I'm backing IBM to win in the collaboration space

By: Gareth Howell

25 Jan 2010

Picture of a Lotus Notes client running on a Mac

I have been a Lotus Notes consultant for 17 years now. That's a long time for a product to exist in the IT product market (actually it's been around since 1989 I think); so it's worth examining why it's still around, and why it is still the market leader in the collaboration space.

Case Study: How Agdon uses technology in its business

Agdon Associates is trying to make the best use of technology to improve and protect its business.

How a small UK based business has deployed technology to to solve its business needs

New Use case for Lotus Foundations

By: Gareth Howell

4 Jan 2010

Lotus Foundations Product Screens

I've just published the first in a series of Use Cases for how Lotus Foundations can be the solution to the IT needs of a business. This first one covers the needs of a small business that is seeking to maximise its investment in IT.

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Use Case: Lotus Foundations in a small business

Lotus Foundations is the ideal solution for a small business

The following is a potential Use Case, or scenario, for which Lotus Foundations is the ideal solution; particularly as compared to (say) Microsoft Small Business Server.

Watch out for the disappearing Lotus Foundations Run license

By: Gareth Howell

31 Dec 2009

Picture of Lotus Foundations serverI've spent the best part of this afternoon resolving an issue with my Lotus Foundations server.

Lotus Foundations pages now published

By: Gareth Howell

30 Dec 2009

Image of Lotus Foundations ServerLotus Foundations pages updated

I've just updated the pages on agdon.co.uk for the various Lotus Foundations products.

There is a general page for Lotus Foundations, plus pages for

Could you switch over to being 100% open source?

By: Gareth Howell

23 Sep 2009

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes asks this in his ZDnet blog.

For me, the answer is definitely no, not quite.

Sure, I've given up Microsoft Office for Open Office (both in its Lotus Symphony guise on Windows and in its NeoOffice guise on my G4 Mac), I use Firefox for browsing 99% of sites, I use Thunderbird for IMAP email access and I use Freemind as my Mind Mapping software instead of MindManager, but there are some applications I can't get in open source form.

Prime amongst these are:

IBM Lotus releases IM and UNC addon for Lotus Foundations

By: Gareth Howell

18 Aug 2009

IBM Lotus Foundations Reach 1.0 delivers instant messaging, unified communications, and collaboration capabilities for small business

Lotus Foundations Start

An all-in-one solution designed with your business in mind

Lotus Foundations Start is a small business appliance that provides the essential software businesses need to focus on running the business, not managing computer systems. Email, calendars, office productivity, file management, backup and recovery, network security, remote access, applications, and more. All in a single package at an affordable price.

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