Last week TechCrunch broke the story of the launch of our new suite of hosted Lotus Applications.

…The suite seems to be pretty cost-effective for SMBs. Lotus Notes is priced at $12.99 per user per month. Lotus Quickr is $12.99 per user per month. Lotus Connections costs $2.99 per user per month. All three products include Lotus Sametime. Phase 2 offers volume pricing when a company has over 1,000 users, or if people decide to bundle two or more products. They say they don’t have a pre-defined price if someone were to subscribe to the entire suite yet, but there would be a significant discount.

Phase 2 is the first IBM technology partner to offer Lotus Notes, Connections, Quickr, and SameTime as a “true SaaS” solution. Meaning that you subscribe to your software and aren’t required to buy it.

We’ll be blogging about these new products in the coming weeks to show you what they’re capable of, and how they can be intergated together.