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- n software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space
- But the company is having trouble developing a product that can compete with Lotus Notes, which dominates the market for "groupware" (the software that helps people brainstorm over .
- Lotus commands fully 65% of all sales of groupware, which total about $500 million at present and are expected to balloon to $5 billion a year by the end of the decade.
- Its star asset: the popular Lotus Notes groupware program, which allows far-flung users to work simultaneously on the same document.