Technically anything after 12 midnight goes into the Thursday file.  Kumonos was the hang out for most of the LS Geeks after the trip to Universal. I was surprised to see the new leader of the Lotus brand, Bob Picciano, drinking, singing and dancing with the rest of the Lotus community.  Not something I remember seeing Mike Rodin do.   His drink of choice that night seemed to be the Lotus Koolaid, not the blueish batch produced over the last last couple of years but the vintage yellow stuff with a higher percentage of NSF.   He talked to just about every partner in the room, and was pretty open and easy to engage.

Lotusphere has its own vibe.  I met two people who took vacation and paid their own way down because their employers could not justify the cost. It can be a hellish week, but there is something about the Lotus Notes Community that brings you back.

I visited the developer lab, and talked to the IBM'ers about Quickr.  There was talk that Quickr Next was going to have workflow and version control similar to DomDoc and be out by the end of the year.  Not the feedback I got from the developers.  They gave the impression that Quickr was going to remain lightweight in terms of document mgt functionality, and it was up to Filenet and IBM Content Manager via the Quickr connector to do the heavy lifting. I asked about the Quickr connector for Domino for these two products and I got a mish mash of responses in terms of when that would happen. It is looking more like Doc Mgt with Quickr is going to require  Websphere plumbing if you want to do it this year.

Traveller looked cool. Gives you functionality similar to what you can get with the Blackberry and BES combination, but on non-Blackberry devices such as cell phones.  

At lunch I sat with yet another DomDoc customer.  Huge implementation with thousands of users and several terabytes of data.  Although he agreed the UI was terrible, you could see in his eyes the loyalty in the brand.   I told him about Docova and how we saw it as a good fit for organizations that had DomDoc, needed more functionality than Quickr but did not have the massive storage requirements or the desire to move to Filenet or Content Manger due to cost and complexity.  He offered to have a look at the UI we have come up with and offer some feedback once he digs out after the show.

I flew to Detroit then took a Northwest flight into Kitchener rather than going through Toronto.  It was 10 minutes from the time I deplaned to when I was digging my car out for the drive home.