Real IT: Lotus Domino Vs. Exchange and Microsoft´s Tricks

A company on Exchange 5.5 considers Exchange2003, Domino 7, and Oracle Collab Suite as alternatives for replacement:Atthis point, for me it's partly a gut feel that has sold me and the realizationthat Notes will be more secure, more reliable, and will give better optionsfor management of the system. These though are not great selling pointsfor our non-technical management since we have Oracle Financials and wehave Exchange - names they know! I think it will be hard for the following reasons: we have Exchange alreadywhy change, since Microsoft has a hold on the minds of management in alot of companies it makes change to another platform tough, and to be honestif the ability to create applications with Domino is the only selling pointit's not a point that will have much affect on management since it willbe tough to show them where additional applications on top of what we havewill be cost effective or beneficial for the company. I agree that we willfind it to be a great aspect in the future but right now in the minds ofmanagement it would be "vapor-ware".Funnyhow that relates to my earlierposting today about a firmthat was using Notes just for e-mail, discovered the apps side, and nowruns their whole knowledge business on Notes. Anyway, this blog entry asks for comments -- my comment is, use thisGartner article as a goodstarting point, read lotus.com/compare,and talk to some existing Notes shops.  We'll win this one hands-down.Link: RealIT: Lotus Domino Vs. Exchange and Microsoft's Tricks>