Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
In an effort to pull the rug out from under Microsoft's desktop dominance, IBM has released a new corporate desktop suite designed to run on both Linux and Windows, and soon Macintosh.
The new suite will enable customers to choose
from a range of Lotus, open source and commercial products, all of
which will be capable of running on different desktop platforms. In
addition to IBM brands, such as Lotus Notes for email and Lotus
Sametime for instant messaging, users will have access to office
productivity tools that support the Open Document Format and the
increasingly popular Firefox web browser.
Users will initially be able to deploy the IBM Open Client desktop on
the two largest commercial Linux for PC distributions, Red Hat Desktop
Linux suite and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, as well as on Windows.
A version for Macs is planned for later in 2007.
IBM claims that its new cross-platform desktop solution has been tested
thoroughly on an internal deployment, which supports open standards,
and includes Lotus collaboration software products running on Red Hat’s
Enterprise Linux Workstation. IBM says it is one of the largest
corporate Linux desktop roll-outs to date.
"With the Open Client platform we’ve internally battle-tested a
Linux-based solution running Lotus software in one of the world’s
largest enterprises based on what customers have been demanding from
the market," said Scott Handy, vice president, Worldwide Linux and Open
Source, IBM. "We’ve met those market needs by creating a single
flexible software stack that only requires one set of investment and
one team of developers to run on multiple operating systems.
"Our goal is to provide a flexible open client platform that minimizes
customer investment needs and gives users the option to choose the
tools they need to do their jobs more efficiently. Increasingly,
customers are asking for software and tools that are based on open
standards that easily integrate within existing open IT environments,
and have enterprise-level security features. "We’ve addressed this
market demand by creating an open solution that runs on multiple
operating systems with components supported by services from IBM, Red
Hat and Novell."
According to IBM, it has pilot sites currently operating at a number of
large companies in addition to its own internal deployment and Open
Client is currently available.
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