• “By 2009, Microsoft’s collaborative vision will achieve significant, if not overwhelming, enterprise adoption (0.9 probability). The viability of Microsoft in the integrated collaboration market is not really in question.”
• “Given Microsoft’s dominance and ambitious plans for Windows and Office System, it will almost certainly continue to dominate. Whether IBM is a distant second or a realistic challenger depends on how it executes its basically sound strategy. Based on current performance, we believe IBM is more likely to be a distant second.”
• “IBM has the more difficult job ahead of it, because Microsoft has taken an early lead in building support for its vision of integrated collaboration.”

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