eWeek: IBM woos SMBs with open-source tools
August 17 2005
More coverage from last week's LinuxWorld...
Under the deal, SMBs can download Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Workplace Services Express preinstalled in a VMware environment and packaged as a virtual machine for a free 90-day trial. The download will be available next month through Red Hat Network.Link: eWeek: IBM woos SMBs with open-source tools >
Workplace Services Express, geared for fewer than 750 users, includes integrated collaborative team tools, document management and instant messaging, while providing access to existing e-mail, calendars and address books.
While the majority of IBM's SMB customers are still using Lotus Notes and Domino tools, several thousand SMBs have deployed Workplace Services Express since its launch last year, according to Ken Bisconti, vice president of IBM Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Products, in Somers, N.Y.
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Wild Bill http://www.billbuchan.com | 8/17/2005 11:47:01 AM
Waaaay! I remember harassing you on the "Bill and Ed's Excellent Adventure" tour of London in 2003 for this...
Fantastic news.
---* Bill
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Rob Novak www.lotusdigerati.com | 8/17/2005 6:22:39 PM
@eWeek: "geared for fewer than 750 users" - this was a practical but not physical limit present in WSE 2.0. It should be pointed out that the performance improvements in WSE 2.5, shipped in June, blew through this practical limit per server. IBM does have customers with near 2000 users on a single server. What a VMWare image will handle, remains to be seen.
This is a great move. MS has been doing this kind of thing for a while. The ability to just download a VMWare image and run it is a huge time saver!