An IBM official told Forbes that the company not only wants to reach out to the small-but-growing number of iPhone users in the enterprise, but also use the new applications as a starting point from which to build App Store software for the forthcoming iPad.
"Our customers are looking at the iPad and they’re excited about it," said Alstair Rennie, IBM’s manager of Lotus software. "No one quite knows its use patterns yet, but it’s our intention to deliver as much of our portfolio as possible on it as fast as possible."
Good news if you’re a Lotus Notes user, through your work or just for fun (???), and a soon-to-be iPad owner. IBM is planning to release Lotus corporate collaboration software ‘sometime near the debut of the hardware’.
{ 2 comments }
