Gregg Eldred

As only The Register can do, Timothy Prickett Morgan has written an article for them on Lotus Foundations. The opening paragraph sets the tone:

It's pandemonium out there. Cats are living with dogs. There's chocolate in my peanut butter. Software units are selling servers and calling them appliances.

To add further weight to what Ed and Bilal have been saying, The Register, being The Register, is a bit more blunt:

The Lotus Foundations appliance, which is made in IBM's factories in China, is meant to be installable by idiots - er, small and medium businesses with limited IT expertise and business partners who are going to try to make a living selling lots of these boxes rather than put in billable hours doing break/fix maintenance on hardware and software sold on commodity X64 servers.

Again, confirming what has already been said, the Foundations Business Partners (and IBM) see the value of selling the boxes rather than spending time with maintenance (read: updating software, maximizing uptime, maximizing productivity, reducing headaches). And, there are no wise cracks about Lotus Domino, rather a nice compliment on how easy it is to setup.

Link: The Register: IBM Lotus preps small biz software appliance

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Comment posted by Bilal Jaffery11/13/2008 10:15:48 AM
Homepage: http://www.bilal.ca

Awesome! I've always like Register's blunt style!

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