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IBM to Wire S.F. State University with Unified Collaboration, E-mail, Web Conferencing

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2005--San Francisco State University and IBM have signed a $2.3 million agreement to upgrade the University's communication technologies, bringing unified e-mail, calendaring, group collaboration and Web conferencing to students, faculty and staff. For the first time, SFSU will have these capabilities, offered by IBM's new open-standards based Workplace Collaboration Services on a secure, highly available IBM eServer pSeries hardware infrastructure.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 02/02/2005 | Permalink |

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1 - For those of us who "missed" Lotusphere, is "IBM Workplace software for e-mail, instant messaging, document management and team collaboration" the new brand name for the IBM Instant Messaging Server (AKA "Sametime")? Does one buy two servers to get this functionality, Workplace and IBM IM Server ("Sametime")? <>tim

Posted by Tim At 05:15:54 PM On 02/02/2005 | - Website - |

2 - Nope IBM Workplace is not the new name for Sametime. but IBM Workplace is the new version of Sametime, Quickplace, and has a it's own email server and they bought a web content management company. So this solution could have zip to do with the existing products. Do you buy two servers to get this functionality? Well for that many users it would need to be one stonking big server, like mianframe size.

Workplace Express can run on a single server, but for most people it would be cheaper to buy individual boxes versus the recommended minumum of a single machine with 4gb memory with 4 cpu.

Posted by Carl At 06:09:15 PM On 02/02/2005 | - Website - |