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First, the city and county of San Francisco have decided to move their disparate messaging systems, including IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, to the Microsoft cloud.
San Francisco evaluated Google, IBM Lotus, and Microsoft. Some believe that the per user cost of the new BPOS environment will cost $6.50 per user per month.
Second, Westpac Banking Systems, one of Australia's largest IBM Lotus customers, ". . . has finally confirmed it is ready to dump the platform in favour of Microsoft's rival Outlook/Exchange system."
Well, at least at Westpac, IBM wins migration services. The money shot from the article, IMHO, is this (emphasis mine):
After two large migrations, there's a report that another Australian organization, SP AusNet, will be moving their 2,500 users to BPOS.
Ouch.
Link: San Francisco Migrates to Hosted Exchange
Link: Westpac poised to dump Lotus Notes
Link: SP AusNet drops Lotus Notes; data hosted offshore
Over the next year San Francisco will transition 23,000 users to the system and has had 300 pilot employees using the hosted service for the past five months.
San Francisco will pay Microsoft US$1.2 million a year or $6.50 per month per user, said Jon Walton, CIO for the City and County of San Francisco. "It's a significant cost savings to the city and was one of the key ways the department of technology was able to achieve the 20 percent budget reduction for this year which was a directive from the mayor," he said.
The city is currently operating seven e-mail systems, including two different Lotus Notes systems and five Exchange on-premise products. Maintaining those various systems was costly, in terms of supporting the hardware and software as well as management costs, he said.
San Francisco evaluated Google, IBM Lotus, and Microsoft. Some believe that the per user cost of the new BPOS environment will cost $6.50 per user per month.
Second, Westpac Banking Systems, one of Australia's largest IBM Lotus customers, ". . . has finally confirmed it is ready to dump the platform in favour of Microsoft's rival Outlook/Exchange system."
“Westpac is currently reviewing its email requirements,” a bank spokesperson said in a brief statement this afternoon, “and looking forward to migrating all Westpac staff to Microsoft Outlook.” The bank could not confirm any further details, but people with knowledge of the situation said it intended to migrate to the latest version of Microsoft’s platform — Exchange 2010 — over the next 18 months with the support of both existing partner IBM and Japanese IT services giant Fujitsu.
The move will constitute one of the largest Lotus to Exchange migrations in Australia’s history, as the bank has some 39,000 staff — dwarfing even the shift by Qantas in 2010 of its 20,000 staff to Exchange, and other rollouts such as the ones conducted by financial services giant AMP and Coca-Cola Amatil.
Well, at least at Westpac, IBM wins migration services. The money shot from the article, IMHO, is this (emphasis mine):
Opinions differ vastly between technology sector workers about the merits of the two platforms, with many preferring either one — or even Google’s Apps suite. However, common reasons cited by chief information officers for the ongoing migrations from Notes include the belief that it doesn’t support third-party devices such as mobile phones as well, and the powerful integration between Outlook/Exchange and the rest of Microsoft’s enterprise software stack and unified communications platforms built by vendors like Cisco (which Westpac also uses).
After two large migrations, there's a report that another Australian organization, SP AusNet, will be moving their 2,500 users to BPOS.
Singapore Power-owned AusNet wanted to give staff mobile access to their email but found Lotus Notes too expensive to use in smartphones and tablets. "The big-ticket item was accessibility and using Notes was difficult," Chris Howard, AusNet ICT service delivery and operations manager, said.
"We had to buy additional products to get email and calendaring on our phones if we upgraded Lotus Notes . . . it would have cost much more."He declined to say how much but said "upgrading Notes would have cost us a factor of four".
"You need extra software, another (Lotus Notes) server licence and client licences to provide accessibility on mobile devices . . . it was a real challenge for us," he said.
Ouch.
Link: San Francisco Migrates to Hosted Exchange
Link: Westpac poised to dump Lotus Notes
Link: SP AusNet drops Lotus Notes; data hosted offshore
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