Monday, October 26, 2009

IBM LotusLive - first experience

I recently tried out IBM LotusLive. I was very excited that IBM had an offering in the "cloud apps" arena, that my company - CloudGlow - specializes in. After logging in, I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but I actually found that LotusLive has very minimal functionality as of my testing. Given that Google has set a certain bar on functionality and performance, I was surprised that LotusLive is not even attempting to exceed the capabilities of Google Apps. The service itself seems to be all prepared for a small/medium business launch. With IBM behind it, of course, we can expect the service to get better over time. For now it seems like Google does not have to worry about it. May be it is just my view about Google Apps, but I just love it and feel that it is pure performance and great functionality (of course, it is not as extensive as Microsoft Office desktop version). It is really ready for prime time. Lets see where IBM takes their offering... the cloud apps world is looking forward to it.

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