This is becoming a broken record..... "We really like your solution, but, we are planning on moving away from Lotus Notes/Domino and as a result a Lotus based solution is not something we want to pursue."  Granted, over the last 15 years many companies have talked about moving away from Notes, but it was mostly just talk. They could not get the business case to work.  It is the frequency of hearing this that seems to have accelerated, and the number of customers who are actually doing it. Several Lotus Partners we know are  specializing in this type of work.  There is good money to be made.  Notes apps do not translate very well to other platforms, so if you are recoding it in something like .Net, then it is a long term project with a very good revenue stream.   At first I thought this was a North American trend, but I was recently in the UK visiting some prospects and I heard it again.   Ironically, or web framework comes into play in this scenario.  Moving the mail is relatively easy. There are many good tools and even the exceptions are well documented and there are work arounds in many cases. The Notes apps are another animal entirely.  The obvious solution is to web enable them, and any tool that assists with this process is a benefit. If the tool, Docova in this case, provides the majority of the UI then you are quite far down the path.  It is not a silver bullet, but it is much better than trying to web enable from scratch.   Mention this trend to some of the die hard business partners or the old school Lotus folks and they simply reiterate that this comment has always been around.  When the internet came around, everyone said Notes was dead, but it never happened.  Lotus has an installed base of xxx million seats...yadda yadda yadda.  I know all of that, but that broken record is still playing, and it seems to be gaining volume.

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Gary Walsh September 30th, 2008 11:25:21 AM