Great DominoWiki case study now available

July 7 2010

This IBM case study has been published for a couple of months, but admittedly, I hadn't seen it until yesterday.  The solution highlights how an IBM business partner took the OpenNTF project DominoWiki and deployed it for a small Finnish logistics company.  Great quote from the customer:

"Some small and medium-sized businesses are afraid of IBM -- they see it as a huge corporation that doesn't develop software for smaller companies. Our experience is quite the opposite: Lotus Notes and Domino are designed to deliver everything a small business needs on a single platform, and it's so reliable that you don't need a large in-house IT team to manage it."
Thank you to Ben Poole, all of the contributors to OpenNTF, and to business partner NetWell for submitting the case study!

Link: ibm.com: Finncontainers builds an open source wiki in just four weeks >

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Lotus Notes  Lotus Domino  Notes 8  Domino 8  notes8beta  Add/View Comments [9]

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  1. 1  Ben Poole http://benpoole.com | 7/7/2010 9:50:22 AM

    This is very cool: good on Netwell and Finncontainers!

  1. 2  Mark T Hughes http://HughesConnect.com | 7/7/2010 10:36:45 AM

    Sounds like an ad that i should see somewhere.

  1. 3  Chris Knoblock  | 7/7/2010 12:29:53 PM

    Great case study for the versatility of Lotus Domino. It certainly focuses on the fact that the wiki template was free, but they neglect to state that licensing a publicly accessible application on Domino is some good $$. Last I knew it was $20k or more per CPU for a Domino utility license and that was before PVUs. How do we get it so companies can leverage these great applications without a significant software infrastructure investment?

  1. 4  GarryL  | 7/7/2010 1:08:31 PM

    @3 Yes, I was wondering how they licensed this app.

  1. 5  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 7/7/2010 1:24:37 PM

    @3/4 - Utility Express is pretty inexpensive and is well-suited to the small business outlined in this case study.

  1. 6  Mike Kinder http://www.acadiasolutions.com | 7/7/2010 1:55:50 PM

    @5 (and for @3 and @4) the Utility Express server is like $2,500 USD per processor, but we are running it on Linux with 1 processor and it is performing quite well.

  1. 7  Chris Knoblock  | 7/7/2010 2:21:36 PM

    Thanks Ed! I wasn't aware of this pricing model.

  1. 8  Bruce Elgort http://elguji.com | 7/7/2010 9:30:09 PM

    From the way back machine:

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    DominoWiki was the July 2006 OpenNTF Project of the Month.

  1. 9  John Scanlon http://www.yarratech.com | 7/19/2010 1:40:25 AM

    Another case study, here:

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