IBM Accelerates Desktop Customer Choice With Support for Ubuntu, Red…
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- IBM Accelerates Desktop Customer Choice With Support for Ubuntu, Red…
- Compete solely on price? No thanks.
- Windows Vista Deemed ‘Most Secure’
- Domino, Lotus road map revealed
IBM Accelerates Desktop Customer Choice With Support for Ubuntu, Red…
WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Jan 22, 2008
“Red Hat is proud of our joint work with IBM to reduce the complexity of deploying and operating messaging and collaboration solutions” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Enterprise Linux Business at Red Hat. “This initiative is further evidence of our commitment to not only reduce our customers acquisition costs, but to reduce their yearly operating expenses, while greatly increasing the security of their information”UbuntuBy combining the innovative user experience of the Ubuntu platform with the re-designed Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Symphony, customers will experience greater ease-of-use and comprehensive management of the desktop. Full support for Ubuntu within Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony is planned with Lotus Notes 8. 5 in the second half of 2008. The Lotus Symphony office productivity suite is included with Lotus Notes 8 and is available as a separate download, at no additional charge. Ubuntu is released on a regular six-month cycle in more than 50 languages, and is backed with commercial support from Canonical…
“Red Hat is proud of our joint work with IBM to reduce the complexity of deploying and operating messaging and collaboration solutions” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Enterprise Linux Business at Red Hat. “This initiative is further evidence of our commitment to not only reduce our customers acquisition costs, but to reduce their yearly operating expenses, while greatly increasing the security of their information”UbuntuBy combining the innovative user experience of the Ubuntu platform with the re-designed Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Symphony, customers will experience greater ease-of-use and comprehensive management of the desktop. Full support for Ubuntu within Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony is planned with Lotus Notes 8. 5 in the second half of 2008. The Lotus Symphony office productivity suite is included with Lotus Notes 8 and is available as a separate download, at no additional charge. Ubuntu is released on a regular six-month cycle in more than 50 languages, and is backed with commercial support from Canonical. “IBMs plans to deliver the IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution with Lotus Notes on the Ubuntu platform is a win for customers everywhere” said Mark Murphy, vice president of alliances, Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.
Compete solely on price? No thanks.
InfoWorld – Jan 23, 2008
Regardless what you read about him on the Interweb, I say, he’s a smart guy! 
I’ve never really looked at the price of Windows vs. But, if you want commercial support and consider a typical Windows replacement cycle (~5 years), it seems that Windows is actually cheaper than purchasing RHEL+support or support for Ubuntu. I’m quite happy to see this. Price isn’t a long term differentiator…
If you assume that a customer has 2 of these in a 6 year term, and when they do, the incremental cost is only $200, then Windows is still cheaper by ~$30 (ignoring discounts, hardware costs, other software costs, etc). The current Ubuntu support price from Canonical for 9×5 phone support is. I could have used $900 for the 24×7 support, but that seemed excessive. The current RHEL “Workstation with Standard Subscription” price for 12×5 phone support is.
Windows Vista Deemed ‘Most Secure’
InformationWeek – Jan 23, 2008
The report claims that there were 36 vulnerabilities fixed in Windows Vista during its first year, compared to 65 in Windows XP, 360 in Red Hat RHEL4 reduced, 224 in Ubuntu 6. 06 LTS reduced, and 116 in Mac OS X 10. 4, also known as Tiger. “My analysis found that researchers found and disclosed significantly fewer vulnerabilities in Windows Vista than either it predecessor product, Windows XP, or other operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and Apple Mac OS X 10. 4,” said Jones in his report.
Domino, Lotus road map revealed
InfoWorld – Jan 22, 2008
Also Monday, IBM company also announced its Open Collaboration Client Solution will come in a version compatible with the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. The Open Collaboration Client Solution bundles together Lotus Notes; the Lotus Sametime messaging platform; Lotus Symphony; WebSphere Portal; the Lotus Connections social networking software; Lotus Quickr, document management and collaboration software for teams; and Lotus Expeditor, an Eclipse-based development environment. In addition, IBM and Red Hat announced a new partnership aimed at SMBs. The companies plan to sell an offering that combines Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform and Enterprise Linux Desktop with IBM’s Lotus Notes client, Symphony, and Domino server.
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