IBM today announced it has acquired
Net
Integration Technologies (Nitix). Whilst this is very
good news for the Domino SMB market, this is also fantastic news for the
enterprise, why so I hear you ask? Well Nitix has always had a good
focus on making it easy to install the underlying OS and then by filling
in a few fields installing the Domino server, especially on their appliances.
So why does this help enterprises? Well enterprises like the idea
of really easy to install software too, they also like the idea of appliances
that they can easily ship and configure of to remote locations. They also
like the idea of a single installer along the lines of Windows Server,
where you install the OS and you also get web server, firewall, ftp etc.
already running, imagine an installer that installs Linux and configures
Domino all in one go.
One thing I hope will come from this,
a simple easy to install VMWare image for Partners so they can easily demo
an integrated solution, you know type in a few fields and you have a Domino/Sametime/Quickr
server running in VMWare on Linux, no pesky windows license, so IBM can
distribute it with only having to worry about their own licenses. But
also not only partners, this enables IBM to build a leave behind DVD with
a pre-configured environment that customers can try out with VMPlayer (Microsoft
does this today with preconfigured demo servers that run in Virtual PC,
but MS doesn't have to worry about or pay the Windows license).
World Cup Blog
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 11:10a Carl Tyler As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've
setup a new blog and twitter account to post World Cup events during our
travels in South Africa.
The blog is http://www.vvorldcup.com
and the twitter account is vvorldcup I've
had the vvorldcup domain for a long time, and yes it is two Vs not a W,
pretty sure FIFA would sue for worldcup.com
The blogging will be done by myself
and my two fellow travellers, Chris Miller
and Andy Higgins. Interestingly
enough we all have a very strong ba [read] Keywords: blogging
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Apple FaceTime, what's cool and what isn't
Wed, Jun 9th 2010 12:01a Carl Tyler And you thought this blog had become a
World Cup blog, ha, you couldn't be further from the truth, I actually
just turned on www.vvorldcup.com for that (and yes that is
two V's not a W) anyway back to the purpose of this blog.
So in the past I blogged a little bit
about my Nokia N800, it
was my device looking for a problem, kind of how I view an iPad for myself
today if I was to get one. One of the features the N800 had was a
camera that could swivel around so you could use it to vi [read] Keywords: apple
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Three days to go!
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 3:00p Carl Tyler It's three days until the World Cup kicks
off, which means you have three days left to get your WorldCup-Pool
entries in, it closes midnight June 10th. On Saturday is one of the
biggest games, USA vs England. If you're in New Hampshire Saturday
afternoon, please feel free to come by my USA vs England party, I admit
the flags etc. may be a little biased towards England, what can I say?
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I won the Twilio developers contest
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 11:20p Carl Tyler I found out this morning I won the Twilio Developers contest
with the Flying Club Booking System I built for the club.
I found it interesting that in the write
up I wrote for them, they removed my references to Domino and how it made
it easy for me to build it, hhhmm, they also didn't publish my picture
which they asked for. Oh my God, it is like that old joke, "Should
I tell my parents I still use Notes or I'm dating Carl?"
Still not to bad for a few weekends
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According to crowd sourcing Brazil will win the World Cup.
Tue, May 25th 2010 3:10p Carl Tyler Well I'm not really sure it's a crowd yet,
but based on the 18 paid entries received so far in my World Cup Pool
site, the highest picked team for winner of the WorldCup is Brazil, followed
by England and Spain, with Portugal and Argentina picking up the rear.
England picks we can pretty much consider patriotic English folks
like myself picking their home country, but Brazil and Spain haven't been
picked by Brazilians and Spanish folks so I consider those selections a
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A new Unified Communications Interoperability Forum has formed
Thu, May 20th 2010 9:30a Carl Tyler This new group Unified
Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF)
UCIF is a non-profit
alliance of communications technology companies working together to realize
the potential of unified communications (UC) by increasing efficiency,
decreasing implementation costs and improving the interoperability experience
for UC customers. The UCIF’s vision is to enable interoperability of open,
standards-based UC hardware and software across enterprises, service providers,
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It's nice when something works the way it's supposed to.
Tue, May 18th 2010 8:30p Carl Tyler I've had a few blog posts recently that
have bitched a bit about Sametime, and to be honest I think with good reason,
lately I have wondered what kind of QA process IBM has been putting Sametime
releases through, do they have one? So I was pleasantly surprised
the other day when I setup something for a customer and low and behold,
it worked first time, and as advertised (rare days in the recent release
of Sametime). The feature in question, Sametime awareness within
Microsoft Sharepoint [read] Keywords: domino
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Plantronics and IBM Offer Tools for Businesses to Collaborate and Work Smarter
Tue, May 18th 2010 6:50p Carl Tyler Today I was happy to see my quote in the
Plantronics
press release endorsing their products working with IBM Lotus
Sametime.
Epilio uses IBM
Lotus Sametime to increase the effectiveness of its virtual workforce by
integrating voice, data and video communications on the PC. "As
an organization with no single physical office location, we rely heavily
on our Unified Communications infrastructure to provide customers with
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Airlines and their weird mathmatics..OneWay vs return
Fri, May 14th 2010 11:50a Carl Tyler So I'm sorting out my Boston - London Leg
for my World Cup trip, and I have an unused airmiles ticket and an unused
BOS-LHR ticket from last year, so I thought, well why not get the return
leg on Airmiles and on the outgoing leg use the $ from the unused flight,
the return ticket I'd looked at was ~$1200 so I thought, a single
must be about 1/2 - 2/3 that cost. Check out the price difference...
Return Price
One Way Price
What kind of crazy mathmatics is that?
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