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Lotusphere 2009 - predictions

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Some predictions for Lotusphere 2009:
  • Attendance will be up significantly - book early kids - my money is on the numbers crashing through the 8000 barrier for the first time in a few years
  • The Notes/Domino 9.0 feature set will be announced
  • It will be MUCH harder to pick sessions (like it was so easy before, right?), given the incredible number of 2008 announcements that will have become released products by then:
    • Quickr 8.1
    • Connections 2.0
    • Foundations
    • Mashups
    • Notes/Domino 8.0.1 including Traveler
    • Notes/Domino 8.5 including Domino Designer in Eclipse
    • "BlueHouse"
  • Dan Lyons will say something crap and stupid, again (will he ever grow up?)
  • Microsoft will release a set of spoiler announcements, yet again (will they ever grow up?)
  • The opening general session special guest speaker will be better than 2008 (hardly a challenge) but not as good as Neil Armstrong in 2007
  • The purple websphere logo will have disappeared and there'll be a "new" Lotus Portal product (okay, this may be wishful thinking ... 2010?)
  • There will be at least one complete surprise new product announcement - as surprising as Connections in 2007 and Foundations in 2008 - and it will be another low-end SME-based play
  • Paul Mooney will purchase unfeasible quantities of sake in Kimono's
  • Wild Bill will have another significant birthday
  • The Lotus911 crowd will ask a minimum of three questions at the 'Ask the Developers' session

What other predictions do you have for Lotusphere 2009?

Posted by Julian Woodward On 02/05/2008 |

Comments

Gravatar Image1 - ... that I'll be there!

(Exits like the ASW he is...)

Posted by Ben Poole At 12:12:30 On 05/02/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Isn't that what they call a 'self-fufilling prophecy'?

Posted by Julian Woodward At 12:38:15 On 05/02/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - ... that Microsoft will announce an unsolicited bid for IBM. Emoticon

... that the really really cool web designer client demoed at the opening session of LS 2005 will finally be released.

... that I might actually attend as a paying attendee rather than the freeloader I have been in the past.

Posted by Jerome E Carter II At 16:10:31 On 05/02/2008 | - Website - |