"Everybody has been talking about it for some time, so it's nice to see it," said Juergen Zirke, chief executive officer of Paderborn, Germany, software development and services firm Pavone AG, a Lotus partner.
Zirke's company is checking out Workplace to determine how it will mesh its traditional development work with IBM's new approach. The transition would be problem-free if connecting Domino applications with Workplace applications worked as effortlessly as it did during the presentation demo, Zirke said with a laugh.
Does he expect real-world integration to work so easily? "No, not really," he said -- though he noted that IBM has a good track record of following through on its development promises.
Another audience member said the presentation was her first look at Workplace. Checking out the system is her main reason for attending the conference, said Astrid Binc, a Lotus Notes administrator for the New York State Comptroller's office.
"I've got to find out more about Workplace so I know what to recommend to the management," Binc said. She liked some aspects demonstrated, like the all-in-one portal interface Workplace offers, but said she would need detailed information at conference sessions to get a better sense of the platform's advantages and drawbacks.
The opening session's length and scope made it difficult to follow, said Binc's colleague Tina Sgambelluri. "They threw an awful lot of information out there," she said.
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