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  1. An important thing to remember is that SharePoint requires a lot of time and money to emulate a native Notes or Domino application. Just like when Exchange started being something you saw Notes houses migrating to, many of those organizations STILL have their Notes apps... especially where they had a significant investment in Notes already. It is very likely that Notes work will continue to be required even where people are migrating to SharePoint because you can't move all your apps overnight and support needs will still come up. During that time, we ought all be working to make the cost to convert apparent to the people who decide where to spend the money. Updating a Notes app to use XPages or a Flex interface preserves the customer investment without throwing all the time and money that has been spent developing business logic and a Notes app to run it right out the window.

    In short - life is what you make of it and the more adaptable you are, the longer you will survive. Just be honest when someone asks - can you do this? The answer may be "I can do it in Notes in about 15 minutes. Give me a week and we'll get the same thing going on SharePoint for you." and remember to smile. :-)

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