kripkenstein
January 26th, 2008, 04:11 PM
Looks like IBM is officially bringing its Lotus Notes and Symphony, fully supported, to Ubuntu (http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9058900&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top). What was really interesting in the article is this part:
Ubuntu support for Notes and Symphony were a direct response to demand from customers. [...] "Some of the requests came from big companies" with as many as 100,000 users that are interested in moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop.
[...]
For the past six years or so, some prognosticators have predicted that Linux on the corporate desktop was finally ready, but the move has never taken hold in a major way.
Satyadas said IBM thinks that this year, it will happen.
"All the stars are lining up," he said. "Everybody has been saying that since 2001 except IBM. We never said that, but we are saying that now."
We are all skeptical about claims of the "Year of the Linux Desktop", but this optimism from IBM is nonetheless interesting. In any case, it sounds like desktop Linux and Ubuntu in particular are doing well.
Ubuntu support for Notes and Symphony were a direct response to demand from customers. [...] "Some of the requests came from big companies" with as many as 100,000 users that are interested in moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop.
[...]
For the past six years or so, some prognosticators have predicted that Linux on the corporate desktop was finally ready, but the move has never taken hold in a major way.
Satyadas said IBM thinks that this year, it will happen.
"All the stars are lining up," he said. "Everybody has been saying that since 2001 except IBM. We never said that, but we are saying that now."
We are all skeptical about claims of the "Year of the Linux Desktop", but this optimism from IBM is nonetheless interesting. In any case, it sounds like desktop Linux and Ubuntu in particular are doing well.