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.

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.

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.

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.