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IBM is a Leader in the collaboration platforms market, with its Lotus Notes/Domino platform and related products (QuickPlace and Sametime) and the emerging IBM Workplace Collaboration Services offering. IBM has a very strong vision and product road map and is the overall market presence Leader. IBM offers strong messaging, real-time collaboration, and team collaboration platforms, and solid security and Information Workplace readiness. But IBM is weaker than some of its competitors in architecture and administration. IBM's strengths make it a good fit for organizations that have a strategic orientation toward Java and other open standards, are developing an Information Workplace (IW) strategy, need a full collaboration platform and don't mind a lack of unification among collaboration modules, place a premium on vendor viability, and have open source leanings — especially toward Linux.

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