"In case you haven't noticed, IBM Lotus not only didn't go away, it's here with a vengeance" is how Ted Schadler of Forrester Research summarizes many of the newest initiatives by Lotus. Ted explains that Sametime 8.5 is a major overhaul, "an important...

This week I was speaking with a very good friend at IBM/Lotus, who provides pre-sales technical support: he knows his stuff. "You know," he tells me, "Lotus is moving too fast. It's really hard to keep up with all the new stuff." Which is true. There...

InformationWeek Executive Editor, Fritz Nelson, writes on the importance of customer engagement as the "future of the web." Words like "crowdsourced," "social," and "sticky" are simple labels for complicated ingenuity. Anyone who sets out to create...

My company has formally committed to a full scale Lotus Notes 8.5 upgrade for all servers and clients. It was not a mindless choice, but the consequence of a long deliberation over competing platforms and Domino functionality. UltraLite and DAOS were...

When I go to Lotusphere, it's for finding answers. Curiously, "Lotus Connections" has become something of a sleeper hit. Those who work with it claim it's Collaboration 2.0. Michael Cote quotes a tweet by James Governor: holy shiv. just confirmed:...