It’s the same old song and dance…

And once again, my clients, long time Lotus Notes users, are talking about moving to Exchange.  Their reasons is the same old song and dance: we hate Notes; our users hate Notes; we don’t use Notes for anything but email, so why keep it; we don’t use any other IBM products; nobody uses Notes anymore…  [...]

Has bad {fill in blanks} become the norm?

Bad driving, bad language, bad manners, bad behavior. Have all those things become a norm in our society?
Drivers, myself included, get irritated by responsible drivers: those that come to a complete stop, those that obey posted speed limits on the highway, those that yield to merging cars.
We don’t pay heed to bad language or [...]

Would you become a new Lotus Notes administrator TODAY?

The other day I received an email with the subject that asked “Is there future in Lotus Notes?”. The email was from one my friends who works as a PC technician/Help Desk support. His company uses Lotus Notes and he was given an opportunity to attend training to become a Lotus Notes and [...]

90% of success is showing up

I believe it was Woody Allen who said that 90% of success is showing up.  If you’re not showing up on your blog, nobody else is.  Stale blogs are about as appetizing as stale beer accompanied by a stale slice of pizza.  Yummy!
I have allowed my blog to become stale and have no one to [...]

Google alerts on Lotus and Microsoft

I’ve been using Google Alerts for quite a long time to keep up-to-date on new posts and such as related to Lotus Notes, Quickr, SameTime and other members of the Lotus family.  What struck me was how little hits some of these products, i.e. Quickr, generate.  For comparison’s sake I decided to add alerts on [...]

Lotus Domino has better features than Exchange

That’s nearly verbatim what my client told me yesterday.  This client just completed migration from Exchange to Lotus Notes and that’s what their administrator — a former Exchange administrator, an MCSE — told me in a meeting.
Wow!!!  That was very cool.

PSC hosts a Lotus/IBM blog from Russia

Last week PSC expanded the list of blogs that we host by adding yet another Lotus-related IBM blog — Lotuscube. This blog is maintained by a couple of authors and generally talks about anything and everything as related to the various IBM software, mainly the products that come under the Lotus pillar.  This is not [...]

To sleep or to blog? That is the question

I think I have finally figured out why I don’t blog as much as some people. I approach blogging as somewhat of a creative process. My “best” thoughts and ideas come to me just around midnight. It’s becoming an every day dilemma: to sleep or to blog. Some days, like for [...]