Lotusphere had many teasers about the improved webconferencing in Sametime, but did not provide much information beside that.
What are your expectations for 8.5?
Mine are:
- Looking forward to the updated web 2.0 web client. Had the chance to review it in the usability lab at lotusphere and really liked it.
- Since 8.5 seems to be moving to Websphere, I'd really like to see the Standard and Advanced codestreams to be merged into 1 product. There are some tools in the advanced that I really like, but I'm not willing to spend the 30% licensing delta.
- I would like to see a sticky announcement. Currently, when you send an announcement out...they will disappear after a few seconds. I would like to force end users to acknowledge the announcements (ie avoid a user missing an announcement when they go to the bathroom)
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8.5 is a move more towards missing expanded meeting services that Sametime has needed. While I wish it was native to Domino or at least optional, it is what the chose. They have a long way to go moving the other Sametime capabilities to pure Websphere to get a single install. remember Workplace instant messaging? lacked tons of capabilities and I hope they don't start there.