Clearing more air on Lotus Foundations
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While traveling, a saw Ed posted a Lotus Foundations blog entry that got some good comments and linked to some new Foundations blog sites. As part of one of the first resellers, I addressed many of the issues that are being brought up in the comments on Ed's blog. While I brought some of these items up before in anotehr blog posting, here is more of my impressions:
- Lotus Foundations is currently being marketed in the wrong place. Hands down. The only people that really know about it are Lotus shops that are already biased on how the Domino architecture works. We have sold a few of these now and not a single non-Domino shop have heard of Nitix, much rather Foundations.
- The thought of being able to migrate a domain in or utilizing Foundations as an extension point should have been done before the release. There is no reason this isn't built in to help push sales of this for remote workers and offices
- The restrictions of how the Org name is built defeats the way Domino works, from the first Foundations install, in terms of multiple servers. Since it uses DNS, it creates O's of the same name for each server. So no calendaring lookups nor native NRPC routing becomes available.
- The server and cert id are on the file system but are keyed to the Nitix environment. You can't easily replace them without breaking the automation of the server.
- Pushing hard for extended Lotus products, like Sametime is a key selling point that is needed sooner.
I could go on some more, but I think the push needs to be expanded outside of the Lotus partner realm. Most of you deal with Lotus customers and not in the competitive landscape of the SMB world against things like Google Apps. So introducing this without any previous visibility to the SMB customer is an immediate hamper.
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On Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by Chris Miller
