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Project Vulcan - the future of IBM Lotus
January 19, 2010 | Author: Adam Levine
The geek-developer dream comes true: a full-on collaboration environment with an open API and a name right out of Star Trek. Today at the Lotushpere conference IBM unveiled Project Vulcan - the new cloud platform for collaboration and social tools, that is already compared to Google Wave. But unlike Google Wave, Vulcan - is not a separate application, but an integrated environment for all future and existing Lotus apps, including Lotus Notes and LotusLive. Vulcan will be available to developers in the second half of 2010, and meanwhile it will be available to LotusLive Labs team, which has already shown 4 new projects for LotusLive:
- Concord - an online word processor and spreadsheets for LotusLive with collaborative features
- Slide Library - a tool for creating and sharing online presentations
- Collaborative Recorded Meetings - a tool that records web-conferences and transcripts voice to text
- Composer - tool for creating Mashups on LotusLive
In addition, IBM has opened LotusLive API for all developers (previously it was only available for a few, such as Skype and Salesforce), announced a new version of the email-service LotusLive iNotes (with improved support for mobile devices and offline access), and announced a joint project with RIM (now IBM will be selling the Blackberry smartphones with installed Lotus applications: Sametime, Connections and Quickr).
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