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Automotive Manufacturer Continental Chooses IBM Lotus Software for Unified Messaging and Collaboration

2009-05-03T03:21:00.000-07:00

Source : http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Automotive-Manufacturer-iw-14827262.html

Over a four-month period, 40,000 Microsoft Outlook and Exchange software users were moved to the IBM platform. Continental also decided to deploy IBM Lotus Quickr and Sametime software as their collaboration and unified communications platform. The reasons for choosing IBM over Microsoft included lower licensing and operating costs as well as greater platform independence.

Continental's acquisition of Siemens VDO brought with it a big question. In addition to its 37,000 IBM Lotus Domino and Notes software users, the company now had 40,000 new Microsoft Exchange and Outlook users from the company it acquired. The evaluation considered several migration scenarios: immediately switching the entire group to the Lotus platform; gradually switching to the Exchange platform; or migrating to third party open source products or hosted services.

Lotusphere Comes to You 2009 : India

2009-02-13T03:11:00.000-08:00

http://www-07.ibm.com/in/events/lotusphere09/register.html

Mumbai:
Kulsum
Phone: +91 9773393990

Delhi:
Simran Seth
Phone: +91 11 41497921

Bangalore:
Pavithra
Phone: +91 80 32961188

December 2008 : Home Loan interest rates for amount >20l

2008-12-21T03:19:00.000-08:00

After talking to various private & public sector banks on home loan, below is the comparative study of home loan details for amount > 20l

Lotusphere - 2009

2008-09-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2009/

If you are a developer, administrator, IT or business professional who considers collaboration a strategic asset, and you want access to the latest information and expertise about Lotus and WebSphere Portal Software, then you need to be at Lotusphere 2009. Presentations on the latest innovations and how-to training to interactive networking discussions, it's all about getting the latest word on strategy and products that you can't get anywhere else!

Lotus Technical Conference at Mumbai , sept 8-10

2008-09-07T00:27:00.000-07:00

Lotus Technical Conference will help system administrators, developers and IT leaders learn how they can implement these tools and technologies in their respective organizations, based on proven methodologies, frameworks and real experiences from subject-matter experts.

http://www.lotusconference.com

G.O.N.A.D - (Geeky Order of Notes Admins and Developers)

2008-08-05T02:17:00.000-07:00

Click here to know more.

Try "Wordle" - from IBM Research

2008-07-27T22:39:00.000-07:00

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Below are my wordles - which i created using :
http://www.wordle.net/create

Using LotusScript, how to get Lotus notes mail file's owner name

2008-04-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

Below script helps you to get mail file owner name in IBM Lotus Notes client.

Sub Click(Source As Button)
Dim session As New notesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim doc As notesdocument
Dim owner As NotesItem
Dim ownerName As String

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set doc= db.GetProfileDocument("CalendarProfile")
Set owner= doc.getFirstItem("Owner")
Dim userName As New NotesName(owner.Text)
ownerName = userName.Abbreviated
Msgbox "Mail file owner is " & ownerName
End Sub

How to get Lotus notes client details , policy details of the notes user , ip address , OS .. others by using lotus script

2008-04-12T05:17:00.000-07:00

This lotus script generates the below data and then sends a mail. Care has been taken so that lotus script executes only once and only one mail is send from a client.

Data which is collected :

UserName
IP address
Platform
Notes Build version
Notes Client version
Policy details

Note : I have written below code by referring to Lotus notes domino designer help files & few public articles posted at internet and help from one of my friend.

