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by The EditorComputerworld give their take on IBM’s recent release of Lotus Notes for Linux:
A full year ahead of schedule IBM has brought Lotus Notes to the Linux desktop. A Linux client for Notes wasn’t expected until the arrival of Hannover, the next major release of the Notes platform, in 2007. But Big Blue had a surprise up its sleeve and, earlier this month, it announced the availability of a Linux version of the current Notes 7 client.
According to company spokespeople, some 5,000 IBM employees have been using Notes on Linux as part of the IBM’s internal beta test programme. It’s no secret that IBM is planning a steady transition to the free OS for many of its corporate workstations.
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