Reading: Lesson’s From GSA’s Lotus Notes hiccup
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In a recent blog posting on IdoNotes I wrote my opinions about the thousands of Lotus Notes applications clouding the GSA Lotus Notes migration. A new article on GCN by John Breeden II really missed the point of what is going on:
GSA’s problem specifically is with Lotus Notes, which lets users create applications for their own ends. In that sense, Notes was an excellent tool for the distributed computing environment. If users needed to process payroll information every week, they could create a Notes application to help. It needed only to work on a local machine or a few local computers, and life was good.
The GSA is not moving a bunch of desktop created applications to the cloud. They more than likely did not even support that model. They are moving tons of workflow, document repository and critical databases to the cloud and finding out that the model there does not meet all the needs as promised. Then it is taking longer to write new applications at a higher cost than proposed. John Breeden II even backs this argument in his own article:
I guess finding out that thousands of Notes applications no longer work can be an expensive revelation.
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On Monday, October 22nd, 2012 by Chris Miller
