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Re: IBM Verse

#11

Post by incision »

Pretty confusing.

My guess/hope...

This is aiming to be GMail + Google Now for the enterprise. Something that will parse your mail, schedule and contacts to generate suggestions or reminders and create an easily accessible "context" for each.

A workplace client that can generate 'cards', reminders and contextualize common bits of information (Think UPS tracking numbers in GMail - applied to support tickets, physical sites, projects, POs and budgets in an enterprise) with the creepy accuracy of Google Now would actually be interesting - yet another take on unified communications or a skin deep re-imagining of email would not.

Re: IBM Verse

#12

Post by PeterWhittaker »

There is a "call to action" but nothing to let me know why I might want to act (a brighter space? me to we? I don't know what those mean).

At least with Google's Inbox there is enough actual information for me to evaluate, consider, and eventually arrive at a considered "no, thank you".

With Verse, well, I don't know why I've even devoted the cycles it took to write this, let alone why I would evaluate Verse.

Maybe next time.

Re: IBM Verse

#13

Post by derwiki »

PeterWhittaker wrote: post #12

There is a "call to action" but nothing to let me know why I might want to act (a brighter space? me to we? I don't know what those mean). At least with Google's Inbox there is enough actual information for me to evaluate, consider, and eventually arrive at a considered "no, thank you". With Verse, well, I don't know why I've even devoted the cycles it took to write this, let alone why I would evaluate Verse. Maybe n…

Bold claim: if you're on HN, you're not IBM's target demographic

Re: IBM Verse

#14

Post by NDizzle »

cfontes wrote: post #7
bhaak wrote: post #6

Oh, yay, another reinvention of e-mail. I'm so excited ... not. Maybe if they finally would be able to implement 30 year technology correctly or being really innovative and dump all the crud that accumulated over the years instead then I could maybe hope a little. OTOH, it's from IBM. They know how to do e-mail. They have Lotus Notes.

The lotus notes thing was like kicking a dead dog. No need for it...

Laugh at Notes/Domino all you want. It was ahead of its time. If it had a pretty GUI it would have played out differently.

Re: IBM Verse

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Post by cpwright »

NDizzle wrote: post #14
cfontes wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lotus notes thing was like kicking a dead dog. No need for it...

Laugh at Notes/Domino all you want. It was ahead of its time. If it had a pretty GUI it would have played out differently.

One of the things I was only belatedly appreciative about Lotus notes was the experience on Linux. While I was at IBM, I used Lotus notes on Windows, then on Linux. The Linux version did occasionally crash; but overall the experience was similar to a Windows user.

The next company I worked at used Exchange, and developers could use Outlook webmail or an IMAP client like Thunderbird. I found this experience to be substandard; both from a perspective of consistency with managers who had Outlook and found calendaring to be pretty awful compared to Lotus notes.

This might be less important now that you can have your Calendar integrated into your smart phone, but I did not have a smart phone at the time.

Re: IBM Verse

#17

Post by jimbokun »

rscott wrote: post #3
smacktoward wrote: post #2

So what... what is it? I've just spent five minutes clicking around the web site and I still haven't got the foggiest idea.

Looks like a managed enterprisey version of Google Inbox/Mailbox app/Evomail. Probably does some natural language processing and keeps track of appointments, due dates, action items, etc.

So what... what is it?

Re: IBM Verse

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

derwiki wrote: post #13
PeterWhittaker wrote: post #12

There is a "call to action" but nothing to let me know why I might want to act (a brighter space? me to we? I don't know what those mean). At least with Google's Inbox there is enough actual information for me to evaluate, consider, and eventually arrive at a considered "no, thank you". With Verse, well, I don't know why I've even devoted the cycles it took to write this, let alone why I would evaluate Verse. Maybe n…

Bold claim: if you're on HN, you're not IBM's target demographic

Intriguing point.

Re: IBM Verse

#19

Post by jcfrei »

smacktoward wrote: post #2

So what... what is it? I've just spent five minutes clicking around the web site and I still haven't got the foggiest idea.

Broadly speaking probably an evolution of lotus notes. Or rather its email functionality.

Re: IBM Verse

#20

Post by bduerst »

jcfrei wrote: post #19
smacktoward wrote: post #2

So what... what is it? I've just spent five minutes clicking around the web site and I still haven't got the foggiest idea.

Broadly speaking probably an evolution of lotus notes. Or rather its email functionality.

Seems like a more social network approach to Lotus notes, but they're not really showing the product so who knows?
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