IBM to Launch LotusLive iNotes Monday, Challenges Google

IBM is taking on Google in the cloud-computing based hosted business email service with LotusLive iNotes, which will be offered beginning Monday. Software as a service is a popular option for companies that want to rent, instead of buy, software and Google has been a big player in that area.

IBM, based in New York State, is playing up its reputation as a business technology veteran and launching iNotes with "aggressive" pricing of three dollars per employee per month. Google charges businesses slightly more than four dollars per user per month for an email service with far more memory capacity than iNotes and added features like word processing and video.

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