A crushing defeat

Wow I lost my tennis match last night, my first loss in a long time and I am not happy about it.  I was a bit to tentative and not as sharp as I wanted to be, but take nothing away from my opponents they played well and deserved the W.

I recieved a comment on yesterdays blog from Ed Brill.  I have all the respect in the world for Ed and have read his blog for about a year off and on.  So I will try to be more exacting as to why I dislike notes.  First, its tough to staff Notes Administrators at an SMB.  The cost is about 30% greater than an Exchange Adminstrator and most are not well versed enough to tackle other system administrator duties especially in a window environment.  Second, users just dont like the GUI its not intuitive and has alot of real quirky things (ever try to print from a preview screen?).  I agree with Ed in that Lotus 8 is much much better, but the milk is already sour, no one wants to hear about what is on the way anymore.  Third, the Lotus DBs corrupt all the time, easy to fix but an administrative nightmare.  Fourth, the use of Lotus as a development platform is not a favorite of the development community when  compared to a LAMP, .NET etc.  Fifth, the local clients are real heavy thus making them real slow over busy wan connections.

This is just a short list of what turns most of us off to Lotus, and I do hope and even see continued improvement but its still, as a mail system, playing catchup to exchange