I am VERY sorry to hear that... because I can empathize. While the Dominoids are open to new technologies and feel confident in their product, I am constantly running into people who are so scared that their respective technology skillset will be threatened that they whisper in the ear of the decision makers. What always got me - I'm normally too busy producing products that work to sit and gab with the CIO/IT managers. Sadly though, most of these decision makers would rather have a buddy in the naysayer than actually look at the product and say "y'know... this works".
A former employer was a perfect example:
A certain person on the team that was fairly good at what he did, but KNEW he/she was the greatest at everything (a "well, I didn't do it so it's crap"-type of person) became really fast friends with the main decision maker... most of the time joking at Domino or my personal expense. Things such as redirecting all of my web proxy traffic via a firewall rule called "BadToohey" to either the M$ Exchange main portal or several different "Notes sucks!" sites out there were commonplace, and when reported to managers, employers, and HR all was quickly hushed or laughed at. Additional professional attacks were then followed by personal attacks - attempts to crash my website (yeah right) to registering a like domain name, copying all of my content save adding a few slanderous comments that I was avoiding management by sleeping under my desk or in the server room after my 3+ hour lunch.
I'm in a MUCH better place now... and have learned a great deal from those experiences. The biggest, by far, is that some techies that aren't confident in their abilities or their technologies might just try to knock down those of us who are.
That lot being said, I really am sorry to hear that you were phased out of the deal like that, and sorry that my original comment may have come across in a "get off *YOUR* ass" manner.
Ok, I better end this before I hit the byte-limit on this field ;-)
Bernard,
I am VERY sorry to hear that... because I can empathize. While the Dominoids are open to new technologies and feel confident in their product, I am constantly running into people who are so scared that their respective technology skillset will be threatened that they whisper in the ear of the decision makers. What always got me - I'm normally too busy producing products that work to sit and gab with the CIO/IT managers. Sadly though, most of these decision makers would rather have a buddy in the naysayer than actually look at the product and say "y'know... this works".
A former employer was a perfect example:
A certain person on the team that was fairly good at what he did, but KNEW he/she was the greatest at everything (a "well, I didn't do it so it's crap"-type of person) became really fast friends with the main decision maker... most of the time joking at Domino or my personal expense. Things such as redirecting all of my web proxy traffic via a firewall rule called "BadToohey" to either the M$ Exchange main portal or several different "Notes sucks!" sites out there were commonplace, and when reported to managers, employers, and HR all was quickly hushed or laughed at. Additional professional attacks were then followed by personal attacks - attempts to crash my website (yeah right) to registering a like domain name, copying all of my content save adding a few slanderous comments that I was avoiding management by sleeping under my desk or in the server room after my 3+ hour lunch.
I'm in a MUCH better place now... and have learned a great deal from those experiences. The biggest, by far, is that some techies that aren't confident in their abilities or their technologies might just try to knock down those of us who are.
That lot being said, I really am sorry to hear that you were phased out of the deal like that, and sorry that my original comment may have come across in a "get off *YOUR* ass" manner.
Ok, I better end this before I hit the byte-limit on this field ;-)
-Chris