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Background of Lotus chief under fire

Lotus president Jeff Papows is going to have a lot of explaining to do.

April 28, 1999 by Jon Auerbach

Chicago to IBM: Clean up your act

IBM's graffiti sidewalk spray-painting, Linux campaign has backfired. Big Blue will probably have to pay fines, in addition to bail money for its 20-year-old artist.

April 25, 2001 by John Hechinger

Delayed Lotus Notes 8.0 beta due March

Delayed Lotus Notes 8.0 beta now due early March

February 27, 2007 by Angus Kidman

IBM partners with YMCA of LA for voting rights effort

As part of the Call for Code for Racial Justice project, the Five Fifths Voter web app was built to educate and empower disenfranchised minority voters to overcome setbacks incurred by voter suppression.

October 5, 2021 by Jonathan Greig

Some Lotusphere observations from around the blogs

DeclanLynch from the opening session:Thenew Hannover client. At the moment all I can say is WOW. it looks greatand seems to be pretty fast.  this looks like a product that end userswill finally be very very happy to use.  It has proper windows gestureslike being able to highligh documents with ctrl.  It is fully extensible,allowing anybody who has deployed it to customise it for their company. It integrates into the Activity explorer. DeclanLynch from ID102, Domino 7 andbeyond:Coming Soon : Smart Upgrade 'Run As Admin' installutility. This can repackage the install kit so that it can run on any computereven if the user does not have admin privilages.  ..Domino Next: ...- Mail recall will now be part of theproduct with policies that can specify how old messages can be or if readmessages can be recalled. BenPoole (who apparently really exists-- haven't met him yet!)It was great to see Sametime7.5 -- some tremendous strides, very timely! In addition to the myriadnew features: overhauled UI, spell check, rich text support, emoticons,doclinks, expanded user details, screencaps, splendid new web conferencing,an Eclipse-based application framework, how about IBM linking up with AOL,Y! Messenger and Google Talk? Very cool.JackDausman:I'venever heard Surjit Chana, Vice President (Marketing and Partners), whohad the audience clapping and whistling with his list of priorities. Hispriority number one is "Grow Domino." And, his fifth priorityis to "take the gloves off." He was impassioned as he explainedthat IBM was no longer going to treat FUD campaigns with passivity: "weare not taking any more bullsh*t."PaulMooney:Thereis no architectural shift in moving to the new version.. none at all. Thisis progression.  There will be no rip and replace to upgrade, andbackward comparability will be standard (as it always is).  The upcomingNotes clients will be managed centrally, by administrators.

January 24, 2006 by Ed Brill

Lotus Notes 8 set for Friday debut

After almost five months in beta testing, IBM has announced the next version of its Lotus Notes platform and Domino applications will be launched on Friday.

August 15, 2007 by Richard Thurston

HP acquiring Autonomy - is this HP's IBM moment?

Is HP on the brink of its IBM moment? Does the Autonomy acquisition add genuine long term value or is it little more than an ill conceived attempt at putting a finger in an otherwise overflowing dyke?

August 18, 2011 by Dennis Howlett

Gerstner's legacy and why it matters

Some CEOs may have their hands full these days, but their challenges pale in comparison to what awaited IBM's CEO Gerstner when he took the helm in 1993.

November 1, 2001 by Charles Cooper

Alas poor Lotus, we knew you well

The venerable brand Lotus is being retired. Our own David Gewirtz has been a member of the Lotus community for almost 20 years and shares his thoughts about Lotus, the brand, IBM, and the community.

November 19, 2012 by David Gewirtz

How IBM hopes to make the cloud proprietary

IBM hopes to embrace and extend the cloud into its mainframe monopoly, and keep filing patents on the technology so as to make it an eternal lock on the top end of the business.

September 1, 2010 by Dana Blankenhorn