Interesting interview with Mike Rhodin, IBM’s General Manager for Workplace, Portal and Collaboration software in CRN.

IBM’s Collaboration Chief Talks Domino, Workplace Game Plan

Mike Rhodin, IBM Software’s general manager for Workplace, Portal and Collaboration software, sat down this week with CRN Industry Editor Barbara Darrow to talk about Project Hannover, the next release of Lotus Notes/Domino, Workplace confusion, and Lotusphere game plans. The annual Lotusphere confab, in Orlando in late January, will serve as the public launch pad for Workplace 2.6, and the first public demonstrations of Project Hannover.

The interview also answers a question posed in a comment on an earlier post of mine about when we should see the first betas of Hannover (the next release of Lotus Notes):

At the time we said the first public unveiling of running [Hannover] code would be at Lotusphere. We showed slideware. Our intention is to take the covers off of it. Our intent was to kind of get into beta in mid year and that’s still the plan. We have been playing with running code for about four months now and had an analyst event a couple weeks ago, and we showed a sneak peak of what we’re going to show at Lotusphere.

One of the most interesting comments near the end of the interview was about things to look out for at Lotusphere 2006:

This will be one of the more announcement-rich Lotuspheres in history. Maybe the most. We have a lot keyed up.

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