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>Big Blue is targeting Microsoft by signing deals to have its middleware
>preinstalled on Linux distributions like Red Hat, Suse, and Ubuntu
>
>By Agam Shah, IDG News Service
> August 05, 2008
>
>IBM on Tuesday said it wants to free desktops from Microsoft software,
>announcing an alliance with Linux vendors to preload its middleware on Linux
>distributions.
>
>IBM said it has reconfigured its Lotus Foundations software -- which
>includes Lotus Notes, Sametime and Symphony -- to preload on Linux
>distributions like Red Hat, Ubuntu and Novell's Suse Linux. The repackaging
>makes the middleware easier and cheaper to install on Linux PCs, IBM said.
>
>The easy availability of collaboration tools could trigger businesses to
>switch to Linux, considering Windows Vista adoption has been stagnant, IBM
>executives said in a press conference at the Linuxworld conference in San
>Francisco.
>
>Citing Linux as a low-cost operating system compared to Windows, IBM hopes
>that preloading the tools on Linux could also help break Microsoft's
>stranglehold on the SMB market with its Small Business Server software.
>
>"There hasn't been a choice for the ... space besides the Microsoft SBS
>offering," said Jeff Smith, vice president of open source and Linux
>middleware, during the press conference. IBM hopes its implementation could
>bring its Domino server products to more SMB infrastructures.
>
>Deployment of the software, which is partly open-sourced and
>private-sourced, is as easy as a few clicks, especially for small and
>medium-size businesses that don't have the IT infrastructure of large
>organizations, IBM's Smith said.
>
>It also saves organizations time and money, said Lou Esposito, president and
>chief information officer of Stradasoft, which distributes IBM middleware.
>Making the middleware easy to deploy by preloading it in appliances or
>virtual environments has brought down install times from days to hours,
>Esposito said. It also freed up Stradasoft's resources, allowing engineers
>to focus on other projects.
>
>"Now it's all put together, plug it in -- that's what it's all about,"
>Esposito said.
>
>IBM also said it is working with hardware distributors to preload the
>software on Linux-based appliances, IBM's Smith said. The company will
>announce hardware partners later this year.
>
>The middleware will also be pre-bundled with Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10
>and Ubuntu Linux. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, will make the
>middleware components, like Notes, separately available as downloads, said
>Malcolm Yates, partner manager at Canonical. The Linux distributions are not
>limited to desktops -- they could also work on laptops, Yates said.
>
>IBM will also ship the repackaged middleware for Apple's Macintosh OS later
>this year, Smith said.
>
>The company on Tuesday also announced a software toolkit to write
>applications specifically for Lotus Foundations deployed on the appliances,
>Smith said.
>
>
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