IBM announced that it will offer <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23370.wss">an integrated Open Collaboration Client Solution</A> with support for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from Canonical that is especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin clients.

Showing strong momentum around its IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Symphony-based Open Collaboration Client Solution, IBM also announced a new agreement working with Red Hat targeting small and medium-sized enterprises, and momentum in the Open Collaboration Client Solution powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell that was announced in August 2007. The announcements were made at the opening of Lotusphere in Orlando.