Stop the blog (hold the presses): Ray Ozzie states that Lotus Notes was designed for an earlier era..and more
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GCN: Microsoft sounds like it is doing everything it can to lure all remaining Lotus Notes users to Exchange. How does that make you feel?
Ozzie: Although I've got very warm feelings for the product, the team that built it, the partners who built business around it, and the customers invested in it, Notes was designed at its core for an earlier era. Today there is a far greater set of choices, and in some cases, a far more appropriate set of choices.
Notes was designed for the world of the early '90's - a "re-engineering the corporation" era where the mandate was to utilize technology to share information across departments within an enterprise or government organization.
This comes from an article you can find right here that came out on Apr 24 2006. He was asked later in the article about choosing between Lotus and Exchange and was honest enough to say that it would not be easy or sometimes feasible to migrate applications to Exchange. So why the change, well the article was to be on Groove in more ways than not. But the interviewer took the Lotus approach right out of the starting blocks to stir some controversy. There you go, consider it stirred.
There is always choices in everything you do. I honestly don't find that Lotus is the right answer, but I haven't found Microsoft to be the one either in those. How could Groove benefit from integration with Sharepoint? Not sure, but he states it. Synchronizing seamlessly? I think Lotus does that, quite well with compression, encryption and grabbing smaller documents first so you can start acting and working right away. Need to get a doc to everyone? Upload it once and send a doclink, don't pass the whole do around everywhere. Sounds like a terrible waste of bandwidth and time. Need the data via the web, no need for alternate server. Need secure email, no need for alternate server, HTTP, IMAP or native NRPC. Need a swift kick in the ass for having to deploy 64-bit architecture on Windows only?
Oops that is tomorrows posting I have queued up.
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On Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 by Chris Miller
