What Is IBM's Small Business 'Foundations'?
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Podcast. Big Blue believes there is a big role for Linux servers among small businesses. |
Yesterday I spoke with Caleb Barlow, senior product manager for IBM Lotus Foundations, about IBM's new small business appliance server. He went into quite a bit more detail about the product and channel strategy than appeared in my post the same day, Nov. 10.
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Briefly, IBM is looking to muscle its way into—and push Microsoft out of—the small business server and services market. Big Blue's announcement was preemptive: Tomorrow, Nov. 12, Microsoft officially launches Small Business Server 2008.
Host: Joe Wilcox
Guest: Caleb Barlow
Length: 00:21:55
IBM also is partnering with VMware to provide virtualization services for other operating systems, mainly Windows.
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