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Ed, I respect you quite a bit and read your blog looking for helpful hints and tips, but...really?
Notes has always been slow compared to Exchange...and I grant you it's not always apples to apples, but when a user can pull up an email in Exchange in the time the Notes client is still refreshing or doing whatever it is that it's doing behind the scenes, it's a hard sell. Bottom line. And people don't care that Notes can do ten times the things that exchange can without further licensing, or other products, etc. He's right...they went head to head in the messaging department and got squashed. And trust me, it pains me to say it, too...but that's the reality.
You know why we hang on to Notes? Because everything we do is tied to db's. Our time tracking, our help desks, our payroll, finances, hr, expenses, travel...EVERYTHING!! But do you think any of our newly acquired people care about that? NO...they care about the time it takes to open those databases either via client or the web...it's all about what have you done for me lately...and what has IBM done for us lately?
I am more than willing to take this off-line and show you and whomever else you'd like to see what TITAN Technology Partners does with Lotus Notes and how we can improve what we're doing, or to show you the problems we are having because we are an ardent supporter of Notes, but it's only a matter of time before we have to take our back end to SAP or ORACLE, since that's what our consulting business mainly revolves around. And out of our hundreds of clients, do you know how many actually use Notes? I can count them on one hand. And do you know how many have gone from Notes to Exchange? I can count them on two hands with help from my toes. We're not a small company: www.ttpartners.com.
Take a look and let me know if you're interested in having some serious IBM and TTP discussions, because I am. I'd love to see us stay with Lotus, but man, it's not going to be easy.
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