Check your diaries folks – on 16th October 2009 IBM Lotus and Canonical (the providers of the popular Ubuntu Linux platform) will join forces to deliver an event designed to help businesses understand and realise the benefits of open source collaborative solutions.
Adam Jollans, IBM’s Linux and Open Source Strategy Manager, will kick off with a session about open source solutions revolutionising the IT market. Then we have someone called Darren Adams (who is apparently very good) talking about Web 2.0 collaboration and the desktop of the future (today), followed by more information about Ubuntu and freeing yourself from the Microsoft Windows and Office lock-ins. After a free lunch, there’s a hands-on technology workshop which will allow delegates to experience the IBM Lotus collaboration suite running in a Ubuntu Linux environment.
With organisations continuing to look for ways to drive down costs, Ubuntu and solutions such as IBM Lotus Symphony offer the potential for cost savings – just ask the French Police. So why not invest a day to see how your business could benefit?
The event will take place at IBM South Bank. A page for registration will be available soon. In the meantime mark it in your diaries and check back here for a link in a couple of days.
Update: the link for registration is now available.
It would be great to have Domino supported on Ubuntu.
Fascinating stuff, Darren.
I was talking with an IBM/Lotus Business Partner a few months ago, and suggested to him that he should start pushing Notes/Domino on Ubuntu (and hire me in the process) at his customers here in Sydney. He looked at me like I’d just asked him to drop his trousers (which I hadn’t, by the way). Whatever, I took that as a “no”.
I guess Australia’s not ready for Linux just yet – not on the client, anyway.
What will be showing them? Notes 8.5.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 I hope!
Please post how it all goes.
Cheers,
- Mike
@1 – hi Sean… this is often asked for but I don’t know of any plans to support Domino on Ubuntu. That doesn’t mean to say it won’t happen, I’m just not party to the plans.
@2 – hi Mike… Notes 8.5.1 on Ubuntu 9.04? Unfortunately I’m not allowed to demo my Notes 9 client yet, so delegates will have to settle for Notes 8.5.1
On Ubuntu of course… imagine turning up for the event and doing a presentation from a Windows boot-up. I think not…
Which version of Ubuntu though?
I believe that 8.04 is still the officially supported version for Notes, but that’s getting a bit long in the tooth now.
Mike, I’m running Ubuntu 9.04 and Notes runs fine… although you are right, the system requirements say that 8.04 is the latest supported version of Ubuntu. Don’t know if that will change for Notes 8.5.1.