What is the future of Lotus Notes ? Will it compete with other technologies ?Quelle: Mat Newman
There's a healthy discussion going on over on Linkedin regarding the
future of Lotus Notes. A lot of the discussion revolves around email,
which is a misguided and poor perception of the platform. I enclose my
comment here because I wanted to share my thoughts with a wider
audience:
"It's simple. If you have apps that are "Modern"
(ie: Functional and NOT Ugly!), if you are on a version of Notes that
is even partially current (less than 2 years old) you have a social
platform, if your IT manager is NOT a Microsoft biggot who is not
prepared to look at anything other than MS solutions, there is
DEFINITELY room for Notes in your organisation. Today I demonstrated a
stellar MODERN Lotus Notes implementation to a start-up that had already
implemented Exchange and Sharepoint. They are dumping it (within 6
months of purchase and implementation) for Lotus Notes. Lotus
Notes/Domino IS the superior technology. Given the right environment it
will thrive, and your users love it. Put it in the "Email" category and
restrict it's social capabilities and your IT managers will kill it in
favour of other technology and your users not understand how powerful it
is. Like I said ... It's that Simple. "
Honestly,
if it has to "compete", at least compare apples with apples, which
means, Microsoft Active Directory + Microsoft Internet Information
Server + Microsoft SQL Server + Microsoft Sharepoint Server + Microsoft
Echange Server + Microsoft Project Server + Microsoft Lync Server +
Microsoft Outlook + Microsoft One-Note + ... + ... + ... vs
Notes/Domino. Hmmmm. TCO anyone?
Final note: If you look at
Lotus Notes as "just" email, then the future of Notes is already sealed
and other "Email" technologies will always be under consideration. Look
at Lotus Notes/Domino as the powerful, integrated, replicated,
available-anywhere with 99.99999999999% up-time platform that it IS, and
it's future will never come into question. Visualise, Virtualise or
Vaporise, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino is THE best platform for on-prem,
hybrid or pure-cloud.
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