Ubuntu users will now have an outstanding choice with Lotus Notes, while businesses will have a great choice with Lotus Domino. Canonical is committed to bringing the best available productivity tools to its users on an open platform. Mark Murphy, vice president of alliances at Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, said in a statement that the availability of Notes and Symphony for use with Ubuntu will be a "win for customers everywhere. The Open Collaboration Client is built on Lotus Expeditor, which is based on the open-source Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
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The Open Collaboration Client software includes advanced e-mail and calendar capabilities, unified communication and collaboration functions, and general word processing, spreadsheet and presentation capabilities with Open Document Format support. We are able to offer a secure, rich and cost-effective Microsoft alternative." "We think now the time is really " and the needed business applications are available to make it work for corporations. "We are putting our money where our mouth is," Satyadas said. At the same time, an adequate supply of critical business software that would run reliably and efficiently on Linux would be needed. In the past, IBM has said Linux on the corporate desktop wouldn't happen until the operating system was good enough to allow companies to have all the functions they need to run their businesses. We never said that, but we are saying that now." "Everybody has been saying that since 2001 except IBM.