<p>Traditional hosted email has been a two horse race between International Business Machines' (NYSE:IBM) Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook hosted on Exchange. For organizations with 500 email seats and above, the latter had a mammoth market share of close to 75% as of 2011 while Lotus notes had less than 10%, according to Microsoft. The market shares were comparable in smaller sized organizations and all of this changed with the entry of Google's Gmail hosted on the cloud. It was easier and cheaper for smaller organizations to implement Gmail and the market quickly went for the enterprise version of the successful email service. Google also quickly acquired market share because of its collaboration tools and a web-based Office-like suite with Google Docs. Microsoft was quick to adapt to the changing trend and introduced Microsoft Office 365, and the market is now again a two-horse race with Google and Microsoft contending for the top spot.</p><p>IBM is however gearing up to launch its own web-based documentation suite with IBM Docs as part of its Smart Cloud initiative. The service is currently available in the beta phase.</p><p>See our full analysis on IBM</p><p>Will IBM Docs Help Its Lotus Notes Business?</p><p><a href="http://www.trefis.com/stock/ibm/articles/155888/can-ibm-docs-make-a-dent-in-the-corporate-cloud-email-space/2012-12-03">Keep reading...</a></p>