IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_us_tec_ibm_google.html

by vegasbrianc • 17 years ago

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abyx• 17 years ago

Who in their right mind would choose Notes over anything else (Gmail, outlook, pine, telnet)?

jacquesm2• 17 years ago

Not only that, but which corporation would outsource their email to a third party like IBM, Gmail, Microsoft or anybody else for that matter ?

I know that plenty of companies do it, but I really wonder if they've thought it through.

Email services are not just an expense item to be outsourced, it's a very critical item that is best kept in-house under your own control as much as possible.

briansmith• 17 years ago

Even if you hire IT staff, how much of it is really under your own control? Do you really control your IT staff more than you control an outsourcing firm?

derwiki• 17 years ago

I had an interesting conversation with one of the Lotus directors a few months ago -- he truly believes that Notes is better than Gmail from a user experience perspective.

If IBM's offering is anything like the internal iNotes they piloted, I feel bad for any company that makes the switch. iNotes was a perfect opportunity to redo the Notes UI and catch up with the rest of the world with respect to email usability. Instead, they just wrapped the crufty old Notes into a shiny web container.

acg• 17 years ago

No doubt this is part of a play to keep Notes customers after google provided a migration path away from notes. It will be interesting the next few years, when corporations upgrade their old desktops from XP to something else, whether they take the chance to move from notes.

dualogy• 17 years ago

Notes migrations are already happening all over the place -- only it's SharePoint that many corps are moving to, for better or worse.

KWD• 17 years ago

In my time in the corporate world I much preferred Lotus Notes to Outlook for email, calendering, etc. And generally, you also had Notes development occurring which provided useful applications for the department. All IBM really needs to do at this point is develop and announce an 'App Store' for Notes and they'd be the hot topic again.

commiebob• 17 years ago

$14 dollars less, but only 1 gig of storage - compared to Google's 25. 1 gig is laughable in the age of sub $100 TB disks.

supertramp• 17 years ago

IBM "wishes" it undercut Google with discount e-mail service

manish• 17 years ago

"None of those features are included in IBM's package.

Even so, IBM believes its service, called LotusLive iNotes, can beat Google because it has a much larger sales force and relationships with corporate customers going back long before Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were even born in 1973."

I give up.

mmc• 17 years ago

This quote is one of the better mainstream-media explanations of cloud computing I've seen:

"Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is responding to the increasing corporate demand for inexpensive e-mail that's run on computers owned by an external supplier instead of the company relying on the service. This approach has become trendy enough to get its own catch phrase - "cloud computing.""

IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service

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