“Later this year Microsoft expects to ship the next version of
its all-conquering Office Suite. I use the term ‘all-conquering’ as
conventional wisdom is that Microsoft has over 90% of the desktop
productivity application market and that must continue well,
maybe.“Office 2003 will this time have a new set of challenges to
overcome to persuade IS managers and financial controllers to stump
up to upgrade everyone, particularly as many seem perfectly happy
with Office XP, Office 2000, or even Office 98…“A recent announcement from IBM on the next version of its
WebSphere portal product puts a whole new set of options into play,
which potentially other vendors could adopt, giving companies new
choices. But first, it is worth reflecting on the increasing
importance of portal products within the IT environment…”
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