New opportunity – moving from Exchange to Lotus Notes

It is not often that I get to talk to companies looking to move from Exchange to Lotus Notes.  Every such conversation is a special treat to me.  So when I had one this week, I felt that I should mention it.
A partner of ours engaged me in a conversation with their client.  The client [...]

Why do I care what email client you use?

When Ed Brill posts an entry like one from December 13 (Link), it sparks too much thought in my head to fit it all into a comment.
It’s almost 2009, why are we still fighting over what email client a user wants to use?  Email is ubiquitous, that’s what standards are all about.  POP3 or IMAP [...]

Upgrading Exchange vs. Upgrading Domino

We’re going through an upgrade of our Exchange environment to the latest and greatest Exchange 2007. Yes, I have to admit that for some strange reason folks in our Microsoft practice keep want to be using Outlook instead of Lotus Notes. I don’t understand their reasoning as they have to keep both clients: [...]

On lack of Lotus Notes integration

When talking to customers, one of the arguments against Lotus Notes that comes up time and time again is the lack of integration options.  There are many examples.  Book a flight on-line or buy tickets to an event and there’s likely to be a link on the page to add this event or this flight [...]

Bad news, good news

We are continuing to bring you the news from the Lotus Notes/Exchange Chicago front. I wish I could say that it was all quiet on the Chicago front. But the battle rages on.
One of PSC clients has just completed migrating all of their email users from Lotus Notes to Exchange. They are [...]

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.