Lotus is obsolete technology? According to this former MS person (now offering migration of course) it is..
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This article popped up today, from some ePrairie thingy that covers technology and interviews. The interviewer is some international technology expert named Michael Muth who interviewed Christos Fotiadis (former Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft Partner), founder and CEO of ProntoGroup in Chicago.
Here is where he goes awry talking about compliance and standards... bolds are mine
In part one of a three-part Q&A, Fotiadis sat down with international expert Michael Muth to discuss how the realm of technology compliance has changed over the years and how to deal with obsolete technology.
MM: Why has Lotus Notes been impossible to migrate with tools alone and too expensive to accomplish with services alone?
CF: There's a lot to do in a Lotus migration. Notes is one product that does a lot of different things (e-mail, workflow, data collection, etc.). Though it was a great product back when, the realization is that it should be retired.
It's impossible to create a tool that can migrate all aspects of Notes to a competing platform. You will have a mix of services. When you compare what you can do with Notes to what you can have with new technology, things on the other side look a lot more attractive.
MM commentary: Like many golden oldies, Notes was great in its day but isn't today.
So let me get this right.. a person that performs migrations talking about his migrations saying Notes is dead but then right in the middle of the interview states it is impossible to compete with Notes! I must have fell and hit my head. Notes is dead while it does workflow, e-mail and a billion other parts and we can't migrate from it to any single package. So let's go ahead and hire me to do it. Sheesh
Email Mike and let's let him know what a nice marketing piece this was, and tell him to update his website too :-)
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On Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 by Chris Miller
