If you weren’t following the mayhem of E2.0 on twitter, then here’s a little background on the excitement for Lotus Connections this week. I have YET to see a single comment from an analyst or casual observer that even put MS in the same arena.
Enterprise 2.0 Face-off: Microsoft Lags Behind IBM in Social Software
“While both vendors showed their products could integrate with existing e-mail systems (especially e-mail systems that they sell, such as Notes and Exchange), IBM’s Lotus Connections looked, at minimum, a year or more ahead of SharePoint in its social computing capabilities out of the box. It was a lot prettier looking, too.”
“Connections has a good-looking user interface that even Venky Veeraraghavan, program manager at SharePoint, admitted during his closing remarks are currently much better than SharePoint.”
IBM-Microsoft Shootout at Enterprise 2.0
“IBM came off looking better for various reasons. They fielded a more focused demo team — never to be underestimated — but also because Connections has some slick, Ajax interfaces, and SharePoint does not.”
“IBM also previewed a selection of alphaware, including a social network analysis module and feed reader that will darken the marketplace “some time this year.” SharePoint in contrast, came off as quite boring, and in the “back-channel” chat room a lonely, dogged Redmond representative got tortured by attendees. “
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Filed under: Lotus Connections, Lotus Software, Social Computing
