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Sunsetting of the Notes based Business Partner Forum


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IBM has made the announcement that the Notes based Business Partner forum is being shut down September 30 2012.  The NSF based forum has been a way for partners to talk, submit bug reports and more for over a decade and IBM has decided to close it due to lack of participation.

Given the steady decrease in use of PartnerForum over the last several years, we believe that its effectiveness in fostering communication and exchange of problem solving ideas has been surpassed by other venues.

Therefore we have decided it is no longer cost effective to maintain this service and we are going to discontinue it effective September 30, 2012. For those who wish to keep a local replica of the database, you should archive before the sunset date.

We thank the still steady contributors for your continued dedication to the platform, and we apologize for the disruption that this decision brings. We recommend the following venues for continuing the dialogue among you and with your IBM colleagues:
  • IBM Smart Business: BP Forum - This is a web accessible public community for IBM Business Partners.
  • Greenhouse ICS community - This is a community for Greenhouse members focused on ICS. It requires membership (no-charge) and it includes more than Business Partners. All Greenhouse members may participate.
  • developerWorks Product Forums - These are particularly useful for deep technical questions. All registered developerWorks members may access. Registration is free
  • I would contend that after some staffing shifts in IBM we saw lack of response and feedback from postings in the forums for IBM.  I will keep my years of replicas close and keep digging for info in there until they serve no use.