January 24th, 2006
DominoPower: Migration to Microsoft: Look before you leap
Nigel Cheshire sums up the folly of Microsoft’s
migration efforts in one simple paragraph:
If you are
considering a migration from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft, I want you
to think about a few things before making the leap. The development languages
don’t mesh, the document store is different, and the general working environments
are quite different as well. If anything, Microsoft’s new application analyzer
will tell you how difficult it will be to migrate from Lotus Notes/Domino
to a Microsoft solution.
and he has taken a look at what
Microsoft is really offering:
Microsoft provides no software
to help businesses migrate away from their customized Notes/Domino applications,
which is at the heart of what the Notes/Domino platform is all about. To
reproduce a typical Notes/Domino application’s feature set on the Microsoft
platform would involve a total rewrite — a truly expensive proposition.
Customers need to fully investigate the effort involved before they sign
up for this proposition.
This is the fallacy of Microsoft’s
“Notes Compete” effort. Migrate mail? Yeah, that’s
possible, in either direction. We’ve seen companies go to Exchange,
we’ve seen companies go to Domino. But the apps? Notes and
Domino offer a unique technology toolset that hasn’t been duplicated, by
Microsoft or anyone else. That’s why Paul
Mooney saw that none of his company’s apps could be migrated.
That’s why the
beta tool has been pulled off the Microsoft website.
And that’s why these conversations are only even possible with a
political agenda — anyone looking at it objectively wouldn’t ever bother.
Link: DominoPower:
Migration to Microsoft: Look before you leap
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Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on January 24, 2006, 9:52am
