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Hello together, a agree that not all what IBM has done was best or even good. As you mentioned, advertising for Notes was boring or inexistent. That's also the reason why people discuss of replacing Notes with Exchange, Quir with Sharepoint, Sametime with Office Communicator.... but as usual if you know both worlds in realtime not on paper or from the vendors one is clear: Take a Notes 4.5 Database, connect it under an 8.0 client and it works.... Take Exchange 5.5 go to 2007 you can't!!! Someone told that the Hardware he uses could be not best but it works still... try it once with Exchange 2007 --> no chance. We have a new Infrastructure for 2500 clients sized by Microsoft (you heard right) and when you click on a user you wait 2-5 seconds to see the mailbox infos on the Exchange server (load today 150 clients... that's boring)... Unified Messaging from R1 --> upcoming R2 no Upgrade path (sounds cool, not) you saw that once by IBM? Or you have an idea for the Sharpoint Indexing Server how much memory you need to start (designed by Microsoft themselves)? 64 GB of memory.. ha ha i never saw a notes server having that for email & Databases... That's ugly... or a last example.. you like the Cluster Servers in Domino... Then take a deep breath before you go to Exchange 2007.... no more active/active Cluster (written in their technotes... we abandoned active active because we had problems with earlier versions)... that's really weird.... now let's reflect the problems you found and compare to that i explained here in a few seconds and you see there are 2 big differences within this 2 companies: IBM is used to deal with longterm strategie (not always obvious, you're right)... or end user strategy --> install from scratch... I do not defend IBM's weak marketing or since the change from Iris to IBM, answers in the forum have lost quality, but it's still a good and robust product (if you give him the right Hardware to run on it... for a last example i'm still running Lotus Domino 8.0.2 on a old IBM Server x232 with 1 GB of RAM and it works (with hosted Homepages).. means for mail/databases/Webservices... try that once with Exchange 2007 and tell me your feedback (if you will finish the installation successfully)!!!
Feedback response number WEBB7MTDYP created by ~James Kinumar on 12/30/2008
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. . complains (~James Kinumar 30.Dec.08) 
