IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks.
IBM has developed an open desktop product that supports a range of applications, such as e-mail and instant messaging, without the need to run Microsoft Windows.
Victoria's Department of Human Services (DHS) will early next year implement a corporate reporting software solution supporting some 3,000 internal and 100,000 external users.
IBM brings portal software that integrates service oriented architectures to its mainframe and midrange server lines.
Once mired in a stagnant market, IBM's Lotus division will use industry standards to loosen Microsoft's grip on desktop software, according to the outgoing Lotus general manager.
The next instalment of Windows will act as the cornerstone in Microsoft's ongoing battle with IBM and Linux.
A new program to convert Lotus Notes/Domino users to the Microsoft platform stands on shaky ground in Australia and the rest of Asia-Pacific, and has the potential to fail miserably.
A new generation of enterprise portals offers a way to collabrate and interact, but getting workers to give up e-mail may be their biggest challenge.
The next version of DB2 Information Integrator, code-named Masala, will let employees do Weblike searches through a company's scattered databases, says Big Blue.
This product represents the first deliverable in IBM's next-generation collaboration strategy and signals the start of a new movement toward less expensive, more stable, and more secure e-mail systems, says Meta Group.
Big Blue says it has a slimmed-down alternative to Microsoft Office that it will bundle into the next version of its portal software.
A version of Lotus offering basic email without extra functions like a calendar is to be revealed this week.
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