Not much to add. I've worked on a small site that had decommissioned Notes mail, and it was trivial to add hooks in the Notes applications to trigger Exchange messaging for a rudimentary work-flow (no extra Notes-centric advanced mail features; no mail-in databases).
I am yet to be convinced that it is possible to migrate Notes applications to another platform. I agree with Charles Ross: better standards, policies and procedures in the development cycle is a better investment than basically re-inventing all the applications in another platform.
That said, you might be able to use Lotus Workplace as an intermediary migration, in a two phased migration. (Heck, if they're going to Microsoft then obviously money is no object ;-)
My best advice would be to go to Websphere. As they don't seem to want IBM, then I would only agree that Oracle or Sybase might be able to extract the data from Notes (never done it though). The M$ .net platform is not defined, clearly signposted or fully functional.
Not much to add. I've worked on a small site that had decommissioned Notes mail, and it was trivial to add hooks in the Notes applications to trigger Exchange messaging for a rudimentary work-flow (no extra Notes-centric advanced mail features; no mail-in databases).
I am yet to be convinced that it is possible to migrate Notes applications to another platform. I agree with Charles Ross: better standards, policies and procedures in the development cycle is a better investment than basically re-inventing all the applications in another platform.
That said, you might be able to use Lotus Workplace as an intermediary migration, in a two phased migration. (Heck, if they're going to Microsoft then obviously money is no object ;-)
My best advice would be to go to Websphere. As they don't seem to want IBM, then I would only agree that Oracle or Sybase might be able to extract the data from Notes (never done it though). The M$ .net platform is not defined, clearly signposted or fully functional.
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