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IBM Lotus: we're beating Microsoft
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| IBM's Lotus business claims to be winning millions of seats away from
| Microsoft's Exchange, including some key wins in emerging markets. Lotus
| outgrew Microsoft in 2Q08, company officials claimed.
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| [...]
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| Picciano's gibe is presumably at least in part a reference to his company's
| adoption of the OpenDocument Format for Symphony, as opposed to Microsoft's
| effort to have its proprietary file format adopted as an international
| standard - a move that caused considerable controversy, including allegations
| of irregularities in the standard-setting process.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19775/1054/
IBM Growth in Emerging Markets Fuels Lotus Momentum
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibm-growth-emerging-markets-fuels/story.aspx?guid=%7BB457F4AE-144E-498C-8403-72800959376F%7D&dist=hppr
http://tinyurl.com/5fmfje
It's not Free software, but it uses ODF and it runs on GNU/Linux.
Recent:
Finally, Notes on Linux is here and ready
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| Anyway, Lotus Notes 8 on SLED is here and it's ready for business. It's now
| time for IBM to take the bull by the horns and modernize this legacy
| groupware client to make it even better.
|
| Hey, it does what few others do – offers a consistent cross-platform user
| experience.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/talkingtech/2008/07/finally_notes_on_linux_is_here_and_ready
Recent:
IBM, allies offer Microsoft-free PCs for E.Europe
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| International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said
| it was offering the PCs based on the open-source Linux operating system
| together with Red Hat (RHT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) software distributor
| VDEL of Austria and Polish distributor and services firm LX Polska in
| response to demand from Russian IT chiefs.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINL0486847020080304?rpc=44
Lotus Notes 8.5 to fully support Ubuntu Linux 7.0 in mid-2008
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| "We're doing pilots with customers now," Satyadas said. "Some of the requests
| came from big companies" with as many as 100,000 users that are interested in
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| moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop.
|
| [...]
|
| "Linux is cool now," he said. "We use it ourselves. We are able to offer a
| secure, rich and cost-effective Microsoft alternative."
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9058900&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top
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