I like these sort of posts Jake, it lets me unleash my "Mr. Hyde".
General animosity by business and customers towards Lotus Notes has reached a point where they'll even believe the crap espoused by a M$ BP to get out of the platform. And it's understandable considering what a tremendous balls-up the Notes 8 client was, when it was released with much fan-fare.
Eclipse is very poorly implemented and the complexity to exploit the capabilities to integrate and evolve add-ons is beyond the majority of developers.
So, developers alienated because of increased development complexity as well as general neglect, users are alienated because of poor performance and stability, and IT support alienated because of increased complexity to support it. In the meantime competitors and the world has moved on.
Then, just to finish things off with a good kick in the gonads for BP's, IBM then openly cannibalises it's BP's by offering LotusLive as an alternative to on-premises, thus eliminiting any opportunity for BP's to sell Domino solutions. No wonder Jake, that you had to do ASP.Net. It's a safer bet MS won't sabotage your efforts.
I like these sort of posts Jake, it lets me unleash my "Mr. Hyde".
General animosity by business and customers towards Lotus Notes has reached a point where they'll even believe the crap espoused by a M$ BP to get out of the platform. And it's understandable considering what a tremendous balls-up the Notes 8 client was, when it was released with much fan-fare.
Eclipse is very poorly implemented and the complexity to exploit the capabilities to integrate and evolve add-ons is beyond the majority of developers.
So, developers alienated because of increased development complexity as well as general neglect, users are alienated because of poor performance and stability, and IT support alienated because of increased complexity to support it. In the meantime competitors and the world has moved on.
Then, just to finish things off with a good kick in the gonads for BP's, IBM then openly cannibalises it's BP's by offering LotusLive as an alternative to on-premises, thus eliminiting any opportunity for BP's to sell Domino solutions. No wonder Jake, that you had to do ASP.Net. It's a safer bet MS won't sabotage your efforts.