IBM to Launch LotusLive iNotes Monday, Challenges Google

IBM is taking on Google in the cloud-computing based hosted business email service with LotusLive iNotes, which will be offered beginning Monday. Software as a service is a popular option for companies that want to rent, instead of buy, software and Google has been a big player in that area.

IBM, based in New York State, is playing up its reputation as a business technology veteran and launching iNotes with "aggressive" pricing of three dollars per employee per month. Google charges businesses slightly more than four dollars per user per month for an email service with far more memory capacity than iNotes and added features like word processing and video.

why does every thing have to start whit i in its name now? all you see now is i this i that.

Could be for IBM or internet...

Lol...

LotusNotes (begin nightmares)

Every 5 years or so there is a new letter that is cool and everyone is doing it remember xp, we had CPUs, OS, and tons of hardware.

Originally Posted by soulesschild

Lol...

LotusNotes (begin nightmares)

I wonder if they designed the interface out of the 1990's?

IBM to Launch LotusLive iNotes Monday, Challenges Google

You really can't call it a challenge unless it can actually go toe-to-toe with Google.
Maybe:
IBM to Launch LotusLive iNotes Monday, tries desperately to prove that this time, they reeeally promise that they've learned their lesson regarding PC software.
Unlike OS/2, Lotus AmiPro and Lotus Smart Suite, this time they've got a handle on how to market.
No..... really....... we mean it!

There's absolutely zero chance Google could make an app that sucked a tenth as badly as bloated XXXXXX does, so IBM is perfectly safe from competition.

Likewise, google is safe from IBM since their customers aren't the sort who make enterprise IT decisions based on a $100k powerpoint razzle dazzle to a group of clueless level PHBs who won't be affected in how it is implemented.