This session was an introduction to Lotus Foundations, which is offered as a prebuilt appliance on IBM and 3rd party hardware, as well as VMware image.
It's a Linux (SLES10 by the looks of it) based appliance, but with the OS and management on a disk-on-chip arrangement, to allow booting in the event of a failed, or unconfigured , disk array.
It's designed as an all-in-one small office (5 to 5000 user) solution, and offers File sharing (Windows, rsync, NFS and Apple), web server (L.A.M.P.), firewall with VPN support, ftp and DNS as well as Domino - no Sametime at this point.
At the hardware level, it supports drives in a RAID1 or RAID5, as well as Lotus' own idb (Intelligent Disk Backup). There's an auto-update feature as well.
All in all, for a small business it looks like a reasonable option. Not necessarily suitable for a banch office of a larger deployment, but I'm told that there'll be some annoucements about that later this week.
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