LXer: Microsoft's After The Lotus Notes Crowd
 

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The Redmond, Wash., company today introduced more free software tools to make it easier for customers of IBM's Lotus collaboration software to move to and work with Microsoft's competing SharePoint Services 3.0 suite. Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Notes, role-based templates for SharePoint My Sites and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 application templates, come as IBM kicks off Lotusphere 2007 in Orlando, Fla. The software tools are Microsoft's latest shot across Big Blue's bows in what has become a spirited, protracted competition for signing up the most corporate users to use their collaboration services, which include e-mail, instant messaging, calendaring and Web conferencing.

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