The Norwegian Lotus User Group's conference is over. The Farris Bad is a classy "Spa Hotel" in the small town Larvik, with nice rooms, tasty (and expensive) food and a wonderful sea view. The 115 attendees got two days packed with technical geeky stuff, presented by Lotus pros like Mary Beth Raven and Ron Sebastian, and by amateurs like myself.
My presentation of Panagenda MarvelClient did not go so well. Even though I had tested the 3-machine demo configuration over and over again, it naturally crashed just before I should start the live demo. The audience instead got a static Powerpoint presentation with none of the juicy stuff. I hope I still managed to give them some clue of what they can gain with a proper 3rd party Desktop Management tool.
During the demo I was hoping to show that you can carry out two weeks of Lotus Admin work within 3-4 hours, and perhaps even more important: Automate most tasks so you never have to spend most of your working hours on boring routine work again. TCO is becoming more and more important, and if you have not tested any management tool yet, I would strongly suggest that you do so while you still have the time. There's many product alternatives out there, for example BCC ClientGenie, Cooperteam Desktop Management, and the MarvelClient.
Other things worth mentioning: Did I see an IBM representative use Lotus Notes 8.5.2 on a Ubuntu 10.04 ? I hope I did, because 8.5.1 does not work and that annoys me. Overheard a few things about the upcoming 8.5.2: Mostly a bug fix release, but some new features: Drag a mail message to the windows desktop to create an .EML file. (I have made the same feature for version 6 and 7..), ability to set a default mail font, and a new multi-threaded replication style. There was also someone mentioning that the ID-files from v 8.5.2 on will no longer be automatically downloaded from the vault when the user logs in, but I may have misunderstood this.
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