I partially agree with what you are saying. However, I truly believe that the Domino platform will be a viable development platform in the future. However, I do not see a future for the Lotus Notes client. Whether you are a freelancer or a company, you have to support your business and feed your family. Therefore, if the customer needs a solution and they have .NET then so be it. If it is Ruby on Rails so be it. XPages is great in the Domino world but it still lacks behind when compared with other solutions. For us Domino is simply a unique datastore that has great back-end integration capabilities. That is what make Domino great not XPages. We have adopted Dojo (which is what parts of XPages are based on) not XPages because our skills can be applied to other platforms.
Ferdy,
I partially agree with what you are saying. However, I truly believe that the Domino platform will be a viable development platform in the future. However, I do not see a future for the Lotus Notes client. Whether you are a freelancer or a company, you have to support your business and feed your family. Therefore, if the customer needs a solution and they have .NET then so be it. If it is Ruby on Rails so be it. XPages is great in the Domino world but it still lacks behind when compared with other solutions. For us Domino is simply a unique datastore that has great back-end integration capabilities. That is what make Domino great not XPages. We have adopted Dojo (which is what parts of XPages are based on) not XPages because our skills can be applied to other platforms.