Episode 53, recorded Monday 23rd May 2011, live in Manchester at UKLUG 2011…

Hosts

Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)

Guests

Mary Beth Raven (blog | twitter) is IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in the Lotus User Experience Design team

Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Educaiton for ISW (an IBM Premier business partner in Australia, and this years winner of the IBM South-East Asis Business Partner of the Year award), Mat is a Lotusphere speaker of repute and renown and owner of the coolest yellow suit around!

Julian Robichaux (blog | twitter | company) is Programmer/developer at SNAPPS. iPhone, Java, IBM, Lotus Notes, etc. Accidentally funny at times.

Bill Buchan (blog | twitter | company) is a technology consultant, focused on enterprise collaborative applications. I’m based in North-east Scotland but work all over Europe, and sometimes I present at technology conferences using a mixture of deep-technology and humour to keep the audience awake.

Topics

We’re live at UKLUG 2011, how’s the conference

Talk about the keynote – get social, little notes and domino

A plug for Auslug

What will Lotus be called?

Should IBM give away solutions for free?

Are we in danger of becoming disliked as Microsoft is?

Is Microsoft still the most significant vendor for integration and competition?

Mobile first application development strategy?

Does data all have to held remotely with the cloud?

Does the need for partners go away with the cloud?

Tips

No tips this week, sorry!