Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Feb 2007 16:24 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
IBM has announced an open-source desktop, running Lotus apps and Firefox on top of Red Hat or SUSE Linux. It's based on an internal project which has deployed Linux desktops to several thousand IBM staff, in what IBM said was one of the largest corporate Linux roll-outs to date. It added that its Open Client Solution can also take in Windows and Mac users, as there's Lotus software for those as well - although it admits that the Mac version of Notes 8 isn't due until later this year.
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RE[4]: How is Lotus these days?
by kaiwai on Wed 14th Feb 2007 06:19
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Hmm, try using Notes for NNTP client, the editor is broken, the syncronisation is broken; the whole thing is broken.
Get a copy of Outlook, and compare how easy it is to setup and use compared to Notes - and they wonder why Microsoft are winning customers left right and centre.
For all C4EB is worth, it still isn't Microsoft Office, its based off OpenOffice.org but is is completely a waste of time when it comes to features required and people are used to when running Office such as the collaboration server via Sharepoint and the like.
RE[5]: How is Lotus these days?
by kev009 on Wed 14th Feb 2007 20:39
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Personally I like the Notes Client, but I have been using it since 4.6.
I also like the direction IBM is going with Hannover but the R7 release for Linux left a lot to be desired. Speed was atrocious and memory consumption extremely high. (I develop in Eclipse and have written plugins for it as well. I realize the challenges, but gah. I went back to using Notes in VMWare.)
I almost applied for the Domino 8 beta, but I would not have had time to do the amount of feedback IBM wanted so I decided to defer till release.
Guess I will have to wipe my primary again and install OpenSuse or SLED. RHEL is too expensive for it to be worth it. I prefer Debian based distros currently but so be it.
For those left wondering what C4EB is: Client for E-Business. I was not aware the C4EB had officially targeted Linux though. I thought that was the IBM Workplace push, though I understand that IBM is axing/deemphasizing the workplace brand. Interesting days indeed.