Nitix acquisition good for SMB and for the enterprise.
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IBM today announced it has acquired Net Integration Technologies (Nitix). Whilst this is very good news for the Domino SMB market, this is also fantastic news for the enterprise, why so I hear you ask? Well Nitix has always had a good focus on making it easy to install the underlying OS and then by filling in a few fields installing the Domino server, especially on their appliances. So why does this help enterprises? Well enterprises like the idea of really easy to install software too, they also like the idea of appliances that they can easily ship and configure of to remote locations. They also like the idea of a single installer along the lines of Windows Server, where you install the OS and you also get web server, firewall, ftp etc. already running, imagine an installer that installs Linux and configures Domino all in one go.
One thing I hope will come from this, a simple easy to install VMWare image for Partners so they can easily demo an integrated solution, you know type in a few fields and you have a Domino/Sametime/Quickr server running in VMWare on Linux, no pesky windows license, so IBM can distribute it with only having to worry about their own licenses. But also not only partners, this enables IBM to build a leave behind DVD with a pre-configured environment that customers can try out with VMPlayer (Microsoft does this today with preconfigured demo servers that run in Virtual PC, but MS doesn't have to worry about or pay the Windows license).
IBM today announced it has acquired Net Integration Technologies (Nitix). Whilst this is very good news for the Domino SMB market, this is also fantastic news for the enterprise, why so I hear you ask? Well Nitix has always had a good focus on making it easy to install the underlying OS and then by filling in a few fields installing the Domino server, especially on their appliances. So why does this help enterprises? Well enterprises like the idea of really easy to install software too, they also like the idea of appliances that they can easily ship and configure of to remote locations. They also like the idea of a single installer along the lines of Windows Server, where you install the OS and you also get web server, firewall, ftp etc. already running, imagine an installer that installs Linux and configures Domino all in one go.
One thing I hope will come from this, a simple easy to install VMWare image for Partners so they can easily demo an integrated solution, you know type in a few fields and you have a Domino/Sametime/Quickr server running in VMWare on Linux, no pesky windows license, so IBM can distribute it with only having to worry about their own licenses. But also not only partners, this enables IBM to build a leave behind DVD with a pre-configured environment that customers can try out with VMPlayer (Microsoft does this today with preconfigured demo servers that run in Virtual PC, but MS doesn't have to worry about or pay the Windows license).
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Let's connect at LS to discuss if/how this can happen !
Posted by Glen At 11:26:37 AM On 01/18/2008 | - Website - |