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IBM undercuts Google with discounted
e-Mail service
The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to companies for $36 annually per worker
bdpatoday--San Francisco, CA The Associated Press (AP) reports IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to
companies for $36 annually per worker, undercutting a more
comprehensive package of software applications that Google sells for
$50 per user annually.
For that slightly higher price, Google is offering 25 times more
storage: 25 gigabytes per account compared to IBM's 1 gigabyte per
mailbox. Google also throws in word processing, spreadsheet and
presentation applications, as well as a video channel. None of those
features are included in IBM's package.
Even so, IBM believes its service, called LotusLive iNotes, can beat
Google because it has a much larger sales force and relationships with
corporate customers going back long before Google co-founders Larry
Page and Sergey Brin were even born in 1973.
"This is trouble for Google," said Gartner Inc. analyst Matthew Cain.
Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is responding to the increasing corporate
demand for inexpensive e-mail that's run on computers owned by an
external supplier instead of the company relying on the service. This
approach has become trendy enough to get its own catch phrase _ "cloud
computing."
BDPA & Cloud Computing:
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iNOTES
iNotes (short for iNotes Web Access) allows web users and Lotus Domino
users to access web pages and their Domino-based mail, calendar, schedule, to-do
lists, contact lists, or online notebooks from any computer, at any location,
as long as they have an Internet connection. iNotes is marketed on its
ability to allow users to interact with Web-enabled Domino applications
by using a feature called "quicklinks", as well as for its ability to
perform "data islanding", a feature that allows users to download "islands" (segments) of data at one time and minimize server contacts. Lotus iNotes
Web Access is integrated with Sametime, Lotus's instant messaging, and offered offline support through Domino Off-Line
Services (DOLS).
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Source:
Tech Target
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