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lotus notes vs. exchange
By booyaabooyaabooyaa | February 4, 2006
for the pendantic: lotus notes/domino vs. outlook/exchange
i’m not about to start a flame war, but i did want an incendiary post title to get your attention 
graham chastney has provided some insightful commentary on ed brill lotus sphere topic: The Boss Loves Microsoft - where does that leave Lotus?
as i started to read graham’s entry, i caught myself getting defensive. the reason is that i’m a fairly loyal ibm bod, i’ve been working with lotus for almost six years (release 4 if you must know). never the less i always open to hearing constructive criticism so i persisted.
graham had some valid points, and more importantly he addresses the school yard favourites:
- the notes client is not user friendly
- outlook is not secure against viruses, trojans, paper clips, etc
- disk storage / single instance storage
- ibm’s identity crisis: websphere or notes/domino
- using sql server/db2 as data store
the arguments are mature and well thought out. he doesn’t leave the notes guys high and dry, we get thrown the following bones:
- powerful reusable application development: write for domino, re-use in websphere
- scalability, availability and of course tco
well worth the read: click here to read graham’s post
what i’d like to see is the equivalent non-microsoft personnel pitch for outlook/exchange.
[tags]lotus notes, lotus domino, outlook, exchange, collaboration[/tags]
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February 4th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Thanks for the link.
You’ll see stuff on both Notes/Domino and Outlook/Exchange from me, but I’m not sure I would actually write an equivalent, we’ll see.
I use both, work with both, consult on both. There are parts in each that are better than the other, there are parts in both that drive me nuts.
http://oak-grove.typepad.com/oakgrove/2005/12/notes_and_outlo.html