Here we are. The Informica Blog.

Who is behind this?

My Name is Christian Tillmanns and I am one of the founders of Informica of Switzerland. The other can present himself.

Another Blog, my god, was that necessary?

Duno. Is there already a blog about IBM Smart Business stuff? Nope. Don’t think so. We are the first.

Why the heck IBM Smart Business?

You will find out.

Only smart Business? How boring.

I can and will probably annoy you with other stuff. I am sure you always wanted to discuss the ball and string problem, settling with power or RSV and the 72 degrees offset on the R22/44.

… oh, BTW, IBM Smart Business and Lotus Foundations. Have I told you allready, that this blog is running on a Lotus Foundations Appliance?

Pretty easy to setup, once you know how to. Since I hate adminstration with a passion you only can dream of, it normaly takes me a very long time to figure out everything. For administrative stuff I have a very short attention span. That’s why you will see this blog changing constantly, while I find out, what I can do with it.

Now, how to setup a WordPress blog on Lotus Foundations.

1. Create a team for the blog. I choose … who would believe it … blog.

2. Create a Virtual Webserver: Webserver => Virtual Webserver Tab => Add virtual Webserver and fil in the URL, you can leave the IP address and choose the team.

3. Copy the downloaded WordPress Files in the www folder of your blog team.

4. RTFM from here

There is a slight problem with the autoinstallation of themes, but there is probably a solution for this.

Recent Blog Posts

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Domino 9 on Ubuntu – The most complete how-to I have seen … Wed, May 8th 2013 8:14a Christian Tillmanns … lately.The how-to is from a friend of mine, who runs the whole Domino setup including Traveler on Ubuntu boxes. It’s in french, but since the yellow bubble is made of a bunch of extremely clever girls and boys, that should not be a problem, right? Christophe Boss, who gets all the credit for that work, is way ahead of me, regarding anything from Linux to Domino administration and he has done the Ubuntu thing for years. It works. No support from IBM, but who needs them anyway. I m [read] Keywords: administration domino ibm traveler linux server vmware ubuntu

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If you don’t want to listen, GET OUT! Fri, Apr 12th 2013 2:40a Christian Tillmanns When I was sitting through the SNOUG conference, I had not as usual, a seat in the front row. I prefer sitting up front, because I hear better and I don’t have to look around heads, to see the slides. Now this time I was sitting probably in the fifth row and during the day, something struck me. There were a lot of “listeners” just doing other things. Replying to emails, look at their phones for the length of a speech. Some of them around me, never ever listened to the poor guys [read] Keywords: office

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We are damn stupid or hindsight is 20/20 Wed, Apr 10th 2013 2:33a Christian Tillmanns We as partners are always quick in pointing fingers towards Boston, when talking about the declining market share of Notes. Lately I just thought a while about things, what the partners could have done, to prevent this. Right, we could not do anything about the message IBMers were shouting to the world 10 years ago, everything will be Websphere or Workplace and mail is dead anyway. But right before that, we had the means and the tools (most of them at least and the rest the clever guys could hav [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm lotus notes applications development email websphere

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Same procedure as every year, Miss Sophie – SNOUG-SR – Connect 2013 in Geneva Tue, Apr 9th 2013 12:53p Christian Tillmanns Only Swiss and Germans will understand the joke in the title. The yearly Snoug SR event finished with a lot of news … we all already know. Except probably for the news about Sametime Next. Pretty cool that thingy, if you ask me. Video chat on the web client? Not bad at all. Otherwise it was the same old story for the Connect 2013 part. Nothing new there. Any news about marketing? No, and I did not dare to ask. On the other hand, I did ask the head of sales for the Alps region about a mor [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm notes sametime community desktop microsoft myspace office password ubuntu

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Question for the experts … Fri, Mar 22nd 2013 9:56a Christian Tillmanns Does anybody out there know, what IBM means with Apple Cocoa support? Googling only gives the information, that there is Cocoa support, but not what it is all about. Nothing in the Domino 9 wiki either. The only thing I can find are 4 .jar files with cocoa in the file name. Lot’s of classes in there for eclipse, but as far as I can see, eclipse does not support cocoa yet and apple does not support the cocoa-java bridge anymore. I can’t see anything that helps me to understand, wh [read] Keywords: domino ibm apple eclipse java wiki

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Now this is just great… Wed, Mar 20th 2013 6:17a Christian Tillmanns What I find rather amazing – or depressing – that this lady actually believes, that the chicks will stop moving about after a while and dry back. [read] Keywords:

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And Jeff said … another 20 years of Collaboration tools Thu, Mar 14th 2013 6:15a Christian Tillmanns Sorry about that, to all the FUD providers out there. Yesterday during the announcement web-cast Jeff told the world, that in 20 years there will still be some kind of collaboration tools from IBM. End of message. Notes/Domino isn’t going away, but since 20 years ago nobody knew what Notes would look like today, we just have to wait another 20 years, what it will be. What was also interesting, for the first time, IBM said: “We have over 50’000 organisations running Notes/Domino [read] Keywords: collaboration domino ibm lotus notes microsoft server

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I thought I could not believe my ears … what happend at IBM? Wed, Mar 13th 2013 10:27a Christian Tillmanns I just finished watching the IBM Social Platform Launch broadcast. Despite some technical problems, the Q&A session was cut short and the screen showed “this presentation is over”, bugger that, I could not believe my ears when I heard at the end of the presentation Jeff Schick saying, don’t believe Microsoft and Salesforces FUD about Notes and Domino and IBM will help you to move from the LEGACY Outlook/Exchange environment to social business tools. Yeehaaaa. That’s m [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm notes exchange exchange google microsoft outlook

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XPages Workshop … proudly presented by IBM Thu, Mar 7th 2013 10:00a Christian Tillmanns The last three days were packed with XPages. I had the chance to attend IBMs free XPages Workshop in Zürich (which is also available online, if you need it). This was the second try to attend the course, the first time it was cancelled. I wonder why. Not enough attendees? Who knows. First, it was worth it. If you are like me, who likes classroom work, it really helps to focus several days just on one subject and have people around who can help, should you run into problems (which we all did). [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm notes xpages applications development microsoft outlook server

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Is it just me or do you also have this impression about Connect-o-Sphere? Thu, Jan 31st 2013 8:47a Christian Tillmanns When I scroll through PlanetLotus, I don’t have the impression that many of the bloggers have a blast in Orlando. There are a few slides, but no incredible news about something. Not a lot is going on regarding Connections 4.5. IBM Docs should be a hit, but nothing. No news about Notes Next. Nothing really exciting going on. What’s your view? [read] Keywords: connections ibm notes planetlotus