If you are looking for more resources to evaluate IBM's Lotus Foundations
If you are looking for more resources to evaluate IBM's Lotus Foundations
Start first with the download of the software - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/lfoundation/learn.html
Check out the Lotus Foundations wiki: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfndswiki.nsf/dx/05312009023638AMWEB9RX.htm
There's a Linked in user group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1061417
Web 2.0, SMB & Lotus: - http://www.bilal.ca/
Lotus Foundations forum : Date\All (Threaded):
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfforum.nsf/DateAllThreadedweb?openview&login
Knowledge base resources
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=4009&apar=include&tc=SSRP4B&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en&sort=desc&atrn=IBMTask&atrv=SP&p=7
How to install it on Vmware if you want to take it for a spin - http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfndswiki.nsf/dx/10022008121117AMJBL6WW.htm
My biggest issue that is overlooked in the press releases is that like Linux on the desktop, we're still needing a critical mass of knowledge.
"but you don’t have to know a thing about Linux or these technologies to run it. "
http://lauriemccabe.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/ibm-lotus-foundations-a-real-choice-for-small-businesses-and-partners/
Oh, yes you do. Want to have roaming profiles with Vista on Lotus Foundations? Yes, you need to know what do to:
Lotus Foundations wiki:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lfndswiki.nsf/dx/04062009095609AMWEBJCM.htm
Fixing Roaming Profiles for Vista
Vista expects to find roaming profiles in either ~/NTProfile/Vista or ~/NTProfile/Vista.V2 and expects to find documents in a Documents subdirectory (NOT "My Documents")
If you log on to a LFS/NT domain using a Vista client FIRST it will create these folders without links to anywhere.
Best practice: Log on and log off using an XP or 2K client first and link the folders.
As with any technology, you need resources and knowledge to properly deploy a solution.
Interesting solution? Yes. Similar to the headless Windows Home Server? Yes.
Up and running in 30 minutes? Did it boot up in that time, yes. Do I have it set up with file permissions, email, mapped drives so that a real network is running? Heck no. There's still printers to add, drives to map, email to set up. Let's be honest about how much it takes these days to have a fully functional network. And I don't see one feature that saves my bacon every day, that of shadow file copies so I can revert back to prior versions of files without having to fire up the backup software.
Check it out, it is an interesting platform, but please, as a customer I ask you, don't sell this or any other solution to a client with the intent that "you don't have to know anything about the platform". If you are holding yourself out to customers selling any platform, from SBS to Lotus, to Apple to whatever, do your homework and know your stuff. Evaluate and learn.
Don't ever, EVER, go to a customer without doing your homework first.
Read the complete post at http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/06/06/if-you-are-looking-for-more-resources-to-evaluate-ibm-s-lotus-foundations.aspx