Comments on: Lotus Notes: Staying Relevant http://www.thevirtualcircle.com/2008/12/lotus-notes-staying-relevant/ WordPress site Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ed Brill http://www.thevirtualcircle.com/2008/12/lotus-notes-staying-relevant/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Ed Brill Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:08:24 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2008/12/27/lotus-notes-staying-relevant/#comment-468 Robin, A little history review...actually, IBM bought Lotus for Notes. It was Ray who got a visit from Lou Gerstner after the announcement, not the SmartSuite labs. IBM had already, prior to acquisition, invested a significant amount into Lotus to get desktop OS/2 apps, there was no need for acquisition to get that done. At any rate, here we are nearly in 2009, the year Notes turns 20. It's growing in revenue and number of users, as you state, and Notes 8 -- out for just 15 months -- is being deployed at 50% of Notes customers today. The iNotes web interface for mail has had significant improvements in 8.0, 8.0.1, and now 8.5. 8.5 also introduces xPages, a new way to build collaborative web applications using modern tools like javascript, dojo, etc. Put all this together and Notes/Domino is in great shape for 2009 and beyond. Lotus overall -- we're in beta with "Bluehouse" (bluehouse.lotus.com) and will have more to say about clouds and web 2.0 and millions of users....soon Robin,

A little history review…actually, IBM bought Lotus for Notes. It was Ray who got a visit from Lou Gerstner after the announcement, not the SmartSuite labs. IBM had already, prior to acquisition, invested a significant amount into Lotus to get desktop OS/2 apps, there was no need for acquisition to get that done.

At any rate, here we are nearly in 2009, the year Notes turns 20. It’s growing in revenue and number of users, as you state, and Notes 8 — out for just 15 months — is being deployed at 50% of Notes customers today. The iNotes web interface for mail has had significant improvements in 8.0, 8.0.1, and now 8.5. 8.5 also introduces xPages, a new way to build collaborative web applications using modern tools like javascript, dojo, etc.

Put all this together and Notes/Domino is in great shape for 2009 and beyond. Lotus overall — we’re in beta with “Bluehouse” (bluehouse.lotus.com) and will have more to say about clouds and web 2.0 and millions of users….soon

]]> By: Casparman http://www.thevirtualcircle.com/2008/12/lotus-notes-staying-relevant/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Casparman Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:48:32 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2008/12/27/lotus-notes-staying-relevant/#comment-469 Lotus? Why bother. Perhaps the best strategy would be to make it open source and start contributing to international protocols to exchange calendaring and messaging information seamlessly with other applications. It may have come a long ways in the since I last had to interact regularly with Notes' users, but my memories of it are less than stellar. It still seems like a throwback to the old generation of proprietary software developers huddled together in their back offices finding ways to perpetuate their product. Sadly, I do remember OS 2. One of the worst products to grace the PC platform. It's hard to see good coming out of IBM in the PC software world. Lotus? Why bother. Perhaps the best strategy would be to make it open source and start contributing to international protocols to exchange calendaring and messaging information seamlessly with other applications. It may have come a long ways in the since I last had to interact regularly with Notes’ users, but my memories of it are less than stellar. It still seems like a throwback to the old generation of proprietary software developers huddled together in their back offices finding ways to perpetuate their product. Sadly, I do remember OS 2. One of the worst products to grace the PC platform. It’s hard to see good coming out of IBM in the PC software world.

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