LinuxInsider: IBM Fuels New Blue Biz Initiative With Linux05/08/2008 09:06:18 AMMore news outlets are reporting on the latest announcements from IBM concerning Lotus Foundations Start and "Blue Business Platform." LinuxInsider reports:
"IBM has a great deal of expertise in Linux, as well as great software assets in the Lotus product set," Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "What IBM did with this offering is leverage its expertise in the product set specifically for the SMB market."
With this integrated combo, he added, "IBM has hit one out of the park."
King also tells Linux News of one of the more interesting features of Lotus Foundations Start, which should not be lost on the SMB market:
"It is an interesting box -- an X86-based tower server," he noted. "It includes a suite of Lotus applications that basically are a plug-and-play operation." That is, it can perform just about any task from backup to productivity.
"It has an interesting 'ET Call Home' style support as well," King added.
"It is different from the typical Wintel (Windows on Intel) products that dominate this space."
Link: LinuxInsider: IBM Fuels New Blue Biz Initiative with Linux
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