Oh to be heading to Orlando

Well another year dawns and another Lotusphere goes under attended so once again I end up relying on the Internet to keep me up-to-date.  Sometimes I do wonder if the next time I attend an interview I should enquire “Would you send me to LotusSphere, pppplllllleeeeeeaaaaasssssseeeeee????”.

With Notes 8.5 now released we are already planning a set of upgrades to both servers and clients (still running 6.5 for most users) and looking forward to the hoped benefits of DAOS.

Yes I know that I have kept on mentioning my concerns over Exchange, but as I keep pointing out to my boss, if we decide to move to Exchange tomorrow, it’s going to take a good year or two to move the users and about 5-10 years to convert all our apps.  Is the benefit really there I don’t think so!!!

So in the mean time we still need to go to Notes 8.5, then 9 and probably 10 the way things currently stand.  It does raise a lot of eyebrows over some decisions, but then again I think that’s not a bad idea.

Happy 2009 to all

Well here we go, 2009 a New Year and a professional Resolution I aim to keep.

“I will push Lotus Notes at every possible appropriate moment.”

This means that I am just about declaring war on those within my company who are sat in the M$ Exchange camp.  I am not going to fight a dirty tricks campaign, but I am not going away without a fight.  I will fight FUD with facts and dispell any myths that are being bandied about.

My first goal is to get a detailed justification for why we are moving to Exchange, the only justification I can’t fight is “Because it’s Microsoft” but then again if that is the justification that is put before the board then we find out if Notes’ future is secured or trashed.