This fight is over. Notes had it's time in the sun, but that ship has sailed.The only ones who seem to really prefer Notes these days are the Notes admins.
While true, it just doesn't matter anymore. IBM tripped on the path to dominance and Exchange slammed it.The majority of Exchange seats won't be lost to Notes - they'll be lost to Google Apps or some other hosted solution.
Microsoft can't possibly compete with IBM/Lotus unless they plan to release a GNU/Linux client. OK That might just be wishful thinking on my part. Seriously though- Like most MS software Sharepoint is cr*p. As much as people hate Lotus Notes (the older versions were even worse than current) it is allot better since the rewrite, and it shows IBM is thinking of the future. This can't be said for Microsoft. The major rewrite that I speak is the one that provided cross-platform compatibility. It is an essential stepping stone that Microsoft hasn't realized. Maybe it is too early to discuss the downfall of MS Windows, but if you haven't noticed the market share of both Apple's Mac OS X and GNU/Linux on the desktop has increased significantly in the past several months. Most typical users purchasing computers today have read about how bad Vista is and know that they don't want it. Not everybody is switching operating systems-but significant numbers are.
Our organization recently switched from Notes/Domino to Outlook/Exchange. Most of our users love Outlook because it looks pretty, then they try to schedule a meeting or view someone else's calendar like they used to do in Notes and they realize how "bolted on" all of the calendaring & scheduling features of Outlook feel. It's terrible. IBM/Lotus = relatively ugly client with a very robust and feature-rich backend. MS = pretty client with shaky and bloated backend. IBM having the absolute WORST understanding of client needs and equally terrible marketing doesn't help.
raremageAug 4, 2008
This fight is over. Notes had it's time in the sun, but that ship has sailed.The only ones who seem to really prefer Notes these days are the Notes admins.
raremageAug 4, 2008
While true, it just doesn't matter anymore. IBM tripped on the path to dominance and Exchange slammed it.The majority of Exchange seats won't be lost to Notes - they'll be lost to Google Apps or some other hosted solution.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2008
To hell with all that, companies should just use GMail
bootupAug 5, 2008
Microsoft can't possibly compete with IBM/Lotus unless they plan to release a GNU/Linux client. OK That might just be wishful thinking on my part. Seriously though- Like most MS software Sharepoint is cr*p. As much as people hate Lotus Notes (the older versions were even worse than current) it is allot better since the rewrite, and it shows IBM is thinking of the future. This can't be said for Microsoft. The major rewrite that I speak is the one that provided cross-platform compatibility. It is an essential stepping stone that Microsoft hasn't realized. Maybe it is too early to discuss the downfall of MS Windows, but if you haven't noticed the market share of both Apple's Mac OS X and GNU/Linux on the desktop has increased significantly in the past several months. Most typical users purchasing computers today have read about how bad Vista is and know that they don't want it. Not everybody is switching operating systems-but significant numbers are.
mrbigmattAug 5, 2008
Our organization recently switched from Notes/Domino to Outlook/Exchange. Most of our users love Outlook because it looks pretty, then they try to schedule a meeting or view someone else's calendar like they used to do in Notes and they realize how "bolted on" all of the calendaring & scheduling features of Outlook feel. It's terrible. IBM/Lotus = relatively ugly client with a very robust and feature-rich backend. MS = pretty client with shaky and bloated backend. IBM having the absolute WORST understanding of client needs and equally terrible marketing doesn't help.