A press release I somehow missed this week

August 2 2008

From the Factotum weblog, "Migrating to Comm Suite: Gives Us Your Poor Notes, Your Tired Domino Users...":

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Global System Services Corporation (GSS) today announced the GSS Migration Toolkit for Sun Java Communications Suite to move customers from IBM Lotus Notes and Domino to the Sun Java Communications Suite.  ...

Sun Java Communications Suite is two orders of magnitude more scalable than other products and is the first major messaging and collaboration platform to include a Web 2.0 client. Communications Suite and Java Enterprise system are the premier Web 2.0 and J2EE application development platform.
Impressive but ridiculous claims...especially for a product that has been nearly invisible in the market and without significant update in years.

In related news:
Sun Microsystems reported Friday that revenue dropped slightly and profit plunged 73 percent in the Santa Clara server and software company's fourth quarter.

Sun executives also predicted a loss in the next quarter and little sales growth in the coming year...
Even from my obviously-biased perspective, the idea that any Notes customer would find the idea of spending money on a migration tool to move to Sun's e-mail product in 2008 is, well, definitely on the fringes of market possibility.

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Messaging  Add/View Comments [7]

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  1. 1  Kerr  | 8/2/2008 11:19:45 PM

    But Ed, "According to The Radicati Group, the total cost of ownership of the Sun Java Communications Suite is less than one-quarter the total cost of ownership of Microsoft Exchange 2003."

    Bwaa hahaha!!

  1. 2  Nathan T. Freeman http://nathan.lotus911.com | 8/3/2008 8:50:53 AM

    "Worldwide, there are currently more active mailboxes on Sun Java Communications Suite than its two closest competitors combined."

    I guess the "closest" competitors are Groupwise and the Oracle Suite?

  1. 3  Keith Brooks http://www.vanessabrooks.com | 8/3/2008 12:29:39 PM

    hmm, evidently there is at least one large customer using it, otherwise why bother.

  1. 4  Rob Novak http://www.LotusRockStar.com | 8/3/2008 12:48:15 PM

    "Sun Microsystems reported Friday that revenue dropped slightly and profit plunged 73 percent in the Santa Clara server and software company's fourth quarter."

    I was in Santa Clara last week. Draw your own conclusions.

    "the first major messaging and collaboration platform to include a Web 2.0 client"

    Cough. OWA had the first Ajax Inbox, iNotes (especially the quite impressive Lite implementation), even better. Amazing how easily the Web 2.0 term is used casually in marketing.

  1. 5  Mike Lazar  | 8/3/2008 1:26:54 PM

    I know my corporate conglomerate has well over 1,000,000 managed seats for customers on what is a Sun/iPlanet (legacy Java CS). It is purely a basic, simple, zero bells & whistles system. If you have massive amounts of store workers who need a mailbox to check about 2x/month, it's fine. The cost is virtually zilch. But then again, that's what you're getting. It is by no means a competitor of Domino or Exchange. It's a competitor to Yahoo/GMail/Hotmail, with a bit more control.

  1. 6  Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 8/4/2008 3:25:19 AM

    Sounds like the late Workplace Messaging.

  1. 7  Craig Wiseman http://www.Wiseman.La/cpw | 8/4/2008 8:51:18 AM

    << the first major messaging and collaboration platform to include a Web 2.0 client<<

    Curious...especially since iNotes/DWA has been "web 2.0" & ajaxy since BEFORE web 2.0 and ajax....