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(via Adam Gartenberg) New Sametime 7.5 flash demo available

We just posted a new Sametime 7.5 flash demo to the updated Sametime homepage. It’s designed to not just highlight the capabilities of Sametime, but to do so using a realistic business example as a backdrop. If you’ve got people in your organization who are still questioning the business value of IM or Web conferencing, here’s a good conversation starter.

Find it here: http://www.ibm.com/lotus/sametime

(registration required)

FAQ: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino licensing

IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino software delivers enterprise-grade collaboration capabilities, across a wide range of uses and applications. It can be deployed as core e-mail and enterprise scheduling infrastructure, as a custom application platform, or both. This extensive breadth of uses also creates a wide array of deployment scenarios. The Lotus Notes and Domino licensing model supports all of these scenarios, in ways that make it easy to acquire and deploy.

The latest fix pack has been released for WebSphere Portal

Abstract IBM WebSphere® Portal periodically provides service releases integrating code fixes for the product. The following is a complete listing of fixes for Version 5.1 with the most recent fix pack at the top.
Further details are here

Jupiter Webcasts Presents… Jumpstart SOA: Run ASP.NET Apps Natively on IBM WebSphere Portal On Demand Webcast

During this one-hour technical web seminar, Mainsoft, the leading cross-platform company, and IBM will explore the common challenges of implementing SOA in a mixed Portal environment, including both .NET AND Java components. Unlike remoting solutions such as Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), Mainsoft and IBM take a fundamentally different approach, enabling customers to run ASP.NET applications natively on IBM WebSphere Portal as JSR-168 portlets. We’ll compare and contrast
remoting vs. the Mainsoft approach, addressing the end-user experience as well as speed to deployment and ease-of-maintenance. We will also demo how to port existing ASP.NET applications to WebSphere Portal running on Linux and extend WebSphere Portal’s rich end user functionalities to .NET Web applications and services. These features include an end-to-end, single sign-on experience; consistent branding across ASP.NET and Java applications; full click-to-action support between ASP.NET and Java portlets; Workplace
People Awareness for ASP.NET applications and full integration into WebSphere Portal navigation.

(Registration required)

developerWorks article: IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Developing Eclipse rich client applications for the WebSphere platform

This article is an overview on developing Eclipse rich client applications for the IBM WebSphere platform. Learn why the Eclipse rich client for WebSphere is an attractive combination for developing an end-to-end solution.

developerWorks Article: Develop and deploy Web applications with IBM WebSphere Everyplace Deployment Version 6

In this article, you’ll learn how to develop client services applications for IBM WebSphere Everyplace Deployment using the WebSphere Everyplace Client Toolkit. The toolkit, which extends the IBM Rational Software Development Platform integrated development environment (IDE), enables you to develop and deploy Java applications with rich user interfaces that can run on wireless devices.

developerWorks article: Discover location awareness in IBM Lotus Sametime V7.5

No matter where you are IBM Lotus Sametime V7.5 can find you with its new location awareness feature. Learn about the server-side and client-side mechanisms for location awareness and get a peak at a plug-in that uses location data to bring you local attractions.