ZDNet Australia: Lotus Looks to Linux in Messaging Wars | Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: Lotus Looks to Linux in Messaging Wars

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 3, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Lotus is hoping a solid dose of penguin power will help it
remain competitive in the ongoing battle with Microsoft for the
enterprise messaging market.

“The IBM division announced a host of new product plans at its
Lotusphere conference in Orlando last week and outlined future
directions for its Lotus/Domino messaging platform.

“While some of those changes are designed to align Lotus more
closely with other IBM software divisions such as WebSphere, an
even more predominant theme is the creation of a messaging platform
which doesn’t rely on Windows as either client or server. Amongst
those, Linux has emerged as the clear favourite…”


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