BW Online | May 10, 2004 | A Big Blue Gauntlet for Microsoft: "IBM's new Workplace just might succeed where so many earlier attempts have failed: Getting complex software off the desktop.

A confluence of factors could conspire to make Workplace the first legitimate mass-market competitor to Microsoft's Office software suite. That, in turn, could have far ranging consequences. It might open up a wave of competition to the core Windows operating system itself. Should either of these possibilities transpire, the Colossus of Redmond could find itself having to cut prices and slash margins to compete."