August 19, 2008
Reseller News: IBM challenges Microsoft for the SME desktop
Good coverage of recent Lotus brand news...For almost any category of business software -- from word processing to spreadsheets, presentations to communication and collaboration -- Microsoft is the de facto vendor of choice. Alternatives do exist, but who wants to be the first one to rock the boat? Microsoft has grown so cocky about its position that it even bragged that it would soon steal five million users away from IBM's Lotus Notes, a competitor to its own Outlook and Exchange.The news itself isn't new but good to see coverage in a New Zealand publication.
That's not the kind of threat that IBM takes lying down. On the contrary; it's digging in. Big Blue says that it is redoubling its efforts to win customers away from Microsoft, beginning with a big win in Asia and new partnerships with major Linux vendors.
Link: Reseller News: IBM challenges Microsoft for the SME desktop >
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Good converage indeed. What though is IBM NZ doing to stop what seems like a stampeed of government departments making the leap from Notes to Outlook?
on 8/19/2008 4:59:40 PM - http://www.geniusinside.com
Nice to see.
Ed - Exactly when is IBM releasing the name of this "big fish" that is the large Asian bank with 300,000 seats. They've been saying "soon" for a while now.
on 8/19/2008 5:06:38 PM - http://www.edbrill.com
@2 we are awaiting approval from the customer.
on 8/20/2008 5:01:39 AM - http://www.bobbaehr.com
Greetings:
Did anyone notice some of the words used in Ed's original post?
Ya see, IBM "wins" customers - Microsoft "steals" them!
May be innocent, but, I think this important to note the differences in how each company represents itself, its products, and its attitude towards its customers.
My $0.02 (which, as of today, will buy you "5.4x10-5" gallons of gasonline)
Cheers
Bob Baehr
The Unofficial Poster Child For Lotus Notes, Domino, and Lotus Foundations
on 8/20/2008 5:49:35 AM -
Ahem
Foundations on Ubuntu or other Linux distributions? Does that make sense? Foundations has Linux included - Suse 10 if I remember right.
The Sametime Foundations? I am waiting since may for the demo version IBM promised to send me, it is definately not included in Foundations now.
I think that guy isn't too well informed.
Cheers
on 8/21/2008 5:09:20 AM -
"a competitor to its own Outlook and Exchange" isn't this just what recent posts (and many older), about IBM getting the Domino/Notes/Symphony word out, have been complaining about?
Should this not read "a competitor to its own Outlook, Exchange, Sharepoint, Messenger, Excel, Word and PowerPoint". Even those making comment (and good comment it is too) about Lotus software, seem not to realise the far reaching functionality rolled into the products.
on 8/21/2008 5:46:13 AM -
@4
Pardon me, but does that mean Petrol costs $370 a US gallon?
Or did I do it wrong?
on 9/24/2008 7:26:47 AM - http://www.Bilal.ca
@5, could you email me your request, let me try to trace it within the Lotus Foundations division.
Regards,
Bilal Jaffery
Web Marketing Manager
Lotus Foundations
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Colin Williams on 8/19/2008 2:43:53 PM -