I was trying to just detail the most relevant points, but you are forcing my hand ;-)
I was actually an employee at that company, and struggled inside to get them to keep considering Domino, but there was a team of "real" developers who kept insisting that Domino was a toy. That team had control of Oracle, and our proposals 3 years ago to do prototypes with Domino were prevented by them making all sorts of Oracle development/admin objections to what we would need. (I found out this week, that for their Websphere project they are now making the kinds of changes we requested to the structure of Oracle database.) The Domino developers were put under the management of the anti-Domino developers, and were increasingly marginalised. At the same time, IBM was dropping the ball with Domino and it looked like it was being supplanted/replaced by Websphere in the IBM stable. That just gave them more ammunition. After battling with them for several years I gave up, and resigned, after being told I was not even allowed to speak about Domino any more. I tried to work on Websphere for 2 years as required by my managers, but I could see how inefficient and expensive it was going to be. It was soul-destroying to struggle with WSAD and Java and Struts - with no training and no outside consultation, knowing that it would all be much easier in Domino.
I know that Domino is one of the best technologies for web development that there is. I started my own business developing a Domino based web app for which I will sell subscriptions.
I have loads of ideas for other applications, so I'm quite hopeful of being able to at least employ Domino developers myself.
Chris,
I was trying to just detail the most relevant points, but you are forcing my hand ;-)
I was actually an employee at that company, and struggled inside to get them to keep considering Domino, but there was a team of "real" developers who kept insisting that Domino was a toy. That team had control of Oracle, and our proposals 3 years ago to do prototypes with Domino were prevented by them making all sorts of Oracle development/admin objections to what we would need. (I found out this week, that for their Websphere project they are now making the kinds of changes we requested to the structure of Oracle database.) The Domino developers were put under the management of the anti-Domino developers, and were increasingly marginalised. At the same time, IBM was dropping the ball with Domino and it looked like it was being supplanted/replaced by Websphere in the IBM stable. That just gave them more ammunition. After battling with them for several years I gave up, and resigned, after being told I was not even allowed to speak about Domino any more. I tried to work on Websphere for 2 years as required by my managers, but I could see how inefficient and expensive it was going to be. It was soul-destroying to struggle with WSAD and Java and Struts - with no training and no outside consultation, knowing that it would all be much easier in Domino.
I know that Domino is one of the best technologies for web development that there is. I started my own business developing a Domino based web app for which I will sell subscriptions.
I have loads of ideas for other applications, so I'm quite hopeful of being able to at least employ Domino developers myself.