Lotus Foundations brings out the best in all of us!

At Lotus Foundations, we do get really excited whenever a partner and their client is truly happy with the platform.  On my support side of things, I often hear about good humble stories that keep the support team motivated. However, as I deal with the Marketing and more on the Web side of things, I get truly happy when someone takes time of out their busy day to blog about something positive.

As some partners can attest to, I am a firm believer in forming real relationships with my partners – beyond business relationships. Business Partners are more than welcome to connect with me on Twitter , MSN,

Sametime, email and phone anytime. Best part of all of this is that I am the one who is often bugging them for their insights on different community based projects around Lotus Foundations.

In the past week alone, I’ve come across two bloggers writing about their satisfaction and excitement with the Lotus Foundations platform.

This morning, I came across Sven Meite ‘s post on how he is falling in love with the Foundations platform. Yes, you read it right – the man is in love with the technology in the Lotus Foundations platform.  The fact that we believe in working with the rest of the network and not forcing ourselves on others, as posted by Graham in his post on initial studies on Microsoft’s EBS/SBS platform, is a welcoming change for partners.

Here at IBM , there has always been emphasis on being a positive contributor to the community and making things better. The technology in Lotus Foundations is designed to simplify things for once.

As you are most probably aware, technological innovation in the SMB sector had been at a stall for a long time with the typical bloatware and break/fix approach.  Well, this is THE new approach to simplify the problems and move forward for once.

We don’t (typically) buy cars on the basis that will be coming back to the dealership every week.  So, why do we insist on using technology thats sole purpose is to break so that Microsoft can boost their sales CAL revenue for updates. On the Nitix side of things, we still have servers in the industry functioning fine after 6 years without a single failure.

Try the Lotus Foundations challenge? If you are interested, I can pull some strings with the sales division as well.