Well it seems that it wouldn't be a lotusphere conference without at least one phat number. Greg Engels live blog has a nice phat photo of the "phat number". 

I have no further information about qualifying it. If anyone has more info please post. There is a conspicuous dot on Australia in the map in this photo. Who the heck was that ?

Well if that number is 18,378 new customers since launch of Notes 8 and I recall last year was 12,236.. does that mean only 6,142-ish new customers ? sigh.... so the mystery continues.