chmod 777 ventura
Cote broke the news and Elias has already commented on it. Lotus Ventura is IBMs step into Social Computing. It consists of blogging software based on Roller, an enterprise directory, a social bookmarking application, activities, communities, etc. Sprinkled throughout the entire suite is support for Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol (something I’ve been working the better part of a year to help bring to fruition). As Cote quotes, “whatever we can do, you can do.“.
The really cool part is that Ventura is 100% derived from stuff IBM has been using internally for quite some time. Blogging, social bookmarking, activities, bluepages, communities… these aren’t brand new shelfware things we’re not sure anyone will use.; thousands of IBMers are using these tools every day. Cool, eh?
(btw, this is a huge part of the “changing the message” stuff I mentioned earlier. Lotus just gets REST and the whole concept behind “chmod 777 web“.)
Update: The official name of Ventura is now “Lotus Connections“