For the last four years the migration from Lotus Notes to SharePoint is all over my work environment and I worked on a number of projects related to this migration. Simply put, I thought Lotus notes was dead and IBM making their product online is only for breathing new life or extending its life.

The online Lotus Notes is called “LotusLive iNotes” which includes email, calendar and contact management. First I don’t like the name, it is long and seems like a tongue twister. Second, the offerings are so small that it doesn’t sound like a product from the behemoth IBM.

The only positive note here is that IBM is not offering this to the consumer market and is only offered to the enterprise. This should give LotusLive iNotes a branding and could get the confidence of businesses to go ahead and use IBM product over the web.

There is no way IBM is going to compete with Microsoft on this space and they could however; steal away some customers from Google’s enterprise market.

Read the full article here – “IBM Takes on Google Apps”

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IBM Going Web Based

The Baltimore Sun first dug up IBM’s patent, pointing out that it was originally filed last year, but only recently was posted on the U.S. Patent Office website. The networking remote could have built-in tags to go along with your Tweets, or you could program in customized tags that you could then access with the mash of a button.

If IBM’s remote control catches on, I can’t help wondering what other Tweevices we might see. A Tweeting GPS for your car that posts your whereabouts? A Tweeting fridge that tells the world what you’re having for dinner (and maybe even when you’re cheating on your diet)? A Tweeting power tool that lets all your friends know when you’re working on a new project?

(Side note: I wonder how long it will be before everyone that was so concerned about online privacy a few years ago realizes that that same privacy has been tricked out of them by the wonders of social media?)

But the very notion of a Tweevice begs the question: Do we need a remote control that can auto-blog? I believe Twitter to be a legitimately useful service, but I have to admit that there’s a lot of ridiculously trivial information spread through it.

Do all of your friends really need to know that you’re watching Dog the Bounty Hunter right-this-very-second?

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What if Your Remote Could Tweet?

Green500 lists the fastest 500 computers in the world and analyses them and ranks them based on their efficiency and performance per watts. This is where IBM dominates all other tech companies.

The number one supercomputer is the company’s Roadrunner system which is stationed at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory; however, this supercomputer only ranks fourth in the list of green computers whose frontrunners are still owned by IBM.

Green computers are measured in MFLops per watt where “1 MFlop” is equivalent to 1 million floating point operations per second.

The greenest computer is occupied by IBM’s BladeCenter cluster which is stationed at the University of Warsaw. This greenest supercomputer produced 536 MFlops for each watt of energy used.

Next to the BladeCenter are still IBM computers which is stationed at the Department of Energy and at IBM’s Poughkeepsie Benchmarking Center.

Of the top 100 greenest computers, IBM owns 57 of them and the highest non-IBM green supercomputer is stationed at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and is named “Greatly Reduced Array of Processor Elements with Data Reduction (GRAPE-DR)”. Other vendors that made the list other than IBM are supercomputers from NEC where their highest ranked supercomputer is at number 20. NEC’s supercomputer uses Intel Xeon processors and is deployed at the University of Struttgart.

The average efficiency of these supercomputers is 108 MFlops per watt while the aggregate power was around 200 to 230 megawatts.

IBM may have sold their personal computer business which seemed like they have focused on their supercomputer production and now their dominance is not challenged by anyone. They would likely remain dominant on this market for decades to come.

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IBM is the Greenest on Supercomputers