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

IBM News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by IBM Complimentary Trial: IBM Software Development Tools Click here to download complimentary trials of nearly 20 IBM Rational V7 desktop products, offering new capabilities for empowering global teams to speed SOA results. Rational tools help you support the most effective software development for your enterprise and address common software development problems. Network World's IBM News Alert, 06/21/07 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. The IDC Enterprise Panel: Join IDC's panel of IT influencers and decision-makers. Your contributions will be compiled and distributed to technology and telecommunications vendors all over the world. As a thank you for joining, you will receive select free IDC research, and discounted IDC conference passes. Click here to learn more 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.

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