ComputerWorld Australia has a really nice write-up of some of the themes that might be uppermost in IBM’s message at Lotusphere over the next few days:
IBM next week will spend less time at its annual Lotusphere conference introducing new products and more time upgrading and aligning the pieces of its current software portfolio with real-time communications, collaboration, social networking and composite applications.
The company’s annual Lotusphere show in Orlando (January 21-24), which has been attracting more and more attendees over the past few years after several smaller editions, will focus on educating users on 2007’s glut of new products.
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So while IBM focused on the user interface in 2007 built around its common Lotus Expeditor and Eclipse frameworks, 2008 is about tying everything together on the back end.
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One subtle change to help the non-Notes users grasp the message is that IBM is dropping its “composite application” term in favor of the popular Web 2.0 terms “mashup” and “widgets.”
I really like the sound of “widget” by the way 😉
Well worth reading the article in full.