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I was reading this whole thread, and this is not the first time I see this kind of discussion. Even Ed Brill had a few of them on his blog. I'm a notes admin & developer for a very long time, and I can't understand why soemone can even think about a M$ outlook mail/calendar. I'm supporting a lot of customers since release 3, where the enemy wasn't M$ but novell & cc:Mail (also from Lotus, before IBM).
I can say that I always had an impression the others was a better solution because users was always complaining about this feature or the other feature missing here. Learning from Ed's blog and other places, I can say Domino is still there, and Novell's mail is not being used anymore. Unfortunatelly in my country I feel Domino is really going to be out of the market, wher only a few companies will use the product. Today, almost every big company had migrated to M$, or they are planning to do it in the next few years.
I don't believe giving a free client to home users will solve the problem, but there is something in the M$ strategy of giving all products for a very low price in the universities, and also giving courses to a lot of new administrators and developers.
I really can't say what is the reason, but users are always happy using M$ products and they are really sad using Domino. Something is wrong but I can't point exactly where. I'll keep maintaining Domino, but when I loose a customer, who moved to M$, there is just a customer less to work with. No one is moving to Domino in my area, and the people who decides, prefers the same product they had in the former company, which was M$. I understand IBM is still in the market and in a worldwide vision, they keep almost the same number of users than M$. But in my area, this is not true. I'm in a small country so the numbers are not impressive for IBM.
Daniel
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