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RE: Fitness for a particular purpose ~Alexis Elluski 6.Dec.02 07:06 PM a Web browser Notes Client 6.0Linux - RedHat, Linux - SuSE
While as a technical person I apreciate why Lotus Notes is a more secure and better choice most executive's don't care. Our CIO thankfully is somewhat technically enclined but still is a long time Outlook user. We are still teetering on the brink of losing Notes here but in the long run it is a fight I think we will win since we have over 400 custom applications that no one has been able to replace by out of the box solutions and they have tried very hard the last year to get Notes out of here. I'm also pushing R6 to the moon here which he seemed to like quite a bit. But why did it even come to that where 1 person could decide the fate of Lotus here after it had been a part of our company for 7 years?
Why not a Lotus Lite? A client based on the look and feel of the real Lotus Notes client but designed for home use and is fully functional in a non domino environment? If you make this cross platform compatible I.E. OSX, Linux, do you realize what type of potential marketshare that could mean? Outlook can't compete there you'd practically have it all to yourself.
You'd get mindshare which is a big deal when people are familiar with a product and have to make a decision. Are you guys that hard up for developers that you can't get a small group together to make a stripped down but fully functional cross platform mail client?
Think of it as advertising, people download the lite client get use to the look feel and functionality of Louts Notes and then are more inclined to use Louts Notes if given the chance in other area's.
You guys for R5 did have the client available for download, no one used it at home because the install was tedious for a pop user and rules did not work outside of Domino.
Why the complete resistance to expand Lotus's marketshare? I would think Lotus want to expand not box itself in a corner.
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