Tag: IBM

  • Pressure from the cloud

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    Simon Scullion

    No, we’re not talking meteorology here! I have been keeping an interested eye on some of the developments from Amazon with their Amazon Web Services, so when I saw the following tweet from friend/colleague/troublemaker @MasterMark, it made me sit up! Oh, dude! It’s a war, and cloud is a battlefield. #orcl swallows #sun, and days…

  • IBM External Sametime working in the Notes 8 embedded client

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    Simon Scullion

    I noticed this yesterday, the embedded Sametime client in Notes 8 is now able to connect to extst.ibm.com. If this is actually new to anyone, IBM has an externally facing Sametime server, to which anyone with an IBM registration can login, and chat with IBMers internally. The server to connect to is extst.ibm.com using your…

  • IBM Lotusphere Comes to You 2008

    IBM Lotusphere Comes to You 2008

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    Simon Scullion

    Warning, this is a bit of a gripe post! Why is it that the dates for Lotus events in Spain always seem to be the last to appear!? Spain isn’t even on the list for the Lotusphere Comes to You events, which I hope that is just temporary! It could go quite some way to…

  • DominoKeys.com » Dear Lotus; c/o: Mike Rhodin, GM of IBM/Lotus

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    Simon Scullion

    Kevin Hansen in an open letter to Mike Rhodin: You have the world’s attention at the moment. For the sake of all of us who live and breath Lotus Notes/Domino, please make full use of this brief and rare opportunity. Out of a strong belief that Notes 8 is the most important release of Notes…

  • IBM warming to Ubuntu?

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    Simon Scullion

    Tell me its true! Glen on his blog lets on: So it was a big (and welcome) surprise to find not one but two groups within the company putting together distributions of the IBM desktop products for Ubuntu. This was also picked up by Julian over at nsftools: Ooo, that sounds tasty. A package of…

  • IBM support for Ubuntu

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    Simon Scullion

    James Governor of RedMonk raised a question that has come up a few times in the Lotus blogsphere, on the subject of Ubuntu as an IBM supported OS. I mentioned the fact that DB2 is supported on Ubuntu, a fact which doesn’t really fit with some of the justification for not supporting Lotus Notes and…