Future evolution of Notes and the "D" word

Chris Connor  April 22 2010 04:04:19 AM

Thought I would post some brief comments after reading Paul Mooney and others comments on the Lotus platform and it's future prospects. I have read some excellent posts and comments about where we are at just now and interesting suggestions on how the Client and the platform in general can move forward.

I echo Paul's concerns in that by constantly talking about the "D" word and the Lotus platform. Been developing and working with Notes for 15 years and I have heard "the D word" constantly being muttered by competitors more than I could be bothered to count. And yet here we are in 2010.....

This is something that we have to move away from. The battle is not about "saving notes", how Notes is "the D word" or not "the D word". It is about delivering value with xPages, composite applications, RIAs, integration with different platforms, mobile solutions with BES / Traveller, cutting costs with symphony, buying into the vulcan roadmap / vision, a strong partner / customer community, proven applications as the backbone of business, new marketing efforts, OpenNTF, IBM Lotus Q1 turnover being up etc....etc.....etc......

Pause - breathe....

Just as Paul said our customers and competitors are reading and using this. Customers have been listening to "the D word" for as long as we can remember. Lets highlight the shortcomings in our competitors strategies and products and promote where we are now with the product and where we are going.

Let's hear more about the new wins such as Panasonic. Let's blog and talk more about the individual case studies of people using the platform today - there are many out there. These are critical applications that run small, medium and large businesses. We need to talk and promote our collaboration solutions that installed in our multi-national companies. Every application (large or small) we deploy proves a business case for successful investment in Lotus technology - let's get that message out there!!

All my customers that I have spoken to that attended Lotusphere or heard the message from me are impressed with the vision - this has led to M$ doors being closed (admittedly they were not that open anyway - they actually WANTED to hear that message - people were curious though about the whispering "D word").

It is still early days in our new future - I can personally say that this new message IS bringing in new business.

Let's kill "the D word" - we are not helping ourselves when using it!!

Let's start blogging and writing about what we KNOW works well.

 
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