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September 14, 2009

Big Blue, aka IBM, is becoming the Big Yellow. 330,000 PC will move to Symphony. The biggest migration of an Office suite

American IT giant IBM plans to have its staff abandon Microsoft office software. According to a report in German daily Handelsblatt, the some 360,000 employees of the firm are to switch from the MS Office Suite to IBM's own Lotus Symphony. The paper's report (German link), is based on leaked internal IBM correspondence from upper management. IBM's internal move away from Micrsoft Office began in June 2008 with early pilots. By the end of the year, IBM documents are to be created in the ODF format, which is license-free for everyone.
Microsoft Office will then only be installed at IBM with prior approval. The instructions from the end of August stipulate that Symphony has to be installed on all company computers within ten workdays. 330,000 employees have reportedly already switched. The goal is apparently not to save money. Rather, IBM wants to make sure that all information will remain available on all IT platforms and on the internet.
IBM apparently plans to use only open formats, but not necessarily open source; Lotus Symphony is based on the old version 1.x of OpenOffice and supports Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations. Although the OpenOffice code was open source, the license at the time allowed companies not to release their changes; IBM made use of this and Symphony source code changes have not been open sourced, although Lotus Symphony is free of charge, requiring only user registration. IBM developers have changed the office suite in some crucial areas too. For instance, IBM's office suite has its own interface, and three programs have been left out: Drawing, Formula, and Database. The most recent version was Lotus Symphony 1.3 which was released in June.

via lotussymphonyblog.com

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August 31, 2009

Lotus Notes with or without Lotus Connection became Web 2.0: a LinkedIn integration

LinkedIn Widget for Lotus Notes

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August 11, 2009

An IBM Cloud with a special focus for testers, Automation & Scaling capabilities, delivered for you ! An interesting stuff for GTAC 2009

If you need a solutions for Testing Automation platform, and you don't
want to spend hundreds of hours and dozens of system architects and
developers, this is the TA solution for you.
An enterprise platform for testing, ready to use, like an iPhone apps
and his cloud.
Developing, scaling, planned or automated tests.

Statistics and performances charts included.
Everything you need for a complete and professional testing environments.
You'll save years and you'll be ready for testing automation in a few seconds !

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February 11, 2009

knowing the early days of the IBM BBP it's amazing the see the biggest challenge about channel and partners relationships, how could a partner earny money now ?

IBM and Amazon Web Services

Why are IBM and Amazon Web Services working together?
IBM and Amazon Web Services are responding to customer demand to make IBM software available on AWS. This relationship provides customers and developers with unprecedented options for building and delivering solutions on IBM software.

How does this partnership fit into IBM's broader cloud strategy?
IBM has a four-pronged strategy to capture the cloud computing opportunity by: 1) delivering its own cloud services portfolio; 2) helping ISVs and developers design, build, deliver and market cloud services; 3) helping clients integrate cloud services into their business; and 4) providing cloud computing environments to businesses. The Amazon AWS EC2 partnership primarily supports the second prong but can potentially support other aspects of IBM’s strategy.

What is the target market for these offering?
These offerings are primarily designed to help small and medium sized business, startups, academics, business partners and developers take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing.

What are the future plans for this relationship?
Based on adoption of initial AMIs, IBM and Amazon Web Services plan to roll out additional Development and Production AMIs and support options for developers and customers.

via ibm.com

More details and info at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/cloud?S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW&ca=dth-cloud

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January 19, 2009

Beta stage of "IBM Bluehouse" finished. LotusLive announced by IBM

I had the opportunity to be involved in the Beta stage of a new Portal for IBM Partner (or others) that support, free Live Meetings, IM, Directory, Podcasts and so on. The beta name was BlueHouse and the Official name is LotusLive. IBM Announced today the new service. Some blogs and News are starting to talk about that...

To stay in touch with labs and people all around the world I had the opportunity to use most part of Free&Commercial meeting tools.

From One-To-One to Many-To-Many solutions. I think that I could stop to use all other services and I'll start to use it and I'll invite all people that I can.

I think that they will smash other solutions: Light like Google UI and fast like best AJAX website.

I used and tested all feature that are useful for meetings and attendees:

- live meeting and IM

- sharing files, docs and charts

- created forms for tutors and attendees.

I suggest to you to try it for a while,

Have fun