Despite the release of a new and improved Lotus Notes 8, it is unlikely that IBM's e-mail software can make any dent in the market dominance of Microsoft Outlook.
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
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You don't have to wander very far in the blogosphere before you'll find someone slagging off Domino, aka Lotus Notes.
The world changes fast and many enterprises large and small fail to see the next wave or see it and dismiss it.
Today, we exist in an economy where the services sector is the economy.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
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Big Blue says it has a slimmed-down alternative to Microsoft Office that it will bundle into the next version of its portal software.
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