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My Initial Thoughts on IBM’s Acquisition of Red Hat: Open Source, ICS, and Culture 
By Bill Malchisky | 10/29/18, 1:57 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As you most likely heard, on Sunday, 28 October, IBM and Red Hat (RH) announced their longstanding collaboration efforts will become permanent: IBM is acquiring Red Hat. In watching the Twitter threads rooted on the announcements, many die-hard independent pro-Linux geeks became irate simply because they felt Red Hat was the firm to keep enterprise corporations in-check, not join them. In the words of Red Hat's Paul Cormier, "Today is a banner day for open source."--See Red Hat Link 4 below.
In speaking/chatting with several people in the IBM Community Sunday evening to learn their concerns and perspectives, along with Mr. Cormier, I too offer a more optimistic take.
IBM Domino and Docker Support Announced
By Bill Malchisky | 8/16/17, 1:42 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
During Barry Rosen's Future directions on Notes/Domino session and again during our Linuxfest DC session last week at MWLUG, IBM announced that they will support Domino on Docker with Domino 9.0.1 FP10. Originally, this support would be announced in 2018, but due to the success of the IBM Application Insights Survey announced at Engage, IBM changed their task priorities and accelerated Docker support based upon your input.
Attention IBM Customers and BPs, Be Heard! New IBM Notes/Domino Application Survey
By Bill Malchisky | 8/15/17, 6:50 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse
After the success of the first IBM survey announced at our IBM Engage session in May (see link to post)---which helped to re-prioritize new capabilities like Docker---Barry Rosen announced a new survey at MWLUG. I completed it and am pleased with this survey's focus on APIs, app modernization, along with creating a new feeling that IBM is serious about Domino as an application development platform.
Do You Have An Opinion on the Domino Application Platform Direction? Read This.
By Bill Malchisky | 5/18/17, 9:57 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As Barry Rosen mentioned during our Engage session last week, ICS Offering Management is seeking feedback around the Domino application platform. This opportunity is significant enough that I felt it appropriate to author a separate post.
The ICS on Linux Round Table Session Notes
By Bill Malchisky | 5/15/17, 8:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Great session last Monday. We filled the table with overflow and discussed many good topics raised by the attendees. Below are the notes and some of the URLs cited during the event. Please feel free to comment and keep the discussion going.
Notes Domino Templates Get Slated for an Update. Here’s the Roadmap
By Bill Malchisky | 10/3/16, 4:33 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
This is the first of two roadmap posts I authored for release this week. Beyond my post last month where I covered lightly that templates would be upgraded, Barry Rosen provided an updated roadmap with two slides covering just Notes Domino Templates.
IMSMO 2.0 (Project Hawthorn) Expands Client Offerings, Crash Avoidance Tip, and an Updated Schema
By Bill Malchisky | 9/26/16, 7:58 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
On Thursday, 22 September, IBM Social Business Community Call where Luis Guirigay, Barry Rosen, and Scott Vrusho provided a quality session on IMSMO 2.0, IBM re-announced to a larger international audience new support for Outlook 2010 and 2016.
A Conversation with Barry Rosen, at IBM: Part II
By Bill Malchisky | 9/21/16, 1:30 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Below is the completion of my interview with Barry Rosen, IBM Offering Manager for ICS. Enjoy! As indicated in the slide yesterday, the entire feature set of 9.0.2 will not be released into one Feature Pack (FP), but over four. Yes, the next four FPs will introduce what 9.0.2 would have offered.
A Conversation with Barry Rosen, at IBM: Part I
By Bill Malchisky | 9/20/16, 1:24 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
During ICON UK 2016 in London, I took some time to talk with the IBM Offering Manager for ICS covering IBM Notes, Domino, Verse on Premises, and Sametime, Barry Rosen. Our initial Q&A turned into about a 30 minute dialogue, which I found quite informative. With his permission, I am posting the more interesting parts of our conversation.
IBM Verse On-premises Architecture and Insight
By Bill Malchisky | 8/4/16, 1:47 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Yesterday, IBM provided a preview call for select customers covering IBM Verse On-premises (VOP). Those in attendance were amongst the first to receive updated particulars on this product. I explicitly asked and received permission to provide this information. Here is a subset of relevant items discussed/presented.
ICS Summer School - Sign-up Now
By Bill Malchisky | 5/4/16, 12:02 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Don't let your kids, your sibling(s)'s kids, or even your neighbor's children be the only one's getting smarter this summer. The IBM/Lotus Community has some great opportunities to help you learn with your friendly community members and some of the most knowledgeable presenters anywhere. (European offerings will be posted soon.)
IBM Software and iOS 9 Support
By Bill Malchisky | 9/16/15, 6:41 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As Apple plans to release its new mobile operating system today (16 September 2015), IBM kept busy the past few days updating their correlated technotes. Thus, it seemed appropriate to offer a few links to showcase how IBM plans to support this latest Apple offering vis-à-vis Traveler, Verse, and Connections Cloud Traveler.
Linux Bash Bug - Shellshock - is Real: Get Patched (AIX, Mac Too)
By Bill Malchisky | 9/25/14, 2:26 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Kenio Carvalho
This is ugly, but fortunately you just have to update to a fixed Bash version and you are fine (for now). No need to reboot your system either. Red Hat is out early on this and escalated this appropriately.
IBM’s Lost Art of Installation is Costing Them Revenue
By Bill Malchisky | 8/26/14, 7:30 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho
IBM Connections 5 became available mid-June and like many people, immediately began the download process. I started constructing the trend line for how this product and others progressed overtime, contrasting that with Sametime Community Server and Domino, plus the process to start upon installing each product.
Fixing "Unable to locate Perl on this system" for Domino on Linux and UNIX
By Bill Malchisky | 9/18/13, 12:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff
IBM published a new requirement for Domino on both UNIX and Linux, in that they are now using an updated Perl version. Thus, any package created after July 2012 needs version 5.6.0 or better.
A Few Quick Points on Domino 9, x64, and Linux
By Bill Malchisky | 3/25/13, 7:52 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff
IBM released Notes Domino 9 this week and it has been a firestorm of zeal, anticipation realized, fun tweets, community upgrades, and success stories overall. Included in the server code are two x86 Linux installation flavors for the first time.
IBM Connect Slides Uploaded
By Bill Malchisky | 2/6/13, 1:23 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff
I took some time today to update My Presentations page and insert the latest (updated) slides from my IBM Connect 2013 session.
Big Day for IBM Social Business
By Bill Malchisky | 9/12/12, 11:07 AM | - | Added by
Today is when IBM gets to announce some new product enhancements surrounding their analytics and mobile capabilities for their social business offerings. Press announcements, customer success stories, and product information are all making headlines today. Great news for IBM and this ever growing market.