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Desktops of the Future and How to Get Started Today

An IBM Point of View

For the last 15 years, most office desktop software has been purchased in a “suite,” a set of office productivity applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation designed to offer extra value, beyond their purchase price. Other products may include an email client, a browser, a low-end data base product, a forms designer, a forms fill-in product, various publishing aids (templates for both the printed page and the web), collaboration and communication and business contact management.

This IBM-sponsored point of view paper authored by Wohl Associates offers insight into exciting new options for business leaders and CIOs to rethink traditional upgrade paths where 'one size fit all' and to explore new ways of lowering their total cost of ownership (TCO) while increasing organizational flexibility.