Lotus wins over Microsoft, again and again
Suzanne O Minassian July 31 2008 08:15:00 AM
You would think I was still talking about the shootout at E2.0 last month, but I'm not. I'm talking about the newest press release that highlights how big huge companies as well as small ones are turning to Lotus products and rejecting the Microsoft-way. "The Lotus software business outgrew Microsoft by winning millions of customer seats worldwide in direct competition with Microsoft."
There were tons of customers mentioned in the article as either directly choosing Lotus over Microsoft or making investments in Lotus products recently:
- A major Asian bank licensing 300,000 Lotus Notes seats as well as Lotus Symphony
- A huge accounting/consulting firms purchased more than 150,000 seats of the entire Lotus portfolio, selecting Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Quickr and WebSphere Portal over Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, among other products
- Several leading banks in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as the Australian government
- Affin Bank and Trakando in Singapore
- Anglican Church of Australia, who says by using Symphony they will save an estimated AU$150,000 a year
- Aviva in India
- CED
- CFE Compagnie d'Enterprises of France
- Chemical manufacturer Ineos of Belgium
- Colgate-Palmolive
- DL Cosco Shipyard in China
- Dutch Railways
- GD Development Bank
- HKG Environ Protect
- Hyatt Hotels
- Imerys (see how they use Connections here)
- Johnson Electric
- Kentucky Baptist Convention
- Max New York Life
- Nationwide Insurance
- New York Life
- NutraFlo
- Publishers Printing
- Recent Lotus investments also include
- Reliance Industries
- Rohm Haas
- Russian Railways
- Standard Insurance
- The Salvation Army
- The U.S. General Services Administration
- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service
- U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
- Union Pacific
- Vedanta
- Verizon
- Virginia Commonweath University
- Winsol International
So why are they investing in Lotus over Microsoft?
- Migrating to new versions of Microsoft Exchange is expensive and difficult
- They are concerned about Vista and the high cost of upgrading replacing more strategic IT investments
- They view Lotus as a more innovative, open portfolio that gives their business freedom of choice, lower IT costs, and more insightful employee tools.
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