I hear you - got the same going on for myself here.
We were a Domino-only shop about 18 months ago ... but now do a LOT of PHP / MySQL development, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress and Magento work. It's what pays the bills - and there's plenty of it. So much so, we're just hiring a PHP/MySQL developer that I'm going to have to cross-train to do some development and support work for Domino systems that we have.
I LOVE Domino. It's SO fast to produce beautiful results. I meet a lot of clients pre-sales ... and if it's a new client and I mention Lotus Notes or Domino, it normally loses the sale. If I mention it's Drupal or Joomla, or something else like that .. it's all good - the stigma of the old Notes client just hangs around like a bad smell whatever beautiful solutions I, and my team can produce.
So what can be done to "solve" the "problem" ?
- Sack the advertising guys in Lotus and finally bring some new blood in? (about 10 years overdue)
Open source it all? (I know it's been discussed in so many places)
Change the web server to Apache? (hehe, OK OK)
... to be honest ... the plugin and community architecture around the alternate products allows me to develop SO quickly and with such enjoyment, I'm going to stick with this new route for now.
... but would be happy to be on a team led by IBM/Lotus to help them come up with a resurgence.
Hey Jake
Always nice to see a post from you ...
I hear you - got the same going on for myself here.
We were a Domino-only shop about 18 months ago ... but now do a LOT of PHP / MySQL development, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress and Magento work. It's what pays the bills - and there's plenty of it. So much so, we're just hiring a PHP/MySQL developer that I'm going to have to cross-train to do some development and support work for Domino systems that we have.
I LOVE Domino. It's SO fast to produce beautiful results. I meet a lot of clients pre-sales ... and if it's a new client and I mention Lotus Notes or Domino, it normally loses the sale. If I mention it's Drupal or Joomla, or something else like that .. it's all good - the stigma of the old Notes client just hangs around like a bad smell whatever beautiful solutions I, and my team can produce.
So what can be done to "solve" the "problem" ?
- Sack the advertising guys in Lotus and finally bring some new blood in? (about 10 years overdue)
Open source it all? (I know it's been discussed in so many places)
Change the web server to Apache? (hehe, OK OK)
... to be honest ... the plugin and community architecture around the alternate products allows me to develop SO quickly and with such enjoyment, I'm going to stick with this new route for now.
... but would be happy to be on a team led by IBM/Lotus to help them come up with a resurgence.
... again Jake, thanks for sharing