Where IBM and Lotus Are Heading

The future direction for IBM and Lotus will be to address the changes in the needs of many corporations, from basic Web hosting to new services that would include collaboration and on demand capacity. The continuing enhancements to WebSphere Portal are particularly interesting in this context. Over the past couple of years, the Lotus range has expanded to embrace technologies such as instant messaging and chat; in effect, IBM has recognized that these new technologies of presence offer the possibility of incremental collaboration. The use of WebSphere and Domino together and use of the improving WebSphere Portal is the payoff. The WebSphere Portal incorporates the Lotus-derived Collaboration Center, which offers ...

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