InformationWeek

January 26, 1998

IBM Suites Challenge BackOffice

Client interface is new; Domino gets better browser support, more scalability

BM will preview this week at Lotusphere 98 three integrated server suites designed to challenge Microsoft's BackOffice on the Windows NT platform.

Each suite is aimed at a separate market segment: large enterprises, departments, and small businesses. The suites will be made up of familiar IBM servers that will all be available through one installation. The servers include Lotus Domino, IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM eNetwork Communications Server, Tivoli Management Servers, and IBM Backup Server. The suite for enterprises will include IBM Transaction Series and MQSeries message-oriented middleware. The suite for small businesses will come with the Domino Intranet Starter Pack.

IBM will ship the suites for Windows NT this quarter. Versions for other platforms are likely to follow later this year. Pricing has not been announced.

Jocelyne Attal, VP of worldwide Netfinity sales at IBM, says the suites are not a rehash of IBM's Software Servers, the company's attempt two years ago to market integrated server suites. But she says some of the integration work for those suites will be included in the new suites.

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