Do Microsoft Business Partners even read their press releases?
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This gem from Unify pushing the whole Domino-To-Microsoft conversion software...
Efficiently Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to Modern Platforms
ABSTRACT:
As businesses move into the era of highly scalable architectures, SOA, rich customer-facing applications, and mobile workforces, they are discovering that previously satisfactory workgroup and workflow systems no longer provide needed capabilities.
Lotus Notes, in particular, is quickly becoming viewed as a legacy platform that is difficult to shed as part of a move to modern, scalable, and non-proprietary architectures.
This white paper examines:
* Options for rapidly migrating off of Lotus Notes to Microsoft's .NET platform
* How organizations can better manage the transition
* A solution for migration off the complex Lotus Notes applications to Microsoft's enterprise infrastructure
First off, Lotus Notes does "highly scalable architectures, SOA, rich customer-facing applications, and mobile workforces" just fine, thank you.
But what really gets me is how moving to a "modern, scalable, non-proprietary" involves *anything* to do with Microsoft! And comparing a "complex" Lotus Notes application to Microsoft's "enterprise infrastructure" is laughable. Have you seen how many moving parts you need to build an equivalent platform in Microsoft? Look up "complex" in the dictionary, and you'll find Microsoft's logo...
Blatant sales hype and lies don't get much better than this one... :)
This gem from Unify pushing the whole Domino-To-Microsoft conversion software...
Efficiently Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to Modern Platforms
ABSTRACT:
As businesses move into the era of highly scalable architectures, SOA, rich customer-facing applications, and mobile workforces, they are discovering that previously satisfactory workgroup and workflow systems no longer provide needed capabilities.
Lotus Notes, in particular, is quickly becoming viewed as a legacy platform that is difficult to shed as part of a move to modern, scalable, and non-proprietary architectures.
This white paper examines:
* Options for rapidly migrating off of Lotus Notes to Microsoft's .NET platform
* How organizations can better manage the transition
* A solution for migration off the complex Lotus Notes applications to Microsoft's enterprise infrastructure
First off, Lotus Notes does "highly scalable architectures, SOA, rich customer-facing applications, and mobile workforces" just fine, thank you.
But what really gets me is how moving to a "modern, scalable, non-proprietary" involves *anything* to do with Microsoft! And comparing a "complex" Lotus Notes application to Microsoft's "enterprise infrastructure" is laughable. Have you seen how many moving parts you need to build an equivalent platform in Microsoft? Look up "complex" in the dictionary, and you'll find Microsoft's logo...
Blatant sales hype and lies don't get much better than this one... :)
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And if you can make a case for Microsoft and .Net to be both non-complex and non-proprietary, I'd be more than happy to hear you out.
Posted by Duffbert At 08:21:12 On 03/12/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Tom Franks At 08:00:39 On 03/12/2007 | - Website - |
I think the same goes for the non-proprietary phrase as well. I agree it's a poor choice of words and "non-proprietary" certainly wouldn't apply to the Microsoft environment. What I think they're addressing here is a general desire that exists in many companies to "standardize" their enterprise development platforms and tooling. And right now, that typically involves making a choice between J2EE and .NET. I have known people that were involved in such decisions and several times Lotus wound up out in the cold, not because it wasn't functional or because people weren't able to put out good apps with it, but more or less because it doesn't fit neatly in one of the camps and therefore couldn't fall into the company's "standard".
Keep up the good work, I have enjoyed your blog through the years.
Posted by Mike Knuth At 10:54:48 On 07/12/2007 | - Website - |
I think non-techies who make decisions think Lotus Notes is way too complex.
I've been talking to a user who's Microsoft Access application has four forms but one massive table. The data structure is just plain wrong and I tried to convince her with what I could do in Notes and she just didn't get it.
Posted by Tom At 20:03:49 On 03/12/2007 | - Website - |