Red Hat offering "open" IBM Lotus Domino
(Credit: Red Hat)
Ah, how the mighty have fallen. In what must have been gross oversight, Red Hat is pitching proprietary software on its website under the banner of “No vendor lock-in.” The way Red Hat and IBM make it appear, simply running one’s software on an open platform like Linux magically removes the proprietary lock-in of the application.
I hate to say this, Red Hat, but it just doesn’t work that way. Last time I checked, IBM’s Lotus Domino is proprietary software and running it on Linux hasn’t changed that fact.
If it did, we’d be calling Microsoft Office open source (Hey, it runs on Linux via WINE) and a whole host of other things “open” and “lock-in free.”
Red Hat’s positioning of IBM’s software on its site is oddly out of character with the open-source leader:
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