Martin Pradny's blog

I should be probably doing some work now, but the last three weeks were quite busy and a short blog post may help me to process all the information I gathered (or I'm just too tired to get any real work done as it looked like that half of Poland is going home for an extended weekend due to public holiday in Germany and I got home at 2AM instead of 11PM). Engage Last weeks were exciting. It all started with Engage, the best IBM/HCL collaboration community event in Europe, or maybe in the world, but as I haven't been to any event outside Europe recently, some else has to decide. Theo and Hilde organized a wonderful event, as always. I think we are all getting spoiled and it's really tough for them to keep every event such well organized and find those incredible locations, where I'd not think it's possible to host a conference. And it just works. This time it was in  Autoworld Brussels , which mad part of my family really jealous as they spend most of their free...

In recent months I did more and more integrations with different Microsoft platforms, being it good old AD, but also its Azure sibling and Exchange or Office 365. I had to learn a lot long the way and  last week I had opportunity to attend The European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference to get better overview of the ecosystem and future directions. Having almost 2 decades of experience with IBM collaboration tools, quite often fighting against solutions from Microsoft, this step was both sad and exciting. Sad in terms that when I started with IBM Domino, it probably had bigger market share in messaging than Microsoft and whole ecosystem was better at that time. Since then, many things changed and now Microsoft is not even mentioning IBM as competition at all. I'm not saying that there is no future for IBM collaboration tools, but market has moved on since last big updates were done to those platforms and I've never seen any big vendor to be good at caching up w...