Episode 63, discussing Domino on IBM i, new Notes connectors for Mac, native Connections apps for mobile devices, IBM Connections winning at Bayer and numerous Lotus User Groups…

Hosts

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

Guests

Steve Pitcher (blog | twitter) is Enterprise Systems Manager for Scotsburn Dairy Group, a 200-user SMB in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Steve has been a Domino admin/developer since 2003 and a journalist for MC Press Online since 2009. Scotsburn went from ISP hosted email with no collaboration software to internally hosted Lotus Domino based mail, custom applications, Quickr and Sametime in the last year…all on one IBM i partition.

Lisa Duke (twitter | company) is Business Development Manager for Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc. (also known as STS), an IBM Lotus business partner specializing in collaboration, mobility, and virtualization.  STS also resells IBM System X hardware and related storage.  IBM Champion and friend of Mat Newman.

Sharon Bellamy (blog | twitter | company) is Lead IBM solutions specialist at City University London.Sharon supports all of the IBM / Lotus / Tivoli stack at City and will soon be taking on the Domino implementation at the Cass Business School. IBM Champion and friend of Mat Newman.

Topics

Advocating Domino products on IBM i 

* What Lotus products run on that platform?

* What are the advantages/disadvantages?

* Is iSeries still an expensive platform to run?

* Are the skills out there to manage/host/upgrade?

* Most Sametime components run natively, some (Media Manager, etc.) do not

* No native Connections support

* Plugin support

Notes connectors for Mac 

* Status Updates

* Files

Mobile Clients for Connections released to app stores 

* Release for Android

* iOS and RIM coming soon

* Posts posted then withdrawn, waiting for PR

* Anyone tried them?

* Feel bad for iWildfire and mLinked

IBM Connections wins at Bayer

IAMLUG 

* How was the LUG as a whole?

* What was the attendance like?

* Keynote by Brian

* What did you think?

* What else?

* How did tack it on work?