Ah, endlich.
Lotus Connections (aka
Ventura).
Lotus Connections is the productized suite of several „Web 2.0” technologies, like:
* IBM’s BluePages - an end-user oriented directory for storing and looking through people profiles
* Dogear - IBM’s social bookmarking app.
* Activities - a to do list with, of course, much more that just bullet points with things to do.
* Communities - the „groups” part of the application.
* Roller - for blogging. One question is how much IBM’s extended roller vs. used it out of the box. As ever, Sun should be asking themselves why IBM’s the one who’s figuring out selling roller „first.”
* Lots of glue - things like search (which I need to get more details on), integration with SameTime and otherwise making all the components feel more like a suite rather than just separate things. And, of course, enterprisey things like directory integration and security. And, of course, feeds on everything.
