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Please join in the conversation on LinkedIn -What is the Future of Lotus Notes (some ex-Loti are answering)

I was sent this link today by a former Loti which made it all the more fun.  It was interesting to scroll down towards the now bottom and see Jim Bernardo, former Lotus Warroom Manager I worked with quite a few times, himself doing some slamming of Lotus in there.  Well then he is at Microsoft the past 7 years in various forms of product management and technical evangelist.

Here are some excerpts and random answers to get you moving over there to post your thoughts:

My impression is that companies are slowly but definitely leaving Lotus Notes. (I think Gartner said more or less the same in one of their reports).

The main problem with Notes (and I'm talking e-mail here) is that it is an incredibly ugly and counterintuitive client on top of an excellent, scalable, enterprise-grade server that runs on just about any OS.

I spent 10 years at Lotus, pre- and post-IBM...the vast majority of the people who had the gray matter around Lotus Notes...the people who built that product...left. They left not because they didn't want to work at IBM, but because IBM didn't want to continue Notes. All the hype notwithstanding, Notes 8 is not your grandfather's Notes, and moreover, is not becoming more "open". It's an Eclipse plug-in that runs atop Lotus Expeditor, the technology formerly known as the IBM Workplace Managed Client. That's either good or bad, depending on your perspective, but it's done absolutely nothing to make Notes more "open". Look where IBM spends their money...is the Notes PKI the default PKI for WebSphere and the rest of the IBM Software platform? Is the NSF the new database for IBM software? Or have they even tried to model the NSF in DB2? Is the Domino Directory IBM's strategic directory product?

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On Friday, August 10th, 2007   by Chris Miller        

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