I'm so sorry about this to you. You are a great developer and inspiration for a lot of blog-reading people like me. I heard it coming, I went through the Domino rejection phase for a lot of the companies I work for, but it's been even worse since most did not offer a replacement platform (they went for the "get this SAP or standard Sharepoint TeamRoom app or go back to your Excel mode", you know what I mean. Going back to 1980's IT, where IT was so fragmented you couldn't even bother. Now the IT is goin' through that phase).
MS people injected their Exchange+Sharepoint , just for the sake of keeping the user away from the IT. The expenses has raised so much that , just to give u an example, it's 2.5 years a Notes db I did in 2005 should have been shut down. After 3 Sharepoint analysis , always rejected because of missing implementations and functions, we get through the usual January message "budget is not enough to migrate. you'll have to keep it as it is, freezed, for the rest of the year"
Domino was about rapid application development. Sharepoint is not for sure.
I slowly expanded my vision to incorporate iOS app dev (and OS X as well, since a lot of people was focused only to Windows), and as a web platform I picked Ruby on Rails. I am still in learning mode (and will be for a lot of time coming), customers are not here yet, but I better move this year, I don't want to be stuck on Sharepoint and be told "your budget has already been spent" on January....
Hi Jake
I'm so sorry about this to you. You are a great developer and inspiration for a lot of blog-reading people like me. I heard it coming, I went through the Domino rejection phase for a lot of the companies I work for, but it's been even worse since most did not offer a replacement platform (they went for the "get this SAP or standard Sharepoint TeamRoom app or go back to your Excel mode", you know what I mean. Going back to 1980's IT, where IT was so fragmented you couldn't even bother. Now the IT is goin' through that phase).
MS people injected their Exchange+Sharepoint , just for the sake of keeping the user away from the IT. The expenses has raised so much that , just to give u an example, it's 2.5 years a Notes db I did in 2005 should have been shut down. After 3 Sharepoint analysis , always rejected because of missing implementations and functions, we get through the usual January message "budget is not enough to migrate. you'll have to keep it as it is, freezed, for the rest of the year"
Domino was about rapid application development. Sharepoint is not for sure.
I slowly expanded my vision to incorporate iOS app dev (and OS X as well, since a lot of people was focused only to Windows), and as a web platform I picked Ruby on Rails. I am still in learning mode (and will be for a lot of time coming), customers are not here yet, but I better move this year, I don't want to be stuck on Sharepoint and be told "your budget has already been spent" on January....
Wish you the best