Messaging Wars Are Boring, The Real Fun is Competing Platform Stacks
Category Administration Linux Sametime
Scott Morris has provided a huge list of Linux migrations. Governments, financial institutions, and corporations have all found sound business reasons for their move off of proprietary systems. His listing came to mind during an IT discussion I was having about Sametime integration.
I've been finishing up installing Sametime 8.01 on Linux (it really is as good as you are hearing). Because my company has several subsidiaries, I've been thinking of ways to include them under our Sametime umbrella. Well, Sametime is "Lotus" and so the discussion was led to into an Exchange-vs-Domino conversation. I deferred.
Really, the landscape has changed, the old wars are history. Vast numbers of Exchange accounts are moving into a hosted environment. There just isn't enough substance , in my mind, to justify keeping Exchange local unless it is for compliance reasons. Today's debate is about a much more complex mix of messaging standards than the old client/server model.
In NetworkWorld, John Fontana has an article about Exchange being dumped for Linux-based clone. Moving off of Exchange, a hospital was able to free up storage limitations, and provide improved support for message recovery.
Going to an open-source platform stack proved to be more economical, and flexible. Escaping vendor lock-in allows for future-proofing and because of open source, this can be a better fiscal decision.
So, I'm not really looking at single vendor solutions, as much as what can be built out on a mix of open-source platforms and hosted solutions. Right now, Sametime on Linux can work simultaneously with multiple LDAP sources. Next week, I hope I can connect up with our e-dir admin, and see about making some headway.
Technorati Tags: IBM/Lotus Sametime
Scott Morris has provided a huge list of Linux migrations. Governments, financial institutions, and corporations have all found sound business reasons for their move off of proprietary systems. His listing came to mind during an IT discussion I was having about Sametime integration.
I've been finishing up installing Sametime 8.01 on Linux (it really is as good as you are hearing). Because my company has several subsidiaries, I've been thinking of ways to include them under our Sametime umbrella. Well, Sametime is "Lotus" and so the discussion was led to into an Exchange-vs-Domino conversation. I deferred.
Really, the landscape has changed, the old wars are history. Vast numbers of Exchange accounts are moving into a hosted environment. There just isn't enough substance , in my mind, to justify keeping Exchange local unless it is for compliance reasons. Today's debate is about a much more complex mix of messaging standards than the old client/server model.
In NetworkWorld, John Fontana has an article about Exchange being dumped for Linux-based clone. Moving off of Exchange, a hospital was able to free up storage limitations, and provide improved support for message recovery.
Going to an open-source platform stack proved to be more economical, and flexible. Escaping vendor lock-in allows for future-proofing and because of open source, this can be a better fiscal decision.
So, I'm not really looking at single vendor solutions, as much as what can be built out on a mix of open-source platforms and hosted solutions. Right now, Sametime on Linux can work simultaneously with multiple LDAP sources. Next week, I hope I can connect up with our e-dir admin, and see about making some headway.
Technorati Tags: IBM/Lotus Sametime
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