Location : Cleveland, OH
"Comedy is tragedy happening to someone
else" - W.C. Fields
That pretty much sums up my feelings toward all of the "Goodbye Lotus Notes" postings I've done lately. That "someone" is usually IBM. Now, since IBM probably had no idea that the "Anonymous Cleveland Company" and this "Anonymous Youngstown Company" even existed, let alone used one of their products, the tragedy is happening to me. You may now enjoy the comedic aspects of this post.
Let's travel back in time when I was contacted by a company in Youngstown, with roughly 125 employees, to assist with some light Domino Administration work. They had a really difficult time finding someone, any one, in Youngstown to help them with their IBM Lotus messaging and application environment. Fixed their Notes/Domino R6 environment running on Windows. They had me back, several times, to talk about upgrades and LotusLive. There were some technical issues with moving to LotusLive and some budget issues to upgrade their environment. So, they decided to stay on Domino 6 until the IBM cloud offering matured. But that didn't happen as fast they hoped and the Google alternative became much more appealing. Now, I will be migrating them to the Google cloud.
As for the applications? Those are either being jettisoned or replaced by another solution. It will depend upon the application.
You lose the IBM messaging platform, you lose the the entire IBM stack.
That "LotusLive" name? It will probably be rebranded soon. Quite possibly in the next few weeks. I'm sure there will some sort of "Smarter" name.
But what isn't going away will be the need for e-mail. Sure, there have been some people and organizations that have taken the step of eliminating it, however secure messaging within and outside of an organization will never go away. It may take different forms, but there will remain a persistent business need for creation, transmission, storage, recovery and security of one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many rich text communications and on-board file cargo. None of the social media solutions provides all of this internally and externally to an organization in the way provided by a simple POP3-SMTP infrastructure.
That pretty much sums up my feelings toward all of the "Goodbye Lotus Notes" postings I've done lately. That "someone" is usually IBM. Now, since IBM probably had no idea that the "Anonymous Cleveland Company" and this "Anonymous Youngstown Company" even existed, let alone used one of their products, the tragedy is happening to me. You may now enjoy the comedic aspects of this post.
Let's travel back in time when I was contacted by a company in Youngstown, with roughly 125 employees, to assist with some light Domino Administration work. They had a really difficult time finding someone, any one, in Youngstown to help them with their IBM Lotus messaging and application environment. Fixed their Notes/Domino R6 environment running on Windows. They had me back, several times, to talk about upgrades and LotusLive. There were some technical issues with moving to LotusLive and some budget issues to upgrade their environment. So, they decided to stay on Domino 6 until the IBM cloud offering matured. But that didn't happen as fast they hoped and the Google alternative became much more appealing. Now, I will be migrating them to the Google cloud.
As for the applications? Those are either being jettisoned or replaced by another solution. It will depend upon the application.
You lose the IBM messaging platform, you lose the the entire IBM stack.
That "LotusLive" name? It will probably be rebranded soon. Quite possibly in the next few weeks. I'm sure there will some sort of "Smarter" name.
But what isn't going away will be the need for e-mail. Sure, there have been some people and organizations that have taken the step of eliminating it, however secure messaging within and outside of an organization will never go away. It may take different forms, but there will remain a persistent business need for creation, transmission, storage, recovery and security of one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many rich text communications and on-board file cargo. None of the social media solutions provides all of this internally and externally to an organization in the way provided by a simple POP3-SMTP infrastructure.
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