IBM readies Lotus Notes 8
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| IBM is preparing to ship a new version of its Lotus Notes and Domino
| applications on 17 August, according to a company website that was published
| on Tuesday.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2196638/ibm-readies-lotus-notes
To all those who say that only Open/StarOffice support ODF, with other programs
in progress (KOffice, Abiword, Google Apps, etc).
Related:
Lotus Notes Goes Web 2.0
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| "Customers can also create mash-ups to feed the information into other
| systems," she said, adding the REST API is also being used to integrate
| ^^^^^^^^
| Connections with BlackBerry which should make its way to early adopters this
| month.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070721/tc_pcworld/134782
Microsoft needs REST
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| Yaron Goland defended his Microsoft colleague, Dare Objasanjo, as a poor
| sitting duck. He justifies the decision to scrap APP as tactical and not
| strategic. He states: “We considered this option but the changes needed to
| make APP work for our scenarios were so fundamental that it wasn’t clear if
| the resulting protocol would still be APP… I also have to admit that I was
| deathly afraid of the political implications of Microsoft messing around with
| APP.” According to Goland, “we couldn’t figure out how to use APP without
| putting an unacceptable implementation and performance burden on both our
| customers and ourselves.”
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| The implications for this APP vs. Web3S debate can potentially be enormous.
| Just as we are on the brink of creating simple architectures that are
| interoperable using simple standards, the industry risks splitting into
| separate, incompatible camps again. It is probably no coincidence that we
| have Microsoft on one side and Google, IBM and Sun on the other. This will be
| a fundamental problem for enterprise customers if Microsoft extends this
| strategy into any REST architectures that it introduces into the enterprise.
| Any enterprise systems that expose their data using APP, which is likely in
| the near future, will be incompatible with any Microsoft system that expose
| their data with Web3S.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Newton/?p=14
IBM Offers No Charge Software Trial to Companies for Real-Time Text, Video
and Voice Collaboration
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| In addition, Lotus Sametime is built on the open Eclipse framework,
| giving organizations the flexibility to expand and customize their
| platform without being locked into one proprietary software model.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070608/0263907.html
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