Lotus cuts prices for Notes software, making pre-emptive strike on Microsoft

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Lotus is lowering prices on its Notes workgroup software in an effort to increase market share before rival Microsoft has an opportunity to release its own workgroup package. The announcement includes a new desktop version without development tools, priced at $155. Lotus is also cutting per-copy prices from $330 to $275 when 50 or more copiers are purchased. Lotus has also formed distribution agreements with IBM and Apple that allows IBM to include Notes with its OS 2 operating system and allows Apple to include the software with a number of its PowerBook notebook models and Power Macintosh desktop systems. Microsoft is planning to release a software package called Exchange that will compete head-on with Notes. Reportedly, though, the product's release has been delayed and its feature-set has been reduced. reduced. Lotus CEO Jim P. Manzi say that there could be 20 million Notes users in three years if use of the product continues at its current growth rate.

Software Publishers, Communications Software NEC, Computer software industry, Software industry, Prices and rates, Telecommunications software, Lotus Development Corp., Work group computing, Workgroup computing, LOTS, Price cutting, Competition, Lotus Notes (Workgroup software)

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Publishers deliver reams of data on CDs

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Publishers are regularly sending out masses of information on CD-ROM to subscribers. For example, MicroPatent Inc sends out the monthly abstracts of European and US patents for $1,200 per year. Aries Systems Corp charges $695 per year for its PathLine disk of medical articles. Readers can rapidly search the 680Mbytes of data on a CD-ROM by using indexes and key words. Companies are also publishing product information and repair manuals on CD-ROM. Information companies are converting online data and text to CD-ROM and government agencies are publishing regulations on CD-ROM. Many suppliers, such as Counterpoint Publishing Inc, Law Office Information Systems and Eagle Eye Publishers Inc, are repackaging publicly available data on CD-ROM. Ziff Communications Corp ships a monthly CD-ROM of technical notes and manuals for 50 different software packages; a subscription costs $1,295 per year.

Usage, Database industry, Marketing, Column, Databases, CD-ROM, CD-ROM disks, Database, New Product

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