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IBM Takes on BPOS
IBM yesterday unleashed a new online e-mail, scheduling, instant messaging and contact management service largely targeted at users of its traditional Lotus Notes platform.
Big Blue's new LotusLive Notes is available for $5 per user per month. The company is going after Google and Microsoft, which both have similarly-priced cloud-based messaging and collaboration services.
The Web-based service is available to any business user and the company is promising 99.9 percent uptime and disk and network-layer encryption. "It will probably keep some IBM customers in the fold, but it won’t be a market disrupter in its current state," said Gartner analyst Guy Creese.
For $10 a month, IBM is offering the Lotus Live Collaboration Suite, which adds Web conferencing file sharing and social networking services to the mix.
Posted by Jeffrey Schwartz on October 06, 2010