Information Week: An Alliance They’ll Hate In Redmond

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 24, 1999

“Last week’s Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., was the
stage from which Lotus and IBM finally launched their combined
E-business platform strategy… the plan certainly assures a bright
future for Domino on multiple fronts. And it’s bound to feed the
paranoia that grows daily in Redmond.”

“And one other thing-Lotus will ship Domino for Linux this year,
too.

“All of this further focuses Lotus’ pursuit of new business
relationships to exploit-particularly Internet infrastructure
companies and service providers. That makes the AOL relationship
all that more interesting-and that much more threatening to
Microsoft…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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