Sametime server for Linux being announced today

August 14 2006

Hey look!  After years of being asked "where is it", it's coming!  Later today at Linuxworld, IBM is announcing a Linux version of the Lotus Sametime server.  Scheduled release: first half, 2007.  Plans are to run on Red Hat and SUSE.  Combine this with the already-announced plan for Lotus Sametime 7.5 client to run on Linux, and IBM becomes the first major vendor to offer a complete, extensible real-time collaboration solution (IM, chat, presence, and web conferencing) for Linux.

There's been a lot of hue and cry in the few weeks, saying that IBM isn't listening, so it's good to be able to say, "see, IBM is listening to the market".  Like a Notes client on Linux, the answer was first "no never" and now has become "yes because you asked for it".  I should have other (albeit less significant) similar news sometime this week.

As I'm traveling on Monday, I won't be able to update this post often.  Watch Adam Gartenberg's blog for all the latest on this announcement and a link to the press release.

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Sametime 7.5  Add/View Comments [14]

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  1. 1  Jens http://www.ligonet.ch | 8/14/2006 7:34:44 AM

    One single word in BIG Letters:

    WOW

  1. 2  Roberto Boccadoro  | 8/14/2006 8:06:16 AM

    Waiting for Carl's comments :-)

    RoB

  1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/14/2006 8:08:52 AM

    @2 I think Carl already said something at { Link }

  1. 4  Bill Dorge  | 8/14/2006 8:26:10 AM

    Great News!!

  1. 5  Wild Bill Buchan http://www.billbuchan.com | 8/14/2006 9:31:59 AM

    Bravo!

    And when someone darkly hinted at LotusSphere that "you aint seen nothing yet"..

    Linux Notes client.

    Linux Sametime server

    Sametime v7.5

    Quickplace v8

    And hopefullly soon - the Mac 7.0.2 client.

    For a company that was not doing much till Hannover, Westfords been *flying*.

    Cant wait to see whats cooked up for Lotusphere!

    ---* Bill

  1. 6  Justin Ord  | 8/14/2006 1:16:11 PM

    Excellent!!!

    This is really existing news, yet another Windows box that can be scrapped and moved to a Linux! :)

  1. 7  Henrik Pedersen  | 8/14/2006 2:06:10 PM

    Yes Yes yes, hurra and a couple more.

    Finally. No more lokking down on the floor when it comes to IM, and my quest to replace M$ in the serverroom.

  1. 8  Frank Michel  | 8/14/2006 2:29:51 PM

    I would favour it, if existing products were made production-ready at first.

    Example: we tried to move our Domino server from Win to Linux.

    In theory no problem, but: no way to get DECS up and running with an Oracle Database. In most forums I found people with similar problems, nowhere any solution.

    Is there anybody reading this at IBM who is familiar with the problems around Oracle and DECS on Linux? If so I would appreciate any help.

    Have fun!

    Frank

  1. 9  Andrew Price http://www.healthspace.com | 8/14/2006 4:57:47 PM

    Great news! Congrats to the team at Lotus!! :)

  1. 10  Bill Geimer  | 8/14/2006 5:01:05 PM

    Freedom to choose is a wonderful thing!

  1. 11  Lo Sheng  | 8/15/2006 7:19:18 AM

    Great news! Keep the momentum going!

    We were doing Domino/Notes evaluation about a month back, and we were set to establish the entire backend on Linux servers. One of the issues that were looming at that time was: where's the Sametime server that runs on Linux? - now that question is answered!

  1. 12  John Foldager http://www.izone.dk | 8/15/2006 3:13:46 PM

    Ed... that's wonderfull! :o)

  1. 13  Hynek Kobelka http://www.pylonware.com | 8/16/2006 4:55:45 AM

    Great !!!

  1. 14  Karsten W. Rohrbach http://photo.lytic.eu/ | 8/17/2006 7:21:40 AM

    That's certainly good news. I'd volunteer for a beta ;-)