[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“IBM is racing to integrate presence and availability awareness
technologies with its latest release of Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5,
which ships on Tuesday, Sept. 30…“But whereas Microsoft’s offering–based on Office 2003, Office
Live Communication Server, Office SharePoint Services and other
technologies–is aimed squarely at the Windows platform, IBM is
seeking to differentiate itself by extending its offerings to the
Linux platform with the Domino Web Access (formerly iNotes Web
Access) and Domino for Linux on IBM zSeries eServer products. With
these products, IBM said it now has end-to-end support for
collaboration on the Linux platform, with both client-side and
server-side software.“Kounadis noted that Linux users will have to use Domino Web
Access (which users access through either the Internet Explorer or
Mozilla browsers) rather than the Notes rich-client, which Big Blue
has not re-engineered for Linux. However, he said, users give up
nothing by going with a browser client as opposed to a rich client
because the two offerings have absolute parity when it comes to
feature sets. As an example, IBM singled out the fact that Domino
Web Access now has the ability to encrypt and read encrypted mail
from Notes bi-directionally; it also has the ability to apply
digital signatures…”