Jun 22 2008 2:48AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
David on System i,
i for business,
i on Power,
IBM i,
AIX on Power,
Domino on System i,
i,
Linux in System i,
System i,
Apple,
SUN,
Linux,
FreeBSD,
Ubuntu,
Lotus,
Linux on POWER,
Lotus News,
OpenSolaris,
POWER Systems
I am working on a new site, so between work, this site, writting for Search400 (which I hope they change the name of soon) and family, I have also found little time to start building a new site that will in the end be a hub for all things POWER based. I have to bring the community together under one web site.
So with that said, I am going to need people to provide content for the site. I need really dedicated insane people to help build the community from all parts of this equation. IBM i, AIX, Linux on Power, and POWER hardware. We need to come together in a big way and share. I am also going to cover Lotus, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, OpenSuSE, FreeBSD and other things that interest me that I think are changing the way IT does IT.
Please send me an email and I will get you in on the fun, and if you know Joomla that would be great too…I am no expert on that CMS kit.
Jun 10 2008 5:44PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
IBM News,
Apple,
Exchange,
Lotus Domino,
Lotus,
Lotus Notes,
iPhone,
Lotus 8
Yesterday Apple released a new version of the iPhone and somewhere in the mix old Steve Jobs, who looks sick, left out talking about IBM and Lotus iNotes for the iPhone.
There is a good bit of chatter on Ed Brill’s blog about it and people are concerned. Nathan Freeman weights in on the SDK problem.
May 30 2008 3:04PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
Ubuntu,
Lotus Domino,
Lotus,
Lotus Notes,
Lotus Sametime,
Lotus Symphony,
Lotus 8,
Lotus News,
Redhat
I am excited about the new 8.5 client and other Lotus stuff that is out today. While 8.0.1 is nice, it still has some issues. The Linux and Mac Lotus Notes Clients are out as well so this should be one of those “steps in the right direction” things.
Link to the Lotus 8.5 Beta Download page
May 2 2008 8:24PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
Lotus Designer,
Lotus Notes,
Lotus Domino,
Domino on System i
Ed Brill is the mouth piece for Lotus and at the latest Admin2008 had a session that explains what to do if some lose cannon in your company wants to move away from Lotus instead of using it to it’s full potential.
Link to EdBrill.com
Let me give you my two cents about why Lotu is a better choice, they seem to understand collaborative technology way better than Microsoft ever will. Lotus out of the box will allow you to do mail, that is easy but they also allow you to build applications and collaborate.
Most companies fail Lotus and don’t do anything with it but mail. There is also one other problem IBM and Lotus have, they don’t have anyone printing books about how to use Lotus Notes, How to be a Lotus Admin and how to develop real Domino applications for Lotus Notes and the Web.
Apr 15 2008 4:25PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
Redhat,
Lotus Notes,
Linux,
Lotus Domino
Link to LotusonRedhat.com
“Lotus on Linux is a secure email, scheduling, calendaring, and messaging platform. It’s a simple, easy and affordable way for small and mid-sized business to enjoy enterprise performance and scalability with the rock-solid reliability, security and simplicity of linux. All at a substantially lower cost with no compromise.”
Mar 10 2008 5:30PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
IBM News,
Open source,
Lotus,
Lotus 8,
Lotus News,
Lotus Symphony,
Lotus Sametime
While I don’t see anyone covering this, I figured I would so that IBM gets some fair play on the old blogs.
IBM has launched a pretty funny little movie about UC² that is about Unified Communications. Using Sametime and other Lotus based products to collaborate. I can assure you Lotus does this much better than any Microsoft product.
Lotus Symphony is being shrugged off as another Lotus product meant to deliver nothing and complicate the Lotus offering. I have found since I have started using it to be neither of the two. Lotus Symphony gives you an office product in your Lotus Notes 8 client. It’s well done and can only get better over time. If your a Word or Excel power user I think it’s going to take time before it’s that fancy but then again Excel didn’t get there overnight either. I can remember when people were complaining about Excel not being as full featured as Lotus 1-2-3? Link to article
Jan 28 2008 7:49PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
AS/400,
Lotus Domino,
Lotus,
Lotus Notes,
Lotusphere
I am just following up from my post/question about where all the Lotus 8 books are. Packt Press made a book about upgrading to 7 and they seem to have a new book covering how to upgrade to 8 as well. Enjoy!
Link to POST
Jan 26 2008 7:16PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
AS/400,
Ubuntu,
Client access,
Linux,
Lotus,
Lotus Notes
Us Ubuntu fans have all been waiting for the day when IBM says UBUNTU is ready for prime time. I have been asking 2 things from IBM over the past 3 or 4 years. Make a supported Client Access for Linux (RPM & .DEB) and Make a Lotus Notes Client for Linux (RPM & .DEB). I am not aksing for much am I?
While I know the Client Access for Linux will really never show up, they do have some things out there that will run on any platform via a browser, but nothing like what is available for Windows right now. I will keep holding my breath and see what happens.
A few years back IBM approved DB2 to run and be supported on Ubuntu Server. It was a big move and I don’t think any large IT shops payed attention. Why run DB2 on Windows when you can run it on Ubuntu for less and faster.
I would like to thank IBM for making Lotus Notes for Ubuntu. (Link to Chris Linfoot) I could just scream like a little girl when I heard Lotus 8.5 will be supported on Ubuntu. Now all we need is the Admin Client to run on Ubuntu and we all know the Domino Designer will eventually run inside of Eclipse and that will cover that.
Overall we are getting there. Linux is going to be a big part of IT this year and in the up coming years. I look forward to more Ubuntu/linux adoption.
Link to CNET
Another Link
Jan 24 2008 12:28AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
AS/400,
Lotus Domino,
Lotus,
Lotus Notes
I love to read and really love to read a good tech manual. I want to ask the book companies who contenue to print out 30 books on Linux and hundreds of books on Microsoft products, where are the books on Lotus? Why are the book companies ignoring a huge market like the Lotus product. From the Lotus 8 release alone I could think of 8 or 9 books that could be written and would love to see only no one seems interested in writting them? Can’t IBM place a few calls and get some great book written? The bulk of the Lotus books are for R5 and Version 6. Not much out there for Version 7 and very little on 8. Lotus 8 changes the face of everything and no one in the printing world is working on it. I approched 5 or so book companies about getting out a Lotus 8 book for Users and Adminsitrators, but no one and I mean no one would even consider the idea.
Anyone else out there seeing the same things? Since I missed Lotusphere this year are you guys there seeing any books? The System i books are pretty good right now, but if you want to learn Lotus you had better be ready to join the school of hard knocks.
