Notes v Exchange – ‘Who’s the Dodo?’ - Part 3
Migration – at what cost?
Perceived or actual cost! I am not sure that many decision makers/companies get this right and often perceive the associated costs as being lower than they actually are. There seems to be a lack of recognition at how Notes applications are built and used by organisations, so moving to other technologies is usually not economically viable. The following links are for mail, but applications are potentially more of a problem and often don't even get migrated.
http://blog.vinceschuurman.com/home/ndt4.nsf/(LUBlogContent)/200806031530
http://www.billbuchan.com/web.nsf/d6plinks/BBUN-7CKCRW
Whether I advocate one platform over another is immaterial as the logical fiscal stance would be to stay put.
I understand the drivers behind corporate gorilla strategies to affect migration statistics and therefore, increase their bottom line but what is the true cost benefit analysis? And would it not make more sense to promote the reasons why you should remain with the current platform?
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Perceived or actual cost! I am not sure that many decision makers/companies get this right and often perceive the associated costs as being lower than they actually are. There seems to be a lack of recognition at how Notes applications are built and used by organisations, so moving to other technologies is usually not economically viable. The following links are for mail, but applications are potentially more of a problem and often don't even get migrated.
http://blog.vinceschuurman.com/home/ndt4.nsf/(LUBlogContent)/200806031530
http://www.billbuchan.com/web.nsf/d6plinks/BBUN-7CKCRW
Whether I advocate one platform over another is immaterial as the logical fiscal stance would be to stay put.
I understand the drivers behind corporate gorilla strategies to affect migration statistics and therefore, increase their bottom line but what is the true cost benefit analysis? And would it not make more sense to promote the reasons why you should remain with the current platform?
(read more)
So what are the migration figures and in what direction are these companies travelling? Well, it is hard to say as we only speak to customers on Notes maybe moving away, we rarely get to speak to people maybe coming to Notes. According to published sources things are even in terms of market share and both sides claim to be winning customers from the other:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ibm-NYSE-IBM-884845.html
However, the MS information is often proved to be misleading or inaccurate:
http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/he-had-no-idea-but-then-again...microsoft-wants-to-steal-five-million-notes-customers
So what is the future?
Both Notes & Exchange/Outlook/Sharepoint etc are a part of the IT fabric and both have huge shares of the market for mail and IBM & MS are just too big to simply fade away.
Will the brands or products disappear? Too early to say, the battle is just beginning.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Ibm-NYSE-IBM-884845.html
However, the MS information is often proved to be misleading or inaccurate:
http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/he-had-no-idea-but-then-again...microsoft-wants-to-steal-five-million-notes-customers
So what is the future?
Both Notes & Exchange/Outlook/Sharepoint etc are a part of the IT fabric and both have huge shares of the market for mail and IBM & MS are just too big to simply fade away.
Will the brands or products disappear? Too early to say, the battle is just beginning.
Category Notes Threats
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If you are already using IBM software such as Websphere Portal and IBM Content Manager, then using Lotus is a natural. If you are already using Outlook/Exchange and other Office applications, then SharePoint is a better choice, especially if you already have .NET developers in-house.
This makes perfect sense to a large degree. What doesn't make so much sense to me is the downplaying of two major differentiators and benefits of the Lotus platform over SharePoint. Specifically, data and application logic server to server and server to client replication, and the available 3rd party software applications available. For most organizations, I would think these distinctions would be huge!
Scott
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