My previous post was written in haste and so I want to elaborate further.
Ed's post on ASL or Application Specific Licensing hits on a topic many of us have asked for and great to see it is available.
I was interested in seeing if the Notes client and Domino for that matter, could be overlayed with our company names.
LotusLive will have this so Business Partners can White Box a solution and we look forward to it. While I have been told it is either available or coming, I have not received any more details yet. So if I am wrong, or missed an email, someone please let me know.
Why would I want to white box Domino? Just to make life easier on customers.
White Boxing Lotus Notes could be interesting, imagine if Openntf could White Box it with all the apps and openmail template added inside? It is an interesting idea to propose an open system.
Naturally this is not an easy sell to large customers but if they knew IBM was behind it at some level it may have legs. Imagine going into an Exchange shop and showing them 8.5 and under a new moniker?
Life could be interesting.
If you don't think so, you never showed a customer using outlook or Notes R5,6,7 still what the 8.5 or iNotes client are like. They love it.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
IBM, could you let us "WhiteBox" Domino
Duffbert's post is still drawing a lot of comments and other posts.
Tucked away in the comments was this from Ed Brill.
Now this is something which is interesting. It has been discussed before by the community and Business Partners.
What if one could resale Domino, under a new name, to anyone, anywhere?
What if the Notes client really was only a web based client?
OEM or rebrand/rename it sounds good.
I am sure some BPs out there have sold it this way in the past.
Do we want to host Domino for people and call it justmail? Sure, but at $40,000(or whatever the licensing costs are) or more for the licensing that is not so practical.
White Box the server so IBM, Lotus and Domino can be replaced with Justmail, Justserver and Justcool.
Rebrand Domino is also an option but no idea how close or far IBM is from doing such a thing.
Could it work? Maybe, no one knows.
Maybe IBM should do what Microsoft did and run some blind tests on web side iNotes and rename it and a website for the new product from a mythical company and see how this can work.
Tucked away in the comments was this from Ed Brill.
There is also the ability to OEM Domino and I am sure my channel sales team would be happy to explore that with ISVs.
Now this is something which is interesting. It has been discussed before by the community and Business Partners.
What if one could resale Domino, under a new name, to anyone, anywhere?
What if the Notes client really was only a web based client?
OEM or rebrand/rename it sounds good.
I am sure some BPs out there have sold it this way in the past.
Do we want to host Domino for people and call it justmail? Sure, but at $40,000(or whatever the licensing costs are) or more for the licensing that is not so practical.
White Box the server so IBM, Lotus and Domino can be replaced with Justmail, Justserver and Justcool.
Rebrand Domino is also an option but no idea how close or far IBM is from doing such a thing.
Could it work? Maybe, no one knows.
Maybe IBM should do what Microsoft did and run some blind tests on web side iNotes and rename it and a website for the new product from a mythical company and see how this can work.
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