Just hitting the 100 people mark at
the event. They have been warned to interact with the speakers and
are doing a great job so far! As usual, its running late and currently
Duff
and Daniel
are giving their sessions. Ed
was on for the keynote, and gave
an excellent summation of the current strategy, including details on the
7.02 release, Activity server, Notes Nomad and more. I will publish
details as I go on later on.
Found this morning by Duff and I downstairs
in my house….
Yesterday, I collected Ed
and also met Kathleen
and brought them on a small tour.
I left them to their devices and then hooked up yesterday evening
for a small pub crawl, albeit with very little consumption of alcohol.
Today began early… very early. First
to meet Libby
and give (and her tribe) directions
to their hotel from the Airport. Next, wait for Mr
Duff and then Warren
and Kitty.
They are all out and about in town whilst I head back home to get
some last minute stuff done. Bill is en route now, and then its off
to collect Volker
and get him to his hotel. After
that, its to the Alexander
hotel then Neary’s.
Tomorrow starts at 7am…. Think
I will need a holiday after this.
Best way into the city centre is using
Aircoach.
It is quick and cheap. We plan to meet up in the Alexander
hotel between 6 and 7pm to show
sponsors/speakers the rooms and then head on possibly for food and/or drink.
Afterwards, my suggestion of local pub
is Nearys,
which is walking distance from St Stephens Green. My mobile number
is +353862838545 if anyone needs to get in touch with me.
In fact the present was so big… I
had to collect it from my local post office. Here is a picture of
the box that barely fit into my car (with my dogs nearby).
What could be int it? Its from
Scotland?… Its from Warren
and Kitty!
So I open and unwrap… and unwrap…and unwrap
and unwrap
and find this…
We play tricks on each other.. We
get each other bad
presents.
They have just "upped the game".
Of course…… this does mean war…
With an already massive collecton of domino nuts, geeks, nerds, developer weirdos (they give me a rash), admin weenies (thanks for that one Rocky) you would think we couldnt get any more in the room on the 16th June. Well… that’s where you are wrong laddie boy! Steve Castledine is coming over for the day to say hello and say a few words.
That makes it official. This is the biggest collection of Lotus bloggers/crew in one place, with the exception of Lotusphere. This is gonna be fun…..
Photo taken from a site I was on today.
Excuse the poor quality (taken with my HTC Wizard phone), but 240
days up would get my "solid" approval.
Well… I would love to say it
was because they wanted to offset the hype on the ILUG
day, but I know we are farrrrr
from that important. Click
here for details.
There is a new Microsoft Application
Transporter.
"Today,
Wednesday, June
7th, we are shipping the new Microsoft Application Transporter 2006
for Lotus Domino, as well as updated versions of Application Analyser 2006
and the Exchange-Lotus Notes Mail Connector. The Microsoft Application
Transporter 2006 is a tool that transfers data from Lotus Notes applications
to Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS).
The availability of our tools
will help customers make the transition from Lotus Notes to the Microsoft
collaboration platform easier, faster and more cost effectively.
Key features of the new
Microsoft Application Transporter 2006
Migrate
custom applications using modified data mapping files."
Please look at the image that is used
as an example. I would imagine this will most likely set Duff
off in a rant. It is a crappy
Notes database migrated to WSS. Of course it is…. If they used
a professional Notes database in the example, people would be wondering
why the hell you would migrate!
Also, much better than that…. there
is a new Application Analyser. So… what has changed in it compared
to the old one.
"Microsoft
Application Analyser 2006
Now… I have not installed this tool…
but let me guess. MS
have not figured out how to get the application usage stats correctt.
So now they flag a database when the "Maintain Last Accessed
Property" field is not checked. Which it isn’t on most production
databases because it kills performance and is OFF BY DEFAULT!
So… I have hit a moment of truth.
Is there any point to me looking at the new one, and comparing to
many
reviews
in the
past…
Or should I leave it with a simple "This tool sucks – don’t
trust it or the reports that it can create"
and call it a day…..
Any comments?
DNA Network Analysis is now also sponsoring the ILUG event. I have been a fan of this product for some time, and it is well worth looking at, especially if you are a larger scale server architect looking at consolidation. Information about them will be posted to the ILUG site and sponsor list/schedule in the coming hours.
