IBM Workplace
IBM Workplace is a discontinued a brand of
History
In 2002 at Lotusphere, IBM's annual conference for Lotus customers, IBM's Lotus division announced its Java EE-based "NextGen" initiative.[1] This became the Workplace brand, which IBM first introduced at Lotusphere 2003. The first Workplace product is Workplace Messaging, a lightweight e-mail solution.[2] More Workplace applications were introduced later, such as instant messaging and document management.[3] In 2004, Workplace 2.0 was released, to run inside of a desktop rich client and in a web browser.
Because the goal of Workplace largely overlapped IBM's existing
However, by 2007, most Workplace-branded products were being either discontinued (such as Workplace Messaging)[7] or rebranded as Lotus or WebSphere. Mike Rhodin, general manager of Lotus Software, said that Workplace was a way to shake up the Lotus team into creating innovative technologies, and now that technologies had been created, they were being folded back into the core brands. Lotus also heard that having the Workplace brand in addition to its other brands was confusing.[8]
Foundational Technologies
IBM Workplace Client Technology is a defunct
Workplace Client Technology has evolved into IBM Lotus Expeditor.
Products
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services is a single product providing a set of communication and
IBM ended support for Workplace Collaboration Services on September 30, 2009.
IBM Workplace Managed Client
IBM Workplace Managed Client is a server-managed rich client for IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. It has offline support for email, calendaring, scheduling, and document management. It has a plug-in for running Lotus Notes 7 applications, and a set of productivity tools for office documents, forked from OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (the last version released under the Sun Industry Standards Source License).[10] Version 2.6 was released January 23, 2006.[11]
Workplace Managed Client introduced a collaboration tool called Activity Explorer. It let teams of users manage projects via an object hierarchy, which groups together information objects (such as files, messages, and web links) that are related to an ongoing project and are shared among team members.
Workplace Managed Client is no longer being actively marketed. It was superseded by
IBM Workplace Forms
IBM Workplace Forms is a suite of products for developing and delivering data-driven, XML-based electronic forms to end-users. The product is now known as IBM Lotus Forms.
References
- ^ Wylie Wong, IBM brews Java for Lotus software, CNET News.com, January 28, 2002
- ^ Martin LaMonica, IBM accelerates Lotus consolidation, CNET News.com, March 3, 2003
- ^ David Becker, Lotus to expand collaboration tools, CNET News.com, November 4, 2003
- ^ Stacy Cowley, Lotusphere: Customers eye Workplace with interest, but are wary, IDG News Service, January 28, 2004
- ^ John Vaughan, Get your shades: Lotus looks bright again, SearchDomino.com, February 2, 2005
- ^ Ed Brill, IBM View: Lotus Notes Is A Part Of The IBM Workplace Family, IBM Lotus (op-ed in Information Week), March 16, 2005
- ^ IBM, Software withdrawal and service discontinuance: IBM Workplace Messaging, December 12, 2006
- ^ David DeJean, Good Riddance To IBM Workplace, InformationWeek, January 22, 2007
- ^ IBM ,IBM Software support lifecycle: Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6.x, ibm.com, October 14, 2010
- Heinz Heise. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ "IBM Announces New Version of Workplace Products With Enhanced Support for Open Standards and Improved SOA Functionality". www-03.ibm.com. January 23, 2006.