A little catch-up on IBM news and notes...
Category IBM/Lotus
From ZDNet: IBM tries to hook computer science students
Finally, IBM is going to target universities with free/discounted software and hardware in hopes of snagging the loyalty and mindshare of tomorrow's computer leaders. It's about time that someone gave Microsoft a run for their money in that arena.
From ComputerWeekly.com: IBM advancing Workplace platform
We're now starting to see the tools that will allow us to build Workplace apps. This is probably the missing ingredient that has caused most developers to either question or fear the Workplace initiative...
From ZDNet: IBM tries to hook computer science students
Finally, IBM is going to target universities with free/discounted software and hardware in hopes of snagging the loyalty and mindshare of tomorrow's computer leaders. It's about time that someone gave Microsoft a run for their money in that arena.
From ComputerWeekly.com: IBM advancing Workplace platform
We're now starting to see the tools that will allow us to build Workplace apps. This is probably the missing ingredient that has caused most developers to either question or fear the Workplace initiative...
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http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf/stories/1e0d8e0cd71c736f85256ed700625488?OpenDocument
What is scary is that this program has been in place for years and is little known. The deeper best-kept secret is that if an educational institution (or educational non-profit) wanted to deploy all Lotus Software (with the exception of Learning Space and its subsequent products) to all faculty (teaching and research, research staff and students, it can do so free. Oklahoma State seems to have missed this when they were doing their TCO 'study'.
So in the case of Oklahoma State for example, all Lotus Notes, Sametime and Quickplace seats for people who meet this criteria would be free. They would only need to license software for administrative types.
Lotus Software made this decision because Lotus software is about collaboration and you cannot 'teach' collaboration like you can teach to program a relational database with DB2. You learn by using and doing.
The link for the program is
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/university/
and the Lotus specific information is at
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/university/members/faq.html#eligible
I have used this program for the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business when IBM, without a lot of warning, abandoned the Total Campus Option licensing prgram, leaving schools high and dry.
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And Chris Miller's reply to my post:
http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf/stories/2fc2a5401d7d36c185256ed80068978f?OpenDocument
WE used to be heavy into academics and the TCO (Total Campus Option) which was crazy discounted pricing for all Lotus Software. Messaging users fell at around $2-6 per year per user with no server fees. Yes, TWO to SIX dollars depending on the size of the acadmeic site. THere are so many still running Notes it is silly. But IBM removed that program and is migrating all that know to the Scholar's Program that he mentions above.
Most IBM reps don't seem to know about it and schools see this huge jump in pricing and walk away. It still makes most everything free and in two of our sites saved money!
Posted by Christopher Byrne At 13:37:25 On 21/07/2004 | - Website - |