Top 6 Highlights From Lotusphere
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| It’s time for The VAR Guy to eat a little more crow. Last week, he suggested
| nobody really cared about Lotusphere anymore. Boy was he wrong. Turns out IBM
| and the Lotus team unveiled some major partnerships at the event. Here are
| the top six highlights from Lotusphere, and the potential benefits for VARs.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/01/22/top-6-highlights-from-lotusphere/
IBM`s New Linux-Based Notes and Symphony Office
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| IBM opens the door for Linux-based servers and desktops with a new Lotus
| Notes and Symphony bundle for SUSE, Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/IBMs-New-Linux-Based-Notes-and-Symphony-Office/
Related:
IBM Offers Collaboration Support for Ubuntu
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| IBM today announced that it will offer an integrated Open Collaboration
| Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from
| Canonical Ltd. that is especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin
| clients.
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http://www.ebizq.net/news/8847.html?rss
IBM Translates Lotus Symphony for a Globally Integrated World
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| Lotus Symphony is a suite of software tools for creating text, spreadsheet
| and presentation documents -- the most frequently used desktop tools -- based
| on OpenOffice code. It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), Microsoft
| Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0350350.htm
Microsoft's Lotus FUD Tools
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| It's Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla,, and Microsoft just can't resist playing
| spoiler to IBM announcements—software-as-a-service offerings for SMBs, new
| forthcoming Domino and Notes features, and software collaboration agreement
| with SAP.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/messaging_collaboration/news_briefs_12208.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
The Standard Trolls
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| It is hard to resolve the pecking order of posters in the Microsoft blogger
| echo chamber. So let's just remark that all the usual suspects assisted in
| this one: Doug Mahugh, Stephen McGibbon, Oliver Bell, Gray Knowlton, etc. Mix
| together, shake, repeat, turn the crank and presto! Out comes news.
|
| [...]
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| By analogy to patent trolls, what we're seeing here is the behavior of a
| standards troll -- defining a conformance clause so vague that everything in
| the world is considered to support it, and then searching through
| competitor's web sites in hopes of finding some place where they stumbled
| into supporting it, and then trying to extract some advantage from it.
|
| The point should be to look for examples of where OOXML is supported to the
| highest degree, to point out the best examples of high-fidelity interchange
| that your standard allowed. You would think that with so many people at
| Microsoft with "interoperability" in their job titles, that this would be
| obvious. I guess not. But don't be sad. You can always count
| on "supportadmin3" to cheer you up!!!
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/standard-trolls.html
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