A lot of people here simply seems not to get that the decision of a management to switch dev platform is a longterm decision.
It doesn't matter so much if converting some departments pet notes app coded in 6 years by different flavours of developers with the common lack of documentation takes 2 years ( reunderstanding all the notes app and architecting/designing/coding it from scratch in .NET).
If .NET is way cooler architecture the decision will pay off in the medium to long term.
Part of my job is maintaining really big Domino apps. And this part often really sucks big time. A lot of the local admins don't know their overcomplicated job properly. Today we had to shut down an important server for 5 hours to run some phonky compact -B (or how its called) over a Domino app close to 2MB on OS/2. Other customers believed IBM that DWF is a stable product. Others bought LSI (a most "brilliant" thing invented by IBM Germany).
Other part is j2ee (I like much more) and .NET is quite high on my agenda, because Microsoft invested a lot of money in it.
Its completly beyond me, why people are not thankfull to management for such a switch decision because they are going to learn new interesting stuff, instead of hoping to continue their "Notes is better than Outlook"-war until retirement.
A lot of people here simply seems not to get that the decision of a management to switch dev platform is a longterm decision.
It doesn't matter so much if converting some departments pet notes app coded in 6 years by different flavours of developers with the common lack of documentation takes 2 years ( reunderstanding all the notes app and architecting/designing/coding it from scratch in .NET).
If .NET is way cooler architecture the decision will pay off in the medium to long term.
Part of my job is maintaining really big Domino apps. And this part often really sucks big time. A lot of the local admins don't know their overcomplicated job properly. Today we had to shut down an important server for 5 hours to run some phonky compact -B (or how its called) over a Domino app close to 2MB on OS/2. Other customers believed IBM that DWF is a stable product. Others bought LSI (a most "brilliant" thing invented by IBM Germany).
Other part is j2ee (I like much more) and .NET is quite high on my agenda, because Microsoft invested a lot of money in it.
Its completly beyond me, why people are not thankfull to management for such a switch decision because they are going to learn new interesting stuff, instead of hoping to continue their "Notes is better than Outlook"-war until retirement.
Axel