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See this is what I am talking about.
This is not just one or two companies complaining. This is may companies complaining and leaving Lotus Notes. I only see one or two in this thread. As Nathan Freeman pointed out to me offline, a posting like this two years ago got fifty or sixty responses, right off the bat. Things have changed.
I do not know what IBM\Lotus is looking at, but us Developers and Admins in the trenches are seeing Lotus Notes disappear. I would REALLY hate to see Lotus die off to a P.O.S. like Exchange...
I do not know what to tell IBM\Lotus to do but they need to do something. We have been doing lots, like shipping Notes/Domino 8, the biggest release ever.
I do not know how much this will prove my point but, if you go to www.dice.com and do a search for Lotus Notes, you will see less than 1,000 jobs. Now do the same search but for ASP.Net, you will see well over 4,000 jobs. this tells me that Lotus Notes is not in demand anymore because companies are moving to Microsoft....No, it is an apples-to-oranges comparison. ASP.Net is a much broader toolset, and when you search on it, you are explicitly searching for development jobs with that tool set. Notes jobs could be described as Domino jobs as well.
Do not get me wrong my any means, I love Lotus, I have for 12 years, However if what we are seeing continues to happen, we developers and admins will not have a choice but to leave Lotus Notes as well if we want to keep employeed.
I REALLY DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO DO THAT.... I don't want you to, either.
Also, most CEOs that I have dealt with hate Lotus Notes because they experienced it in some earlier version and think it has not changed.
Maybe IBM\Lotus should do something to prove to them that Lotus Notes has changed.... Like www.ibm.com/lotusnotes . And running ads for that on cnn.com, forbes, etc.
I do not speak for everyone else but I am sure they will agreee with me. Everyone will agree? I am used to "Lotus marketing ____" complaints, have been fielding them for many years (but with decreasing frequency). I do not think everyone will agree, though.
IBM\Lotus PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!!
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