Episode 56, recorded on Thursday 16th June 2011, discussing IBM’s 100 year anniversary, the Domino and Traveler betas, The Salvation Army’s application for the Christchurch earthquake and more…

(As easy as ABC… Anniversaries, Betas and Christchurch…)

Hosts

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

Guests

Mark Bennett (blog | twitter | company) is IT Director at The Salvation Army in the New Zealand, Fiji, and Tonga territory.

Sam Sawatzky  (twitter | company) is the Computer Services Manager & Part-time Domino Admin for Mennonite Central Committee Canada – an international NGO doing relief and development work.

Ben Chapman (twitter | company) is a Technical Evangelist for Lotus(can we still say that? ;))/IBM Collaboration Solutions in the United States.

Topics

IBM hits 100 

* 100 years since four companies merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation

* In the the Fortune 500 first list (in the 60’s) only 70’something survived into the 90’s

* What does IBM mean to you?

* What will be the big moves of the next 100 years?

* How Stuff Works podcast

Lotus Foundations 

* Is it staging a comeback?

* Parts reinstated into Passport Advantage

* Have seen no announcements or feedback on why this might be – lack of communication when Foundations was withdrawn, again now it has been reinstated…

Is Domino part of the Social Business agenda?

* Does IBM consider Domino to be part of either (or both) the Social Business and Exceptional Web Experience campaigns?

* isn’t it the perfect private cloud?

* Do you think customers and partners understand that Domino is an ‘on-ramp’to Social Business?

* The Social Software Platform You Already Own – Elguji

* Salvation Army relief app for Christchurch earthquake

Notes/Domino 8.5.3 coming soon, now free of NDA 

* Lots of goodies…

* Symbian^3 support and encryption

* over 50% of the Traveler enhancements listed are Android specific (from Ed’s blog)

* GA due in Q3

Traveler 8.5.2.3 released 

* Partial wipe of iPhone – makes use of P.O.