Leadership By Numbers :: Mashups and The Lotus Application Suite

Software Development Times is writing about the new IBM Mashup Center. It's not on the web, yet, but the PDF for the July 1, 2008 edition is available.

In the article, Forrester's Oliver Young expects "IBM and Microsoft to ultimately come to dominate the mashup platform market, rolling mashup platforms into major products, like Sharepoint and the Lotus application suite." Young's statement is something that was published in a June Forrester Research paper, so it's not a complete surprise. It's interesting, though, to see the trade journals beginning to understand that there are substantive alternatives to Microsoft's platform.

Just where did the phrase "Lotus application suite" come from ? Those words hearken back to AmiPro and 1-2-3 ! First, we had the resurgence of Symphony, and now the "suite" has returned. But, it works. I think that "Lotus application suite" is probably the best description, going forward, to present the IBM/Lotus platform on the client.

Shades of Back to the Future. Hm, now to work on replacing that flux capacitor.

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Comments

2 - Hah ! Yancy, I do remember e-Suite (and I think I still have one of their soup bowl sized coffee cups). However, that never really gained the traction that everyone thought was possible. It sure had a lot of people excited. So, I'm giving a low probability that the e-Suite will be returned to service.

Posted by Jack Dausman At 11:35:15 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |