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So I came out of the opening session with that usual feeling of exuberance. Was it the exciting rock and roll band mixing with the symphony orchestra? Was it the way Bob Costas professionally linked the need for sportscasters to our jobs of being able to give our Lotus end users timely information in the right context at the right time for them to do jobs. Or could it have been that a majority of the visual displays and logos had the familiar Lotus yellow and black and only one had the irritating Websphere purple and black unlike 5 years ago.

It could have been the way Mike Rhodin paraded out his crack staff of product managers to show all of the new features of the plethora of collaboration offerings Lotus now has. Or the way he introduced the new Mashups designed to give end users the ability to create their own workspace for their needs or the Foundations and Bluehouse offerings designed to bring the small business into the IBM fold.

Whatever it was, for me it was exuberance. Did I drink the Kool-Aid?

With my exuberance neatly tucked into my Yellow Lotusphere 2008 back pack I headed for the vendor showcase looking forward to a day of discussing with my clients the vision, drinking more Kool-Aid and sharing with them some of my exuberance. Unfortunate, My exuberance did not last due to the fact that I realized my clients are more worried about Lotus nuts and bolts issues like server monitoring and ACLs compliance and reducing footprints and stepping on each others development toes and cannot even fathom the dream of a collaboration environment on the scale of what was displayed and received with such exuberance.