Comparing Domino to some analysts over the years
Tags :Domino 7
I was thinking about some end of the year
summaries and this just fell together in my lap (errrr mind that
is). Here is abstracts over time (stopping the past few years since
it is so fresh in our minds) and then some thoughts of mine on each point.
- From CIO Magazine Mar 1 1996:
Examining Notes, the de facto groupware standard from IBM subsidiary Lotus Development Corp., doesn't help either. It's e-mail, it's discussion databases, it's an application development environment, it's a place where different folks can work on the same document at the same time. In fact, even Lotus has had a tough time defining groupware.
One would wonder what genre to place a product that envelops so much with the Extended Product Family now. Are we really using groupware? How many of you work in a group? How many make a group? These were all thoughts 10 years ago. Everyone remember Workflow? Email was taking over the enterprises in leaps and bounds. Applications were taking a mind of their own and many mail systems were just starting to understand there is standards in the universe and to re-engineer their MTA's and gateways to talk nicely to each other.
- From CIO Magazine in Feb 15 1998:
...future mind-share reports are showing a near dead heat for Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange. IBM needs to add the GroupWise installed base to its Notes/Domino share to thwart Microsoft's efforts to own a company's "digital nervous system."
Need we even go here. Future predictions showed a dead heat? Once again falling into the idea that just doing email compares to everything else that can do email. Just because it has 4 wheels doesn't make them comparable now does it? Rollerskate, please meet Ferrari. No one ever saw a hint of tossing GroupWise into any mix with Domino outside of using their directory for LDAP.
- From CIO Magazine Mar 1 1999:
Real-time is real important to CIOs. If Lotus Notes and Domino featuring Ubique technology are half as popular in corporate America as they are in my home, a new era of collaboration is imminent.
Do we even have to go here? Lotus did not even embrace Ubique technology, it has taken chat and presence to new heights to Lotus Notes 7 and offered the chat service as a commodity and requirement now. I think corporate America got the picture, brought to you by IBM Lotus.
- From CIO Magazine Sep 15 2003:
Microsoft Exchange and IBM Domino/Notes dominate the corporate e-mail world. Together, the packages own nearly 90 percent of the Global 2000 e-mail market, and that dominance will continue through 2007.
With the rest of the corporate world already sewn up by IBM and Microsoft, vendors are looking for growth where they can get it.
That is right, use the words sewn up. Hannover leaps us into 2007 with activity-centric collaboration (I am still fuzzy personally on this whole idea and workers grasp). Domino will continue to dominate without effort. Let's hope for another ten years of double digit growth.
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On Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 by Chris Miller
