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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY!
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To: Sam Scrutchins who wrote (7755)11/28/1997 2:09:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (4) of 10836
 
For those not aware of this, there's a little known company by the name of IBM which is going after Microsoft with both guns blazing at the same time its sales of Microsoft-compatible hardware and software are booming. The notebooks, semiconductors, hard-disks and other top-notch hardware offerings are doing rather well, too. The combination of Java and IBM simply boggles the mind.

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Is it possible that Lotus and IBM have come up with an office-pack capable of producing the same quality workproduct just as effectively and efficiently as a person using Microsoft Office but with a smaller, leaner code base? When the product is officially released, the official coffee coaster of Corporate America will be Microsoft Office CDs. They also have a full-blown developers pack to write object-oriented extensions in Java instead of this COM nonsense.

The package is premised on a version of the old 80/20 rule: 80 percent of the use goes to only 20 percent of the software's functions. WorkPlace permits business customers to bulk up applications for power users and enables centralized upgrades for large numbers of users. It also promises an easy-to-use interface, intruding on traditional operating system turf. Lotus' suggested price is $49 per user, which Merrill Lynch characterized as very aggressive pricing against traditional office suites costing hundreds of dollars.

Skeptics and Microsoft counter that the eSuite concept is fundamentally flawed, that customers and users have never responded favorably to truncated software products, and there's no reason to think they will reverse their field now.
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