The Associated Press reported today that IBM is officially planning a version of Lotus notes for iPhone, as well as a "Microsoft Office-like software, known as Lotus Symphony". A formal announcement is expected next week at an IBM conference in Orlando, Florida.
This would be another big bump for iPhone in the enterprise, and specifically in competition with Blackberry, as IBM claims 130 million users worldwide.
There is definately a race to get to enterprise customers who, usually against the advice of their IT folks, are anxious to use iPhone as their device. Several techniques for connecting to corporate exchange servers we’ve reviewed will be coming to fruition this year.. and it will be interesting to see how, and how quickly, corporate "Power Users" embrace the iPhone.
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