Apple iLife 08
- OpenOffice 3
- VMWare Fusion 2
- Firefox
- Filezilla
- Tweetdeck
- NI Trackor DJ Studio 3
Todays partial experiment with some changes in presentation content went OK, I suspect this will be a long road and not everyone will like. Now planning activities to do over the Xmas period ideas so far:
- Rebuild main laptop as it runs like a dog, has not been done for around two years and need clearing down
- Clean up MacBook and organise my photos
- Prep technology for Lotusphere 2009 trip
In additional to the above I need to do loads around the house and chill out so lets see how things go..
