DominoPower: Migration to Microsoft: Look before you leap

Nigel Cheshire sums up the folly of Microsoft'smigration efforts in one simple paragraph:If you areconsidering a migration from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft, I want youto think about a few things before making the leap. The development languagesdon't mesh, the document store is different, and the general working environmentsare quite different as well. If anything, Microsoft's new application analyzerwill tell you how difficult it will be to migrate from Lotus Notes/Dominoto a Microsoft solution.and he has taken a look at whatMicrosoft is really offering:Microsoft provides no softwareto help businesses migrate away from their customized Notes/Domino applications,which is at the heart of what the Notes/Domino platform is all about. Toreproduce a typical Notes/Domino application's feature set on the Microsoftplatform would involve a total rewrite -- a truly expensive proposition.Customers need to fully investigate the effort involved before they signup for this proposition.This is the fallacy of Microsoft's"Notes Compete" effort.  Migrate mail?  Yeah, that'spossible, in either direction.  We've seen companies go to Exchange,we've seen companies go to Domino.  But the apps?  Notes andDomino offer a unique technology toolset that hasn't been duplicated, byMicrosoft or anyone else. That's why PaulMooney saw that none of his company's apps could be migrated. That's why thebeta tool has been pulled off the Microsoft website. And that's why these conversations are only even possible with apolitical agenda -- anyone looking at it objectively wouldn't ever bother.Link: DominoPower:Migration to Microsoft: Look before you leap>