[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] How to not communicate to a community in 1 easy lesson: - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Tue, Nov 16 2010 23:53 bradley

How to not communicate to a community in 1 easy lesson:

How to not communicate to a community in 1 easy lesson:

Ed Brill - The Foundations announcement:
http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/the-foundations-announcement

"If IBM was to market sushi, they would advertise it as cold dead fish."

Ed you gain brownie points over Microsoft in your argument that migrations are insane - http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/microsoftgeek-out-with-perry-why-migrations-instead-of-in-place-upgrades but you lose major brownie points in how IBM has communicated (or rather NOT communicated) as to what is happening with Lotus Foundations.

I still can't figure out what's going on.

You killed the Lotus appliance as far as I can see.  You are moving some of the software to the cloud. 

I think it's dead ... at least as we know it now.

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# re: How to not communicate to a community in 1 easy lesson:

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:03 AM by Greg Charland

It's an academic question at this point. The product (and concept) are clearly done. I pretty much figured that when Vista and Win 7 took such efforts to support.

No product can be viable without effective marketing. And LFS potentially competed with too many other IBM products.

Meanwhile the market has moved on.

# What happened to IBM's "SBS"?

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:54 PM by Joe Raby

I think the full name was Small Business Suite for Linux.  What ever happened to it?  I remember they were marketing it just before MS's SBS 2008 was released.