Comments on: Tivoli and Lotus acquisitions weren’t failures. More thoughts on why IBM should buy Amazon

By: And so on Amazon and clouds « Adventures in systems land

And so on Amazon and clouds « Adventures in systems land — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:01:04 +0000

[...] back to that one day. What we didn’t get to discuss was Amazon, cloud computing and James on/off theory on IBM and [...]

By: Adventures in systems land

Adventures in systems land — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:22:43 +0000

[...] , redmonk , web services , wsdm I’ve been meaning to respond to Monkchips speculation over IBM and Amazon from last year this follow-up why Amazon don’t need IBM. James and I met-up briefly before [...]

By: Ric

Ric — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:11:20 +0000

and the word is that ALL presentation-layer technology (including Websphere Portal) will be branded as Lotus …

By: Richard G Brown

Richard G Brown — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:52:42 +0000

“but that doesn’t make it any less likely IBM bean counters would have pushed back about the ‘new boys’”

Fair point.

“Bear in mind SWG only announced support for HP-UX as a top tier platform in the late 90s.”

One of my first jobs in IBM was running the stress test suite for Message Broker on HP-UX. My thoughts about that operating system are probably best left unshared

By: jgovernor

jgovernor — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:52:48 +0000

Cheers Ric. nicely expanded. You really are getting more Lotus interested, aren’t you?

Richard - I am sure about the Sun hardware anecdote. Perhaps the Tivoli execs were exaggerating but… I accept that MQ was multiplatform, but that doesn’t make it any less likely IBM bean counters would have pushed back about the “new boys” buying competitive hardware. Bear in mind SWG only announced support for HP-UX as a top tier platform in the late 90s.

By: Richard G Brown

Richard G Brown — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:45:02 +0000

Interesting article.

The Tivoli and Lotus acquisition folklore is not something I can comment on (it was well before my time) but are you sure about the anecdote about buying Sun hardware? I could have sworn MQ ran on multiple platforms way before 1996. It must have been tested on *something*

By: Ric

Ric — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:15:42 +0000

I’ve never been a big Notes/Domino fan, although I thought they were potentially more powerful than what MS had in the same space, but recent activity under the Lotus brand, notably Quickr and Connections, and their good fit with the Websphere products and the Eclipse RCP suggests that IBM will see greater value from the division in the future.