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Here's how at least one SharePoint blogger guru views the Notes discussions this week....

Category IBM/Lotus Microsoft
With all the conversations about Lotus Notes this week, a few statements have been made about how the Microsoft bloggers are viewing all the angst.  I don't follow many MS-oriented bloggers, so I'll admit I hadn't seen that statement play out in reality.  But today I ran across a blog entry by Joel Oleson, who is one of the biggest SharePoint gurus in that universe...

Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free... With open arms we welcome Notes Admins and Developers to SharePoint

It’s no longer a fierce battle.  The battle is over and we welcome you with open arms.  It’s a time of reparations it’s a time of healing.  If I could I’d say welcome Notes admins and developers on an icon like the statue of liberty. Which represents the open arms that America once had for welcoming the rejected.

Ouch...

Posted by Thomas Admin Duff On 06/18/2010 | | Bookmark and Share

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Gravatar Image1 - I always wonder what makes the Sharepoint guys so sure that the same, slow decline that happended to the Lotus Notes application platform won't happen to their platform very soon?
And if you don't like Lotus Notes applications (for whatever reason) why would you like Sharepoint? It's just a mixture of different Microsoft specific technologies - where is the benefit from a migration?

Posted by Christian Zalto At 07:42:04 On 18/06/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - more of the same from the MS camp - if they say it often enough, people start to believe it.

Posted by Chris Reckling At 07:43:14 On 18/06/2010 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - Let them jest. At some point the effects of the kool-aid will wear off and they'll figure out that after thousands of wasted hours they've provided no value to their customers. Or Microsoft will make it so easy for the end users that the "developers" are deemed unnecessary.

Either way... I have yet to find a Sharepoint developer who provides value to a company.

Posted by tom oneil At 10:22:18 On 18/06/2010 | - Website - |


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