Comments on: The difference between IBM and Microsoft in SMB space

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:33:15 +0000

Thanks Kenneth for your comments.

By: kenneth cavanaugh

kenneth cavanaugh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:26:21 +0000

Hi,

I love Nitix. The Nitix operating system is like the Ole black telephone. It is simple to operate and robust, even under unusal circumstances it simply works.

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:47:55 +0000

As the blog gets popular, it gets lots of spam bots attacking it too.

The reason to stick with WordPress is due to SEO/SEM abilities and customization that I am used to (from my other projects that I work on). Helps me keep fresh on PHP/XHTML sides of things as well.

Although, I do plan to launch another blog based on domino platform. Keep eyes open in 09.

By: Christian Tillmanns

Christian Tillmanns — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:54:53 +0000

Russian spam? You need a domino blog template. Would be appropriate in your position, don’t you think?

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:53:19 +0000

@3, yes, besides the support point of view, you are allowed to run custom apps on foundations.

In fact, take a look at ISV toolkit that is available for partners to package their applications on the platform.

Regarding other comments, as Scott Hooks mentioned, that will be available shortly. It was already in Nitix, its just that code had to be re-worked for Foundations.

Stay tuned folks! Love the feedback!

By: Richard Moy

Richard Moy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:26:47 +0000

Site to site replication is critical even for small businesses. They have the need for a multiple servers environment especially for failover. For us that is a major criticism of Lotus Foundations Start.

By: Scott Hooks

Scott Hooks — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:54:25 +0000

@2: Yes, Nathan was being sarcastic, pointing out that Foundations does not yet allow you to replicate the Domino server with another Domino server (or migrate to it from an existing Domino server), YET. I have been assured that they are working on that for 1.1 though.

By: SEAN CULL

SEAN CULL — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:00:08 +0000

Its OK Lars, Nathan was being ironic, its usually left to us brits !

While I’m on though a quick question for Bilal, are we allowed to run custom apps on foundations yet ?

By: Lars Olufsen

Lars Olufsen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:47:42 +0000

@1 – except of course if you’re in a place where bandwidth is a limited resource.

Site-to-site replication still offers strong asynchronous functionality, and you can easily imagine – especially in a SMB context – apps that doesn’t rely on real-time synchronization, much like traditional batch flows on other platforms.

By: Nathan T. Freeman

Nathan T. Freeman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:15:36 +0000

“Instead of dictating what a small business owner should do, at IBM Lotus Foundations, the emphasis is on making sure that our technology fulfills the needs of the small business.”

Unless that small business has more than one location in need of a server. If that happens, they should never, ever be allowed to actually share applications. Even though we’ve built that right into the native platform for the last two decades — in the SMB space, nobody needs site-to-site replication.