Thoughts on "10 ways SharePoint 2010 will impact your Lotus Notes migration"
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I received a link from a customer to this ComputerWorld article with the title 10 ways SharePoint 2010 will impact your Lotus Notes migration. The first thing the article does is make a very bold statement:
Over the past five years, many organizations have abandoned their legacy Lotus Notes/Domino environments
What constitutes legacy? An application that drives their entire business? An application that is a workflow built over many years to save huge amounts of costs for the enterprise?
So why didn't the companies move these applications?
Their concerns range from the cost of rebuilding applications on SharePoint to uncertainty about whether SharePoint has the capabilities needed
I beleive they catch the main reason right away. The article goes on to to start the list of how it is easier, or should be. Even though they list limitations right away.
1. Scalability: It’s not unusual for Notes databases in large enterprises to contain tens of thousands of documents. Organizations attempting to move this content to SharePoint 2007 ran into some severe size limitations on SharePoint lists and libraries. With SharePoint 2010, however, the recommended maximums for many criteria have more than doubled
So right away they admit even with Sharepoint 2010 there is still limitations in large databases. They even note this about keyword fields into the managed metadata store. The scaling and ease of migration is not there.
Office integration, their point #3, is a non-issue. I think John Head has been preaching this for years in his integration sessions. This already exists inside the Notes and Domino world
4. Offline Capabilities: Although many of us count on continuous internet connectivity and bandwidth, many legacy Notes applications depend on the ability to “go offline.” Notes is famous for its ability to replicate to your laptop whatever data you need to continue working while unplugged.
They admit Notes is famous for offline capability so Sharepoint tries to cover this with Workspaces. They taught that it is based on Groove (no defunct in the grand sense) and the same developers that built it for Notes. Maybe some, but the movement and capabilities have far outgrown what ehy know and can do.
Sharepoint Online makes it presence known in post #5. Domino has has hosted offerings for a long time from such partners as Connectria, and now LotusLive. Nothing new here exept competition they had to offer. Move along.
The rest of the points were design capabilities which Notes has been ruling for years in the RAD world. Point 9 even tries to promote workflow. Are they serious? Workflow comparisons? Lotus Notes stomps all over workflow.
So it all made sense at the end being written by a Sharepoint migration partner/specialist. that also runs a blog on the topic.
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On Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 by Chris Miller
