Month: February 2012

[Guest Post] IBM Should Support IBM Connections, IBM Sametime and Lotus Notes Traveler on IBM i

Why Should these IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) products run on IBM i?

  • IBM i on Power Systems and it’s predecessors have literally hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide.
  • IBM i customers want to leverage existing investments in hardware, software, personnel and training.
  • Running ICS servers on other platforms complicates IBM i customer environments. Many customers have a single IBM i server running their entire business.
  • Better performance – All server to server communications is via the Power Systems high speed bus.
  • Better security – IBM i is impervious to viruses. Period.
  • Better uptime – IBM i has a higher uptime % than any other operating system
  • IBM i is IBM’s most widely deployed operating system, over AIX, Power Linux and zOS.
  • Fewer points of failure – One system to manage, administer, maintain, backup and recover.

200 IBM i customers and IBM Business Partners representing 520,000 potential licenses have already expressed interest in these products only if they were supported on IBM i

Go to this website and tell IBM that you want support for IBM Connections, IBM Sametime and Lotus Notes Traveler on IBM i.

This post was brought to you by my fellow yellowbleeder Steve Pitcher


My BLUG schedule

The next BLUG conference is just around the corner. From March 22-23, 2012 the yellow bleeding community will gather together in Antwerp, Belgium.

I’m proud to be on the speaker list and I will present on “XPages – Beyond the Basics“. The session will cover themes, the eXtension Library, JAVA / JAR design elements and also access to relational databases using JAVA and a few lines of JavaScript.

I will arrive on wednesday together with my new team member Sarah Steffen and my good friend Werner Motzet. After a few minutes of discussion, Werner decided to fly in from Nürnberg to Düsseldorf and we then will drive to Antwerp by car.

On Friday we possibly have to leave before the CGS to get Werner back to Düsseldorf airport in time.

If you still not have registered for BLUG, do it now. It’s FREE!! Look at the agenda and see what you are missing …

By the way, here is my schedule for the conference.