TechDirt article - Will History Repeat Itself With Google Playing The Part Of Lotus?
Tags :Symphony Productivity Tools OpenOffice
A short article playing on the fact of Lotus entering the office software space full force. One part of a paragraph stood out to me
He then equates Google to the latter-day Lotus, painting a scenario where Google smugly laughs off a bloated but feature-rich (imaginary) NewSDK from a bratty startup, only to then get disrupted by this SDK when browser capabilities improve. Of course, part of the analogy breaks down because Microsoft was hardly a bratty startup when it succeeded where Lotus failed.
This article goes after the older Lotus office entry with SmartSuite I believe and not the current Symphony part Deux. I have not said much about Symphony, there is plenty out there. I used the Productivity Tools during Collaboration University as well as OpenOffice. I found issues in both. I use Microsoft Office most of the time because that is where the masses were right? But will Symphony part Deux take over a huge slice of the MS Office world? Not in a large percentage. Can it assist in the SMB space that uses Lotus already? Maybe not if they move to 8 and use the built in Productivity Tools. So the press is behind the announcements, IBM is pushing the newswires with the announcements, people are downloading to check it out. So how fast will Lotus update the software to match and exceed what is out there now is what remains to be seen.
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On Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 by Chris Miller
