Comment posted by Eric Mack04/29/2008 11:44:04 AM
Homepage: http://www.EricMackOnline.com
It would be great to have a Domino-based solution for this functionality.
Comment posted by Benoit Dubuc04/29/2008 12:06:24 PM
Homepage: http://www.benoitdubuc.com
Just like Quickr, I think it would be a good idea to have a Domino based version for companies that don't want to invest to acquire additional software. I think the market would be a bit bigger with this offer. After all, not all companies have 50 000+ employees!
Comment posted by Jason Hook04/29/2008 12:41:58 PM
Bruce,
My impression is Connections requires too much investment in terms of additional software, hardware and skills so not interested.
However something offering 80% the features running on Domino would be worth a look.
Comment posted by Rob McDonagh04/29/2008 12:43:59 PM
Homepage: http://www.CaptainOblivious.com
Connections Lite would be interesting.
Connections itself is too big. It's like Portal, in terms of the sort of corporate project that would be required to use it in my company - large budget, large effort, CxO-level sponsorship.
Comment posted by Vaughan Rivett04/29/2008 01:51:53 PM
Homepage: http://st1.rivettassociates.com/Web/Vaughans.nsf
I don't know a lot about Lotus Connections and I was making the assumption that it was Domino based (being that it is a Lotus product).
I am interested in taking a serious look at it, but just have not had the time to do so at this point.
As per what you will see on my blog I am really starting to look at the options the are available with web 2.0 applications. 
Comment posted by Fred Janssen04/29/2008 02:33:17 PM
Homepage: http://www.bigbearfreddy.com
I've been tasting Connections over the last 2 months. Great product, but for smaller companies the investment in a separate server is to big.
Running Connections like functions on Domino would be great. As Blogs and Wiki's are already available and Profiles shouldn't be to difficult to build, I expect the majority of the work t go into Activities and DogEar (didn't I see like DogEar around the BlogoSphere a few days ago?).
I an very much interested in creating and/or support such a product-line.
Fred
Comment posted by Ben Poole04/29/2008 02:43:10 PM
Homepage: http://benpoole.com
But why would you ask such a thing?? 
Together with m'learned ex-colleagues John & John, a few years back I worked on a "Connections Lite" type-thang in Domino... I'd say there's definitely a market for such a thing done well (ours was done quickly, so... meh).
Comment posted by Henning Heinz04/29/2008 03:18:41 PM
I follow Connections with some interest but Social Software is a hard sell in my market (and maybe generally in Germany).
Comment posted by John Head04/29/2008 03:37:27 PM
you need to get this poll out to people outside the community. Your numbers are not going to be representative ... I have heard from IBMers that Lotus Connections is the fastest selling Lotus product ever. I doubt the people that read your blog will ever give you that feedback.
Comment posted by Tim Paque04/29/2008 03:40:25 PM
I'm waiting for antisocial software to come out, so I can hide!
Comment posted by Nathan T. Freeman04/29/2008 03:54:48 PM
Homepage: http://nathan.lotus911.com
As covered in our TakingNotes podcast about Bleedyellow.com, most people overestimate the complexity of setting up a Connections environment. It's really not that big a deal.
That said, I could think of lots of reasons to have it on a Domino platform. Certainly auditioning the technology would be a lot easier.
I think some parts of it will have trouble scaling, though. Dogear, in particular, has the opportunity to grow exponentially, if done right. I've got a long history of building highly scalable systems on the Domino platform, and I'd be hesitant to try to scale an enterprise link-tracking system with rankings and tag data in an NSF. Maybe for orgs of < 100 people.
Comment posted by Keith Brooks04/29/2008 05:58:06 PM
Homepage: http://lotustech.blogspot.com
Heard the "fastest selling product in history" line, but won't venture what that means(licenses, revenue, number of servers, number of corps or clients).
While the install does not worry me, the extra box and requirements do if you are a small shop. But if you are a small shop, why would you use such a thing anyway when free or online versions already exist?
Personally I want Beehive to come out.
Comment posted by Bruce04/29/2008 06:28:32 PM
@Nathan,
Watch us
Comment posted by Tim Lorge04/29/2008 09:14:05 PM
Homepage: http://www.groupwarenews.com
We are. I've got a project under development that will feature Connections in a release later this year. I'm still trying to figure out all the integration points but that is the fun of it, isn't it?
