If its a battle of web sites, I got a fair idea of Applix TM1
from there, but I'm not a potential customer anyway, if interested
I would get a more hands-on demonstration. OTOH on the lotus.com
site I got a picture of a TV commercial with some slogans, I'm sure
more GIF overload if I'd have ventured further. Anyway my point was,
they aren't in head-to-head competition I don't see the relevance. Until the first million customers have switched from Office to eSuite it won't be the MS-killer it may be intended to, either. IBM is certainly not the gorilla it used to be, they have a fair portion of any market but nothing to sound alarms about. Applix is a bit more specialized and high-peformance than a desktop spreadsheet. If Lotus has more content in Java is fine, Lotus is a big company, maybe IBM can afford to take the risk that brought Corel to its knees. The medium isn't as important as the content. If you figured Applix to take the software world by storm, you'll surely be disappointed. It does pretty good as a niche, maybe, and from that might grow.
Greg |
