An in-depth look at LotusLive Symphony and how our strategy shapes up compared to Google...
[The] office suite is a critical piece for the very success of their Social Business vision. I would say the success of LotusLive Symphony is tied to how well they execute their Social Business strategy. It is also very important that Google takes note of IBM's foray into this space and reposition themselves to meet the competition. I know that many pundits write off IBM in today's world. I was also an IBM skeptic but my interactions with many IBM-ers during Lotusphere convinced me that they have their vision right and what is needed right now is proper execution. I did this analysis with the expectation that they will follow up on their execution this time. Let us wait and see.
Link: CloudAve: IBM LotusLive Symphony: Google Needs To Watch Out >
Pretty good, that bit about integrating Symphony live with desktop Symphony would be very interesting to see in action. Hopefully it will come to fruition sooner than later.
Of course Ed... it's only good if y'all tell folks about it! Otherwise it's just another killer product that no one "new" knows about.