IBM upped the stakes in the United States in an ongoing contest over corporate e-mail software with a program that offers business partners up to US$20,000 to dump Microsoft's Exchange in favour of IBM's Lotus software on Linux.
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IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would benefit everyone -- even Sun.
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