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Is IBM/Lotus obsessed with Work??

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I was chatting to an IBM earlier about the whole Workplace confusion thing and it suddenly came to me, throughout history IBM seems to have a lot of focus on using the word "Work" in names, the following were ones that quickly jumpted to mind, I bet I have missed a few more though, feel free to expand the list...

IBM Workpad
OS/2 Workplace
eSuite Workplace
Lotus Works
1-2-3 Worksheet
Notes Workspace
Team Workplace
Workplace Collaboration Services
Workpalce Services Express
Work the Web
Working together
Lotus Workflow
DeveloperWorks
Workspace on Demand
IBM MTST Work Processor
IBM Workstation
IBM Work Management
IBM Software Developers Work Bench

Posted by Carl Tyler On 03/03/2006 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - Don't forget:
Domino Global Workbench

Posted by Johan At 12:41:54 PM On 03/03/2006 | - Website - |

2 - And
workplace designer
workplace managed client
workplace ...*

Posted by Justin Freeman At 03:19:21 PM On 03/03/2006 | - Website - |

3 - Or how about the CarlGetToWork one

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 06:32:07 PM On 03/05/2006 | - Website - |

4 - They are definitly not in the gaming business.
Or would your office manager buy
IBM Managed GamedPlace client?

Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 02:50:33 AM On 03/06/2006 | - Website - |

5 - I remember the times of beta testing of IBM Workgroup

Posted by Marco Foellmer At 02:36:45 PM On 11/22/2006 | - Website - |

6 - IBM's Inmense Bureaucratic Machine also likes to shuffle names, so once you know that IBM's web server is named
IBM Internet Connection Server
as soon as its mind share increases, they change the name to:
Lotus Go web server. Not to be confused with its succesor... Domino Go Web server....
but then they switch to Apache with tweaks, which they name:
IBM http web server - powered by Apache
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