It is a long time since Lotus Software, owned by IBM since 1995, dominated a market, their Lotus 123 product though was a great spreadsheet package that led to a step change in spreadsheet software and Lotus Notes later did the same. Lotus missed out though when Microsoft Office came along and dominated a market …
Can IBM XWork Server Change the World?
The IBM XWork server is an IBM Lotus Domino 8.5x server with an entirely different license approach, different packaging, and different branding (installer). If it’s basically the renamed IBM Domino server then why should small and medium size businesses look into the XWork server solution? First and foremost ,the IBM XWork server is IBM software …
IBM Smart Business Virtual Desktop
These days the modern know-how is focused on the Virtual Desktop technology undoubtedly towards the financial aspects of management and support of the business desktop infrastructure. Dealing with desktop computers can be progressively but avoidably difficult. This particular difficulty intends to overwhelm business owners once they really should be working on advancement as well as their primary firm business. Using the IBM Smarter Business, …
What Warren Buffett sees in IBM that others don’t
Great news for IBM as Warren Buffett’s company spends $10.7 billion to buy more than 5% of IBM’s stocks. That comes as a big surprise by the billionaire who till now has been reluctant to invest in high profile technology companies in the past. In his interview to CNBC Mr Buffett said “If you’re in some country around the world and …
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Is Lotus Notes Still Here to Stay?
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 …
Lotus Notes Platform to Stay at Flexcon
One Positive News came out this week about IBM Lotus Notes Technology. Based on Computer World, Flexcon (www.flexcon.com/) will keep Lotus Notes technology in house as an email platform after upgrading its Lotus Notes and Domino environment to the current software version. “We had not done any upgrades in quite a while, and we patched [only] …
Lotus Live Error 1008
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, …
LotusLive vs Microsoft Cloud
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 Lotus Domino Utility Server for LotusLive Has Arrived
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
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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