IBM on Monday is expected to announce new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications.
The new software, which falls under IBM’s Lotus Workplace strategy, is a bundle that includes e-mail, word-processing, spreadsheet and database applications aimed at business users.
While Microsoft’s market-leading Office bundle works only on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems, IBM’s new software is designed to be distributed and accessed through a Web server, and to be accessible from systems running Windows and Macintosh, as well as Linux, Unix and handheld devices, sources close to IBM said.
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