Especially the demos by Chris Crummey showed a lot about the great mobile offerings being available especially for Connections … and yes, one more time to realize that Connections is a central part of the IBM social business strategy. Like it or not - it’s a fact!

Being a huge fan of Zite I absolutely loved the magazine style dashboard Chris showed in the last part of this session!

After watching Ed Brills presentation at LS12 the roadmap became much clearer to me.

Like the name “Social Edition” or not but in my opinion it’s only the tool closing the gap from Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and Connection to an integrated 9.x “whatever-it-will-be-named” solution. But don’t be fooled - the social edition release is already half way to 9.0. So it’s not just a name change … there’s a lot of stuff under the hood and Notes/Domino 8.54 with Social Edition add-on will be much more than just a simple point release.

Honestly, that’s the “one more thing” I expected on OGS. And of course they mentioned it but unfortunately I wasn’t made as clear as it should be. So thanks to Ed Brill and his session to offer this “one more thing” moment to me today! :-)

I highly reccommend to watch that session as it really shows were IBM is heading: