<p>news Google's popular Apps collaboration suite has knocked IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell's GroupWise platforms off their perch to become the second most popular office suite in Australian enterprises behind Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, analyst firm Telsyte revealed this week.</p><p>In the past, the market for collaboration suites was divided between three major players Microsoft, IBM and Novell, with the trio battling it out for market share in major and minor Australian organisations throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Over time, however, Microsoft's Outlook/Exchange ecosystem has become the dominant player, with the two suites from IBM and Novell falling away.Yesterday, Telsyte revealed how far the pair have fallen, with new research from the analyst firm placing Google Apps which only launched in 2006 ahead of Lotus and Groupwise in terms of Australian market penetration.</p><p>According to a statement released by the company, it conducted a survey of more than 330 local chief information officers and senior IT decision-markers on their enterprise software use and intentions. While it found that many CIOs were still hesitant to move on-premise applications into the software as a service model which Google Apps uses, it also found that the application which CIOs most wanted to move to the cloud was email and groupware.</p><p>"The search engine giant's Apps suite is now second only to Microsoft's Exchange for enterprise market penetration in Australia and is ahead of more established products like Novell's GroupWise and IBM's Lotus Notes," the company said.</p><p><a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2012/09/11/google-apps-defeats-lotus-groupwise-in-australia/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.cio.com.au/article/436014/google_apps_growing_popularity_among_cios_telsyte/">Google Apps growing in popularity among CIOs: Telsyte</a> (CIO Magazine)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dZEioeE6atQM3KMtQhXXEWNpuQBvM">2 additional articles.</a></p>