Understanding Lotus plans for 2007 and beyond
June 5th, 2007
There's been a lot of change within Lotus lately. Sametime and Quickplace have been renamed to... err, Sametime and Quickplace. Lotus Workplace has almost completely disappeared (although parts of the technology have been re-deployed into several other offerings). Notes 8 is just around the corner with it's Eclipse/Expeditor-based client and there's also the new offerings; Quickr and Connections.
If this is all too much for you, If you would like some clarification on the Lotus product range and it's plans for the future, then there are two great resources available:
1. The Burton Group has produced a very good summary of this which is available for free from their web site (registration required)
http://www.burtongroup.com/understandingibmlotus
2. IBM is hosting a live combined eMeeting/TeleConference to discuss and expand on the content in the Burton report. This event is taking place 11am EST on June 5. I would guess that some sort of replay will be available although if you look at the some of their past events the only form of reply is by calling a US number. If you take the live teleconference then there are toll-free numbers in many countries. Plus there's the emeeting format.
https://www-926.ibm.com/events/swgp/swgpus.nsf/agenda?openform&seminar=kwo9CDRU6ES&lang=en