Lotus Domino Now Available on Powerful IBM S/390 Server.FISHKILL, N.Y./CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30,1997-- Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) will conduct a media conference call at 1 p.m. EST P.M. also p.m. or p.m. abbr. post meridiem Usage Note: By definition, 12 a.m. , featuring Irving Wladawsky-Berger, General Manager of IBM's Internet Division, Skip Wyatt, Vice President, IBM S/390 Marketing, and Eileen Rudden, Senior Vice President, Lotus. Call toll-free 1-888-282-9628 Password: Domino IBM and Lotus Development Corp. today announced the general availability of Lotus Domino for S/390, providing the industry's leading groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. solution on the industry's most powerful and secure server platform. Bringing the Lotus Domino solution to the IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server A family of S/390 (System/390) mainframes from IBM that are air cooled and use CMOS-based microprocessor technology (CPU on one chip). Introduced in 1994 as the 9672 series, Parallel Enterprise Servers rapidly replaced the earlier water-cooled, bipolar machines that were considerably will allow users to harness S/390's high scalability, availability, security and power to achieve the highest levels of flexibility and performance. IBM and Lotus expect S/390 to be the largest Domino server platform in the industry. IBM tests indicate S/390 can support well over 10,000 connected users -- the number IBM and Lotus originally predicted at Lotus' January 1997 Lotusphere conference. The number is expected to increase significantly in a Parallel Sysplex IBM's System/390 clustering architecture. It allows multiple System/390 computers to work together as a single system. It supports data sharing with guaranteed integrity, extensive resource sharing and sophisticated workload balancing. cluster of S/390 servers. "Many of our customers have been eagerly waiting for Domino on S/390," said Linda Sanford, general manager, IBM S/390 Division. "They have thousands of employees, customers and partners scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. around the globe that need to communicate and collaborate on projects in real-time. S/390 offers the 'round-the-clock availability, scale and support they require for their Domino activities." The Lotus Domino server is an ideal software product to rapidly build, deploy and manage applications that help colleagues, partners and customers coordinate business activities on the Internet/intranet. For example, development engineers in different locations can use Domino to collaborate and pool resources to design a new product. Customers can use S/390's systems-management functions to consolidate Domino servers and workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. onto S/390, reducing management costs and complexity. A typical Domino-dedicated server runs at peak capacity less than 40 percent of the time. The S/390 server architecture can automatically shift other applications to available Domino processors to maximize computing computing - computer resources and achieve greater flexibility and productivity. This allows one S/390 server to support Domino as well as other mission-critical workloads at the same time. "Domino is already established as the leading e-business server solution, with extensive collaborative, messaging and information management capabilities, and expanding support for the leading computing platforms See platform. ," said Jeff Papows, president, Lotus Development Corp. "The collaboration of S/390 and Domino broadens the range of businesses that can leverage these technologies' respective strengths, and makes the promise of enterprise integration a compelling reality for organizations that need to offer users the ability to turn vast amounts of data into useful knowledge and information." The S/390 server's renowned security, scalability, reliability and throughput strengths make it an ideal server platform for Web applications and e-business activities. On September 9, IBM announced new e-business enhancements and solutions for S/390, including digital certificate support, cryptography capabilities, Net.Commerce Version 3.0 and firewall technologies. The addition of Lotus' famed groupware to the S/390 e-business portfolio makes the S/390 server an even stronger foundation for companies to communicate, collaborate and conduct commerce via the Internet. To help companies custom-tailor their Domino applications to meet their unique business requirements, key Lotus Business Partners are porting their applications to the S/390 platform. These solutions include sales and services automation applications, application development tools and project management applications. Lotus Domino for S/390 Support IBM today also announced product and service offerings to help customers get started with their Domino for S/390 solutions. The new IBM S/390 StarterPak for Lotus Domino is a low-cost server offering for Domino for S/390 workloads. It combines services, hardware and preloaded software, including OS/390. The IBM S/390 StarterPak can support e-mail users and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. database applications in a pilot or small production environment. It is designed to allow customers to test applications and then deploy them on a larger S/390 server without affecting customers' production environments. Customers can also use StarterPak to test OS/390 solutions from other vendors. IBM SmoothStart for Domino for S/390 is an installation service offered by IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. . Customers can take advantage of IBM specialists to install and configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. Domino to their IT specifications and ensure a successful transition to Domino for S/390. The SmoothStart service provides installation planning, OS/390 system customization, onsite installation and testing of the Domino code, skills instruction and delivery of a SmoothStart Installation Record that describes the configuration and administrative tasks performed for the customer. It is one of a number of solutions available for S/390 from IBM Global Services. -0- Editor's Notes: IBM news releases and fact sheets are available on the Internet, via the IBM Home Page at http://www.ibm.com. S/390 releases and fact sheets are available via the S/390 Home Page at http://www.s390.ibm.com. All Lotus news releases are available on the Internet, via the Lotus Development Corp. Home Page at http://www.lotus.com. The Lotus Home Page is an easy way to find information about Lotus and its business partners, products and services. S/390, Parallel Sysplex and OS/390 are registered trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation. Lotus is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). . Domino is a trademark of Lotus Development Corp. All other company names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Deborah L. Miller IBM S/390 Media Relations 914/892-7273 dlmiller@us.ibm.com or Paul Davis Paul Davis may refer to:
Lotus Development Corporation 617/693-8511 paul_davis@lotus.com |
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