Gregg Eldred

It appears that IBM Lotus may be striking at Microsoft and its end-of-life for Essential Business Server with a recent press release announcing 200 partners who "plan to sell LotusLive."

IBM today announced more than 200 partners are planning to sell to their customers LotusLive cloud services. The news comes in just two months since the introduction of the LotusLive partner program as evidence of increasing migration to the cloud for collaboration capabilities.

. . . As part of today's news, IBM is also extending the capabilities of Lotus Foundations by integrating DB2 Express database software into the core appliance offering free of charge to better serve SMB customers. There is no database size limit, no limit on the number of instances or databases per server and no restriction on the number of users..

The news reinforces IBM's commitment to SMB customers who require IT solutions that are easy to use and acquire. These developments are appealing to Microsoft customers and partners in the wake of Microsoft's discontinuation of its flagship offering for SMB, Windows Essential Business Server. Microsoft announced its withdrawal on March 7, leaving partners and customers looking for alternatives.

The entire news release follows, click "Read More" to access it. Happy reading. :-)


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Thanks, Matt.


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For the most part, a lot of advertising just flows over me without eliciting a response. However, when I see an ad for the Marine Corps, there is a response, usually a very emotional one. Sitting in a semi-darkened movie theatre this weekend with family, Number One Son sitting next to me, this ad appeared on the screen:



Green Zone isn't supposed to be a tear jerker, but it started out that way. *sigh*


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After reading Guy Wakely's post concerning the selection of a new smartphone, I found this flowchart that may provide some assistance. Funny, but Palm is not represented.



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Lego artist/sculpter/genius Nathan Sawaya has created the ultimate in geek toys, a giant Lego RIM Blackberry Tour 9360 complete with working LCD screen.

The 'artwork' stands at about 1.5 metres high and follows one of his previous projects, a similarly giant Lego iPhone. Clearly Sawaya has no particular loyalty to either.

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The photo accompanying the article:



Another look at the LEGO Blackberry from Engadget (which includes a video).


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IMHO, an excellent idea.




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IBM Lotus has published a whitepaper on administering Domino 8.5. From the abstract:

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus® Domino®, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of server maintenance and NSDs.

After reading it, I think that it's a really good document for those new to Domino Administration or, dare I say it, Domino Developers that would like to know a little about the administration aspect of a Domino server.

Link: Administering IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 servers for beginners

Link: Domino Admin for Beginners PDF


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In the first installment of the series, PCQuest looked at licensing and provided a high level view of features in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 and Microsoft Exchange and Outrlook 2010. In this, the second article in the series, they focus on the new features in each messaging platform.

Domino has incorporate several new technologies to save storage space like techniques to manage attachments, use of compression techniques, etc. There are techniques to reduce I/O, routing optimization methods to reduce latency and ensure faster mail delivery, etc. Several enhancements have also been done in group policy management to ease administration, and there are features to recover lost user ids and passwords.

. . . Just as Domino introduced features to save disk space, Exchange 2010 has added archiving, retention, and discovery features. In these, every user gets a personal archive folder, which is directly associated with the user's mailbox. Users can directly drag and drop email from their primary mailbox to this folder. This keeps their primary mailbox light, thereby helping improve performance. The process of moving emails to archives folder can also be automated through policies, to make it easier for users to manage their mailboxes.

I don't know how interesting it is, however the only people to comment on the series, to date, are Lotus Notes and Domino users. For the second installment, you will see a comment on Lotus Traveler.and connectivity with iPhones. Hopefully, a future post in the series will detail the mobile options for both platforms.

Link: PCQuest: IBM Lotus Domino vs Microsoft Exchange-Part II


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