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5 IT Alternatives - Open Source Software Most Accepted

According to a survey done by InformationWeek, open source software is the ‘most accepted’ IT alternative among IT executives from more than 300 companies. With more than half of the respondents from large companies (1,000 employees or more) and 30% from very large companies (10,000 employees or more), I was a little surprised that open source is already in use by 42% of them.

The 5 IT Alternatives Surveyed
  • Open Source Software
  • SaaS (Software as a Service)
  • Cloud Computing
  • Social Networking Tools (blogs, microblogs, wikis, RSS, etc.)
  • Rich Internet Applications (mashups, Ajax, Flash/Flex, Silverlight, etc.)

    • With these survey results in mind, why isn’t OpenNTF a lot more popular among the Lotus/Domino community? I have some of my own ideas on this, but it would be interesting to hear what you have to say. Let me know.

    By the way, you can see the complete survey here.

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    Posted by Scott Johnsen On 04/16/2009 | | | |   | del.icio.us  | Technorati  | Digg This 

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    1 - why isn’t OpenNTF a lot more popular?

    most of the applications are half-baked and need to much work before you can implement it as a grown-up application.

    furthermore the site sucks, feels like you are browsing in the nineties.

    Posted by Patrick Kwinten At 04:45:32 AM On 04/17/2009 | - Website - |


    2 - Patrick - You bring up two excellent points. Given the first problem, I not sure how much the second problem matters ... at least for now. Although as a frequent user of Blogsphere, I am very happy with that application. Kudos to all involved in that project.

    So why is it that so many of the applications there are only half baked? Is that simply the nature of "open"? Employers won't allow employees to post? Organizations won't use applications from OpenNTF?

    Posted by Scott Johnsen At 08:52:07 AM On 04/17/2009 | - Website - |


    3 - Another reason is, that domino is not an "open" platform: every kid can do a new php/JS/ajax/Java/... application, but only IT professionals have access to Notes/Domino. Almost every great open source app was started as "pet project" by someone, who scratched an itch. And I can't really think of an itch, which justifies an domino server, an notes client and a big bill before I can do something with it.

    Also, is is great for big companies, but not sexy for the average user: not at the edge of new technology (even xpages is several years behind the bleeding edge and not even standard conformant).

    Posted by Jan Schulz At 12:06:47 PM On 04/17/2009 | - Website - |


    4 - Also, Notes/Domino is a big peace of software. Something like a database server (MYSQL/Postrgresq), a application server (Tomcat), email (exim, postfix), a mail programm (thunderbird), a contact manager, a calendering and todo app, ...

    Notes in itself is a bloated pice of software. It's an kind of operation system with it's own "rules". I don't install a application and database server, just to get a small document library going.

    Notes as a system (collaboration, replication, etc) is great. But again probably not my itch which I want to scratch Emoticon

    Posted by Jan Schulz At 12:17:46 PM On 04/17/2009 | - Website - |


    5 - @Jan - Great point. I can't imagine installing Notes at home so I can, as you say, "scratch an itch".

    Posted by Scott Johnsen At 05:31:07 PM On 04/18/2009 | - Website - |


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