by Vaughan Rivett on March 11, 2010
I have spent the last couple of days at IBM’s Collective Intelligence events in both Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand. Other than it being a great time to connect with some of the IBM people it was also great to see how strong the IBM Lotus product brand is here in New Zealand.
There were a number of topic covered which included Lotus Notes 8.5, Connections and cloud based offerings. There was also a myth-busters session which was a great way to ensure that the people present had an understanding of what Microsoft has been saying to try to damage the IBM brand, but also to understand what the reality actually is.
by Vaughan Rivett on March 5, 2010
Last night I was traveling home from doing business in Wellington. I sat on the plane next to a man who worked for an insurance company. It was interesting to hear his story about how his company had recently migrated to Microsoft Outlook from Lotus Notes.
We had the whole conversation of “who cares about what people use for email, as email is only email after all”. After a few minutes into the flight I decided to get my laptop out (as I usually do) so that I could get some work done. The great thing is that I can run my entire business from anywhere in the world with great ease.
The person sitting next to me started to ask some questions about it. Next thing I knew has was asking for my business card! If I remember, the comment went something like “I think I need to be talking to you about this”.