Lotus, Microsoft jostle to land social networking customers; WiMAX firm picks IBM

Opinion
Jun 21, 20071 min

Latest IBM news.

Lotus, Microsoft jostle to land social networking customers, 06/19/07:  Rivals IBM/Lotus and Microsoft tout social networking wares such as blogs, wikis, and bookmark sharing at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

WiMAX firm picks IBM, but not for its technology, 06/20/07: Singapore’s Nex-G Systems is designing a WiMAX base station based on an IBM processor, even though it’s not the best chip for the job. But that doesn’t worry Ronnie Persad, the company’s CEO.

Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps, 06/20/07:  Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted to feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.