IBM said at Macworld that IBM’s Lotus Connections social networking suite, Lotus Sametime instant messaging and Lotus Quickr team collaboration suite will be available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and computers running Apple’s Mac operating system. IBM also made a vague commitment to build Lotus apps for the iPad. That IBM, which enjoys most of its success selling software for Microsoft Windows computers and even Linux machines, would increasingly support Apple platforms should no longer be a surprise. Businesses are acknowledging that employees are more comfortable using Macs instead of PCs because that is the machine they grew up using at home or in school.
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IBM pledged to let its social networking software, instant
messaging and other Lotus applications run on Apple’s iPhone and forthcoming
iPad tablet computer, an IBM executive said at Macworld
in San Francisco Feb. 11.
IBM Lotus General Manager Alistair Rennie
said that IBM’s Lotus…