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RE: Future of Lotus Notes ~Fred Xanjumitexjip 12.Nov.02 11:48 AM a Web browser General All ReleasesAll Platforms
Let me ask you this question: Assuming you were in employment and not college or even diapers in November 92 what were you doing and what did you think you'd be doing in 2002? I was doing Adabas Natural programming on an Amdahl mainframe tinkering in my spare time with VB3. Today, I'm developing web applications on Domino 6 adding real time collaboration features and tinkering with Java. Hmmm, quite a bit different. 10 years is a very, very long time in IT. It's perhaps an even longer time than the equivalent in dog years.
From where we are today, I believe the application development market is going to end up being J2EE v .NET. Lotus has signaled their intention to provide J2EE functionality in their products in the future. So we know which side of the fence IBM/Lotus are going to sit. That's just how I see it and until someone new comes in with something that completely changes the landscape then I am going to adopt J2EE to compliment my Notes/Domino skills and apply them as and when my clients need them. Right now, we have lots of clients needing new workflow, document management & collaboration applications and Notes/Domino fits nicely. If they start needing integration with other systems then we'll look at providing Web Services interfaces. If they need us to build transaction based systems then we'll look at WebSphere.
IMO, right now, there is nothing on the J2EE market that does what Lotus (N/D, QP, ST, DD, LW) does so well and therefore I'm happy to wait and start integrating Lotus products with J2EE as my clients need me to. So I'm going to start learning J2EE now and use it when I need to. Don't just do it because you have to, try to do it because you want to.
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