CIO.com: 7 Things IT Managers Should Know About Lotus Notes

December 9 2008

The community's own Duffbert has penned a very strong high-level perspective on the current state of Lotus Notes, addressing seven perceptions or mis-perceptions about the product:

When the phrase "Lotus Notes" is mentioned in the halls of your IT department, you probably hear a range of responses, from "That's still around?" to "Notes is a critical part of our application portfolio, and we couldn't deliver value without it." For a significant enterprise collaboration application that's been around for more than two decades, it's surprising that so many IT professionals still have a difficult time explaining just what Notes and Domino is, what it does and how it fits into the IT infrastructure.

Lotus Notes is the "Ginsu knife" of application development. It slices, it dices, it cuts both leather and tomatoes. This extreme flexibility means that Notes doesn't fit neatly into a single software category in either its definition and functionality. But it also means that your investment in Notes and Domino can deliver more than "just e-mail" to your organization. Are you taking advantage of what it can do?
Glad to see the article address both technical and marketplace things.

Link: CIO.com: 7 Things IT Managers Should Know About Lotus Notes > (thanks, Esther)

Ed Brill | Phoenix, AZ USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8  Add/View Comments [8]

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  1. 1  Nathan T. Freeman http://nathan.lotus911.com | 12/9/2008 12:48:22 PM

    Let us all note that THIS article has a byline!

    When he is not developing Notes-based collaboration applications for a large health insurance company, he's usually reading and reviewing books on his blog, Duffbert's Random Musings. He also speaks at software conferences.

  1. 2  Bill Geimer  | 12/9/2008 1:22:16 PM

    Thanks for the article. Gee, you picked a good day not to be in No. Illinois. The weather is terrible and the Gov. is in jail.

  1. 3  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/9/2008 2:06:10 PM

    @2 /flying home tonight, I don't miss a circus :-)

  1. 4  Mat Newman http://www.isw.net.au | 12/9/2008 5:47:35 PM

    Great Link - just wait for the Outlook v Notes comments to start flying, there's already one there from someone who obviously hasn't had any end-user education after a switch from the dark side.

    BTW Ed, nice recorded presentation run in Hobart Last Night at the HLNUG, none of the "cackles" came through :-)

    Best Regards, Mat

  1. 5  Duffbert http://www.duffbert.com | 12/9/2008 10:08:05 PM

    Thanks for highlighting the article and the kind words... and yes, Nathan, I display my byline proudly. :)

  1. 6  Roberto Boccadoro  | 12/10/2008 6:52:43 AM

    @5 - Displaying your byline is called intellectual honesty. Well done !

  1. 7  Colin Williams  | 12/11/2008 1:24:48 PM

    Didn't forward to the boss because a) shes a convert and b) like Bruce Elgort, I found it too defensive. Still, its good to see this kind of thing getting out there.

  1. 8  Luke  | 12/14/2008 1:28:12 PM

    As I posted on their website (cio.com), starting from today : try to search for LOTUS NOTES and you will find a curious first result:

    Migrating An Enterprise from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange ...

    Swett & Crawford had been using IBM Lotus Notes for years but it was proving hard to find qualified Notes support and their Notes email repository was ...

    www.cio.com/white-paper/456627/Migrating_An_Enterprise_from_Lotus_ Notes_to_Microsoft_Exchange

    Labeled White Papers

    No mention of this article in the first page while on saturday it was on top of the result list.

    Anyone suspecting what could have happened on cio.com? Another Microsoft cheat?