Connectria re-announces Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging (for over 9 years strong)
Tags :Domino Hosting
I light of the recent IBM announcement that Ed pointed to (then later pulled for a couple days as a premature linkation), IBM is attempting to enter a market that Connectria and other Lotus partners have been excelling in and building infrastructure around for years now. There are some large gaps in cost, scalability and performance that IBM will need to address to make this function.
Since there is no viable ASP mode for Lotus Notes clients, it is presumed that IBM will have to offer you a dedicated Domino server on VM, partition or dedicated machine or make it web access only to be a true SaaS offering. With the entry level of 1,000 users (yes for now as Ed said) at $8 USD/month, you end up spending almost $100,000 USD in a year for a hosted Domino server with only 1GB of mail per user (currently stated) and a little bit of Quickr. It also appears that this is a messaging only license, so we need to see what else it brings to the table.
My point, without disclosing too much of what we have learned in trying to be a true SaaS model with Lotus Notes clients, you can find a partner that has been handling SMB (which means down into the 10's of users, not thousand) and up to infinity at a cheaper cost with more true experience in this market space. Just a thought.
Oh yeah, and you can even add on just about any other Lotus or non-Lotus product you want.
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On Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 by Chris Miller
