Ken Bisconti Quotes (8 Quotes)

Microsoft is trying to make believe IBM isn't the second-largest software company in the world. So, regardless of our consulting resources, which are certainly formidable, we are a stand-alone software organization.

Businesses are beginning to demand systems using converged audio and PC-based collaboration tools. Our collaboration with Siemens and others enables firms to seamlessly transition between email, message, web conferencing and phone conversations, without having to replace their existing IT infrastructures.

IBM recognizes that our customers need more than just email for their collaboration needs -- as a result, IBM has evolved Lotus Notes and Domino forward as an extensive platform built to meet the business objectives of a wide variety of corporate communities, including end-users, IT administrators, application developers and the CFOs office, ... Today, tens of thousands of customers are relying on Lotus Notes and Domino to help drive their overall business, so weve built Lotus Notes and Domino 7 with capabilities that can increase productivity from the organizational level down to individual knowledge workers.

Web-centric computing is less expensive compared to Office and Vista because we can provision new components, and using applications from the server based on an individual's role in an organization reduces the cost of deploying apps.

There's a huge shift under way in today's market, ... Customers are recognizing that collaboration technology and people's productivity can substantially provide business value and really help the bottom line. Customers are looking for more than just e-mail from their collaboration platform.

Lotus Notes has 40,000 active customers across the world, and any idea that Notes is dead is a dead idea.

The current plan is to end support in January 2002,

There's a growing realization that the Mac community is growing. It's a significant enough population...even if it's 5 percent to 10 percent of the total corporate deployment, that it makes it a requisite community to communicate with the rest of the organization.