Working for one of the largest global users of Lotus Notes, it’s been frustrating as an architect over the last few years to see IBM lost in wilderness since they aquired Notes and uncertain what to do with it.  I’m fortunate to have some visibility on upcoming Notes products around Notes 8 and beyond and I’m not revealing anything much when I say that at last, there seems to be a strong direction for the platform again.

Erica Driver of Forrestor research has an excellent article about Sametime 7.50 / 7.51.  If you are at all interested in Lotus Notes futures and can spend some corporate cash, it’s worth the $399US in my opinion, although my copy was already paid for.  It all points to the buss being back.

When a company like News Gator (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and long time Outlook afficiando’s) release a client for Lotus Notes, well things are really looking up!

While it may not be a Microsoft killer yet, there are now good reasons for companies with Lotus Notes to continue to invest in the product, and those who have a heavy IBM / Websphere Portal environment to move to it.

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