New Lamps for Old
The Register has an interesting op-ed about Ray Ozzie and what's to come from Microsoft in regards to IBM's Lotus Notes.
Microsoft’s campaign represents the company's latest attempt to unseat Notes as companies' choice of corporate messaging and collaborative backbone. Microsoft spent much of the 1990s launching code migration wizards to move users of Lotus Development's Notes software to its, then, new Exchange Server and Outlook.
Capossela said things are different this time around, though, as Microsoft is preaching a message of co-existence with Notes instead of rip and replace.
"We will be getting customers to build [new applications and services] using SharePoint rather than Lotus Notes or Workplace and keep Lotus Notes in maintenance mode." Capossela said.
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