IBM Takes on Gmail with Web-based Corporate Email Service

By Geoff Duncan
October 02, 2009

Web mail has been around almost forever, and Google's Gmail is over five years old: now IBM hopes to woo business customers an affordable Web-based email service.

The idea of putting email management in a Web browser dates back—well, let's just say if that if the concept were a child, it would be hitting puberty. However, the concept was mostly aimed at consumers and Internet end-users until Google decided to pitch its Gmail services to businesses as part of its Google Apps package. Now, technology giant IBM thinks Google might be on to something: International Business Machines is launching LotusLive iNotes, a new Web-based email services specifically targeting corporate email users. And IBM plans to charge just $3 a month ($36/year) for LotusLive iNotes, less than Google charges corporate clients for Gmail services.

LotusLive iNotes won't have as many features as Gmail—and certainly won't have ...

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