Big Blue goes after Microsoft
p2pnet.net News:- “IBM’s new Web-based software package aims to let corporations use as much or as little of Microsoft’s software as they want – or none at all.”
That’s the way BusinessWeek online describes things here, referring to Big Blue’s plans for IBM Workplace, a new software strategy.
Not at all coincidentally, IBM is making the move well in advance of the arrival of the much-discussed but yet-to-be-seen Longhorn, not slated to appear on the scene until 2006 with a beta due next year (maybe), as things stand.
IBM, on the other hand, “weaves together e-mail, collaboration software, IBM’s Web portal, a small database, software for working on Web applications offline, and desktop-productivity applications including word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation manager,” says BusinessWeek.
“It’s aimed not at individual consumers but at corporations.”
Moreover, “We’re delivering this here and now. It’s 2004, not 2007 or whenever,” Steve Mills, general manager of IBM’s software group, is quoted as saying.
Nor is IBM the only danger in town.
Red Hat, too, is going up against Microsoft, with Red Hat Desktop.
