I bought the December issue of Wired magazine because it had a feature on Ray Ozzie, the inventor of Lotus Notes and Groove. Lotus Notes is an interesting technology that is one of the best enterprise collaboration tools available today. It seems that the major global “knowledge enterprises” pick Lotus Notes as their collaboration infrastructure. Some of the Big Four (PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and E&Y) use Lotus Notes. And a market leader in the management consulting industry: McKinsey & Co uses Lotus Notes.
Ray Ozzie, as the new Chief Software Architect, envisions Microsoft leveraging it’s market power in the new “Cloud Computing” market. And they plan to do this with a 4-prong strategy. After the break, we look at these 4 strategies and talk about how the open source world is going to respond.