This Week in Lotus

65: Quality, Security and Openness


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Episode 65, recorded on 18th August 2011, discussing quality at IBM, Lotus Protector 2.8, OpenNTF, IBM’s support for older releases and more…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests




Flemming Christensen (blog | twitter | company | linkedin) is the chief quality architect for IBM Collaboration Solutions responsible for the process by which new releases commit to quality improvements and measure attainment.



Bruce Elgort (blog | twitter | company ) is the Chairman of OpenNTF, Inc., an IBM Champion and also Adviser at Elguji Software, LLC.



Niklas Heidloff (blog | twitter | OpenNTF blog) is is an architect in the IBM Lotus Domino development team and leads IBM’s engagement in OpenNTF including XPages.info.



Sean Brown  (blog | twitter | company | linkedin) is the Product Manager for IBM Lotus Protector, and responsible for all collaboration security solutions including Lotus Protector for Mail Security and Mail Encryption



Topics
Quality at IBM 

* What is quality?
* How do you manage that (i.e. quality as just discussed)?
* How do IBM avoid regression bugs, particularly in very large mature products?
* How do you measure for LotusLive? Is that any different than what you do for on-premises software?
* How do you strike the balance between quality and timeliness?
* IBM releases to OpenNTF – mobile toolkit, extension library etc. Are they under same Quality controls?
* How do you measure whether you’re getting better?

New release of Lotus Protector 

* What is Lotus Protector and what does Collaboration Security mean?
* Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.8

* Protecting your organization with new Data Loss Prevention for files and emails
* Support for IBM Connections and Lotus Quickr (for Websphere Portal)
* New licensing models to better match to customer needs
* What to expect next
* When will we get “sidecar”for Domino and QuickrD?


* Branding still Lotus?

OpenNTF.org 

* Now a Not for Profit organisation

* What’s the rationale?
* What will it mean?
* Why should organisationss become OpenNTF members?


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This Week in LotusBy Stuart McIntyre & Darren Duke