IBM's Workplace initiative is the company's plan to garner a larger share of the money spent by businesses on end-user productivity software--a market dominated by Microsoft's Office suite.

The Workplace software, which is being developed through IBM's Lotus division, is built around the company's Java-based WebSphere Portal software, which delivers applications and documents from servers to desktop PCs or handheld devices running Windows or Linux. The Workplace software can present information in a Web browser or so-called rich-client software, which has full graphical capabilities and can be used offline.

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