Microsoft tapped IBM Lotus partners to show off the advantages of collaborative software

If you are IBM Microsoft will contact you for the company's Lotus software customers. At the Global Partners Conference this Friday, Microsoft said the company had the opportunity to win users from IBM, because Microsoft developed a series of synergies. Software While IBM is transitioning from the Lotus/Domino platform to the next-generation collaborative software workplace suite.

Chris capossela, head of Microsoft's information worker Product Management Group, said: "This is an excellent opportunity to explain Lotus users.UseOur products. We encourage Lotus customers to use Microsoft's collaborative technology ." Chris capossela said Microsoft's collaborative strategy is "a core goal for the company to succeed", and vendors are the main marketing assistance to achieve this goal.

Ryan Gavin, head of platform strategy at Microsoft, said that Microsoft has provided close collaboration products, including SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, outlook and Live Communications Server, this will provide partners with more complete system products to sell to customers.

Gavin said: "For this reason, we are working on reconstruction.Solution, We have additional benefits in product integration, while IBM is much harder. We will pay close attention to how IBM adjusts the workplace system ."

Martin Taylor, general manager of Microsoft's platform strategy, said that he had communicated with IBM's partners at the Conference, and they said that the customer requested "major adjustments to access workplace ", and expressed interest in Microsoft's collaborative software. Taylor said Microsoft is conducting research on this. "Many customers have not noticed our products. We want to help them understand Microsoft products ."

However, IBM partners may ignore the collaboration software provided by Microsoft. A partner from IBM said that the transition from IBM products to Microsoft platforms was not a simple technical problem for him. Jim Murphy, consultant at principle software, a partner of IBM, said: "If it is difficult to move to the workplace platform, why should I use Microsoft products? Compared with Microsoft, IBM invests more in US and focuses more on partnerships. IBM attaches great importance to the workplace product, which encourages us to invest, so we have supported a product. Our customers will also ask us to support their needs, and they will tell us how to do it in the long term ."

Another IBM partner also pointed out that Microsoft exaggerated the difficulty of the transition from IBM notes/Domino to workplace. Andrew Pollack, founder and president of northern collaborative technologies, said: "We do not need to transfer platforms, the workplace rich client platform includes existing and future Lotus Notes content andApplication."

Of course, Microsoft has other considerations for attracting IBM partners. At the beginning of this year, Microsoft acquired Groove Networks, whose ceoray Ozzie is now Microsoft's CTO. Currently, he is developing collaboration and P2P products for Microsoft to further enhance the functionality of Microsoft Office.