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim jSession As JavaSession
Dim jClass As JavaClass
Dim jObject As JavaObject
Dim jMethod As JavaMethod

Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim doc As New NotesDocument(session.CurrentDatabase) 'Document which is being sent as mail
Dim ws As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim all As String
Dim platform As String
Dim buildversion As String
Dim notesVersion As String
Dim userName As String
Dim getIPAddress As String
Dim check As String

check=session.GetEnvironmentString("IBMClientFlag")
If check="" Then
Call session.SetEnvironmentVar("IBMClientFlag","false")
End If

check=session.GetEnvironmentString("IBMClientFlag")

If check="false" Then

Set jSession = New JavaSession()
Set jClass = jSession.GetClass("java/net/InetAddress")
Set jMethod = jClass.GetMethod("getLocalHost","()Ljava/net/InetAddress;")
Set jObject = jMethod.Invoke()

getIPAddress = jObject.getHostAddress()
platform= session.Platform
buildversion=session.NotesBuildVersion
notesVersion=session.NotesVersion
Dim nam As NotesName
Set nam = session.CreateName(session.UserName)
userName = msg & nam.Abbreviated & Chr(13)

all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)

all=all &"UserName is : "
all=all & userName
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)

all=all &"IP address is : "
all=all &getIPAddress
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)

all=all &"Platform : "
all=all &platform
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)

all=all &"Notes Build version is : "
all=all & buildversion
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)

all=all &"Notes Client version is : "
all=all & notesVersion
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)
all = all & "Policy Details "
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)

%REM

To get ALL Policy Information

%END REM

Dim db As New notesdatabase("","names.nsf")
Dim view As notesview
Dim doc1 As notesdocument
Dim doc2 As notesdocument
Set view=db.GetView("$Policies")
Set doc1=view.GetFirstDocument
Dim policyName As String
Dim policyType As String
Dim status As String
Dim AllPolicy As String

While Not doc1 Is Nothing
policyName = doc1.FullName(0)
policyType = doc1.Type(0)
all = all & policyName
all = all & Chr(9)
all=all &"Policy Type is : "
all = all & policyType
all = all & Chr(13)
all = all & Chr(9)
Allpolicy = AllPolicy & policyType
Set doc1=view.GetNextDocument(doc1)
Wend

Call doc.AppendItemValue("Form","Memo")
Call doc.AppendItemValue("UserName",userName )
Call doc.AppendItemValue("IPAddress", getIPAddress)
Call doc.AppendItemValue("NotesVersion", notesVersion )
Call doc.AppendItemValue("Buildversion", buildversion )
Call doc.AppendItemValue("Platform", platform )
Call doc.AppendItemValue("Allpolicy", Allpolicy )

Call doc.AppendItemValue("Body", all)
Call doc.appendItemValue("Subject","Lotus Notes Client & Policy Details for user " & userName )
Call doc.Send(False,"piyush42@gmail.com")
Call session.SetEnvironmentVar("IBMClientFlag","true")

End If

End Sub

One day I decided to quit...

2007-12-28T04:39:00.000-08:00

One day I decided to quit...

One day I decided to quit...
I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
"God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?"
His answer surprised me...
"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"
"Yes", I replied.
When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them.
I gave them light. I gave them water.
The fern quickly grew from the earth.
Its brilliant green covered the floor.
Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed.
But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.
And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed.
But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.
"In the third year, there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In the fourth year, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. "I would not quit." He said. "Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth.

Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant... But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.

It had spent the five years growing roots.

Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."

He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots."

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you. " Don't compare yourself to others .." He said. " The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern ... Yet, they both make the forest beautiful."

Your time will come, " God said to me. " You will rise high! " How high should I rise?" I asked.

How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return.

"As high as it can? " I questioned.

" Yes. " He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can. "

I left the forest and bring back this story.

I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.

He will never give up on you.

Never regret a day in your life.

Good days give you happiness

Bad days give you experiences;

Both are essential to life.

A happy and meaningful life requires our continuous input and creativity. It does not happen by chance. It happens because of our choices and actions. And each day we are given new opportunities to choose and act and, in doing so, we create our own unique journey." Keep going...

Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,

Sorrows keep you Human,
Failures keep you humble,

Success keeps You Glowing,

but Only God keeps You Going!

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

2007-07-19T23:06:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Speech by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios
Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.
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Good to start than never :)

2007-07-16T03:48:00.000-07:00

There seems to be huge popularity of blogs from few past years so i was thinking to create one.
Finally today i executed my idea.

Lets see how it goes from here.