ComputerWorld (2010-11-30) – Messaging and groupware is at the heart of business and applications most people use everyday. While the big names like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Google Apps are increasing their influence, enterprises have several viable open source options. Of course, there plenty of complaints about the quirks and complications of the bi- name groupware suites so perhaps it’s time to give the lesser-known options a try. In this installment of 5 open source things to watch, we take a look at open source groupware suites which can communicate without costing the farm. read more …
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Facebook Messages Won’t Replace Traditional E-Mail, Poll Says
EWeek.com (2010-11-28) — Facebook Messages isn’t likely to replace users’ e-mail accounts, according to a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Still, analysts believe it will have an impact. More than 62 percent of over 3,680 participants in a recent online poll said they wouldn’t use Facebook Messages as their primary e-mail service.
Some 17 percent of respondents in the poll,conducted by the Wall Street Journal, said they would use Messages as their main e-mail, while 20 percent said they weren’t sure.
Facebook Messages launched Nov. 15 to funnel e-mail, instant messaging and SMS text messages to one @facebook.com e-mail alias so that users can manage their communications through a single inbox. read more...
Could Facebook fragment web?
According to [Guardian.com.uk], Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web.
Some of the web’s “most successful inhabitants”, such as Facebook and large telecoms companies, have begun to “chip away” at its founding principles, Berners-Lee wrote in a Scientific American journal essaypublished today.
Social networking sites that do not allow users to extract the information they put into them is a “problem” that could mean the web is “broken into fragmented islands”, he said.
Google accused Facebook earlier this month of leaving its 600 million users in a “data dead end” with their contact details and personal information “effectively trapped”.
Although Facebook recently began allowing users to download profile information including status updates and photos, the world’s most popular social network has been roundly criticised for leaving users’ network of contacts “walled” inside its own site.
Berners-Lee warned that such a “closed silo of content” risked leaving the web “fragmented”. read more ...
What needs to be done to move Outlook users to Lotus Notes
I am not surprised to see multiple news articles all over internet on the topic of many companies and enterprises moving from IBM Lotus Notes mail to either MS Exchange /MS Cloud computing or moving to Gmail cloud.
We all know that Microsoft is alway doing a great job in marketing its product and what I don’t know why IBM can’t learn from that.
I’m not really tired of listening to MS commercials on some of the Broadcast TV channels. I have got to admit it’s a bit annoying to hear over and over again the same stuff about how good the MS Cloud is. But what is more annoying is not seeing a single commercial about either Lotus Notes or Lotuslive.com cloud. Is it ever going to change?
What brought me to that point is a very conservative press release published a few days ago in regards to European company that provides the Outlook to Notes conversion software. Read more about it …
Well-known molecule may be behind alcohol’s benefits to heart health
ScienceDaily (2010-11-18) — Many studies support the assertion that moderate drinking is beneficial when it comes to cardiovascular health, and for the first time scientists have discovered that a well-known molecule, called notch, may be behind alcohol’s protective effects. Down the road, this finding could help scientists create a new treatment for heart disease that mimics the beneficial influence of modest alcohol consumption.
Will Facebook take over the corporate email?
Good question: Will Facebook eventually take over the corporate email. I think there is a very good possibility of it. Google is becoming another large corporate machine with all related to this rank attributes. The main email stakeholders, IBM and Microsoft are already large corporate companies and will not be able to catchup Facebook, a new and very fast runner. That might not be even a marathon race, It might be just a quick mid range distance run.
There is a good possibility in a couple of years Facebook will have a noticeable presence in the corporate email world. I just read an article in [http://blogs.forbes.com] which actually initiated a chain of thought I expressed above. read more…
A new survey shows workers still fear the SharePoint
According to [http://advice.cio.com] a new survey shows workers still fear the SharePoint. IT must narrow SharePoint deployments and educate users, says one analyst. read more …
LotusLive iNotes
Came across of a very nice LotusLive iNotes commercial
Social networking capabilities to Lotus Notes platform
From [http://technorati.com] IBM is catching up on the social networking buzz. It’s about time. Big Blue has announced adding more social networking capabilities to the Lotus Notes Connect 3.0 . read more ...
Free BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Your Lotus Notes Email
Just off the [Rim] Press Release wire : RIM Announces Free BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Software for IBM Lotus Domino
The free software products like that are not released very often so download it and used while it’s available. I hope it’s not the pre-Christmas promotion conducted by RIM and IBM to compete with Microsoft and RIM and IBM will support it for a very long time.
On my opinion, the more free good quality products can be used with IBM Lotus Domino software, the merrier. And I hope eventually IBM will release free Express version of Lotus Notes mail client.
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