Today few of us could manage for long at work without e-mails, socially they are useful but in business they are, for even the smallest businesses, essential. E-Mails revolutionized the way we work: it changed how we share information including the volume, how often and how quickly and it sped up the entire world economy …
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What triggered my few nostalgic thoughts about Lotus Notes this evening was a blog post published in Nevermind.dk “Lotus Notes and Domino have been able to survive for 20 years, how?”. Once well known as Lotus Notes, a widely popular collaboration and email platform has been experiencing tough times during the past few years. It seems …
Here is an error one of my demo clients has been having since a week ago: “ERROR 1008: Your LotusLive servers are down for maintenance. We should have them running shortly.” This Error is the most recent one. The user has not had an access to LotusLive Notes since about a month ago. Prior to this one, …
I hope that today’s Microsoft Online Services outage has nothing to do with the Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5B. Nevertheless, the outage started at approximatively 12:00 PM EST and has not been resolved yet (it’s 5:20 PM). The Microsoft Online Services tech support could not provide ETA at this time. The outage is affecting Exchange Online and …
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During the past few weeks I have been reviewing two systems from the major Cloud offering players: IBM LotusLive and Microsoft Cloud (Offic365). Below is a table which I compiled based on my application review and interactions with the support personal. My intent is simply to compare two competing product lines based on my personal …
IBM has announced today availability of the IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive. This is a really great news for Notes and LotusLive community. No more headache with administering your Lotus Domino server, not more headache (I assume) with backups, security and hardware issues. The IBM Cloud will take care of it all. The only question …
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IBM LotusLive gets new Translation Applications from LinguaSys. LinguaSys, Inc., an international language translation and text analytics software company announced last week a new suite of language translation applications, TGSocial, TGNotes and TGChat, for IBM Lotus and LotusLive social collaboration applications, both on-premises and in the Cloud. The new LinguaSys translation applications allow businesses around the world to communicate …
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I wish I knew what is going at the IBM head quarters in regards to this topic. I got a bit disappointed when I saw a news post “Steinhoff drops Lotus Notes …” confirming that 1,050 Lotus Notes seats will be replaced by Microsoft’s BOPS and not by LotusLive Cloud solution. When I see news …
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Cisco has pulled the plug on its cloud e-mail service which debuted 13 months ago. The announcement has been made by Debra Chrapaty, senior VP and GM of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group. In her blog post on Tuesday she wrote “In the thirteen months since, we’ve been market testing Cisco Mail via a controlled release. …
Great video explaining what LotusLive complete collaboration suite is about by LotusLiveServices. It does everything you need to make you productive and forget about support and maintenance of your in house IT environment. And it only cost $10 per user per month. Watch the video.
