Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8.5 will run on Ubuntu Linux 7.0. This shows IBM’s ongoing commitment to Linux - even on the desktop. And any Linux desktop users help IBM in its ongoing competition with Microsoft. (Domino, the server side to Notes, runs on virtually everything. I remember testing it on [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Peer Production, Software
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
My former employer Lotus has (re)-launched Symphony, an office applications suite that competes with Microsoft Office. (Yes, I know this is like sending Elmo to take on Darth Vader.) Symphony uses Open Document Format, an open standard for application files.
The fun part is that this is the sequel to Symphony - the original, released in [...]
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Filed under: Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Software, Trademarks
Posted on February 1st, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
Simple: don’t send unsolicited e-mail, right? It’s more complex than that. Kelly Jackson Higgins at Dark Reading has a list of suggestions / rules on how not to be labeled as a bad actor. Some are easy: when someone asks not to receive messages anymore, unsubscribe them! Some are more complex: make sure you don’t [...]
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Filed under: ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Notes, Security, Spam, badware
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Derek Bambauer
One of the Internet’s chief virtues is inefficiency.
“Best effort” packet routing - as Jonathan Zittrain describes it, the “bucket brigade” where each link in the network tries to pass packets to the next hop, but without guarantees - is less efficient than a protocol that seeks to guarantee transmission and thereby minimizes bandwidth used to [...]
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Filed under: ISP, Intermediaries, Network Neutrality, Notes, Spam
Posted on May 17th, 2006 by Derek Bambauer
IBM announced that the next version of Lotus Notes (minimally clever code name “Hannover“) will support the Open Document Format (ODF) by embedding OpenOffice components into the Notes client. This will allow users to save documents (word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail messages, etc.) in a portable, open format. It also sounds like Notes / [...]
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Filed under: Notes, Open Standards, Software