Hello,
I do understand why HCL is streamlining Sametime (Limited Use) and removing more and more Domino parts out of the product.
As a Notes and Domino customer this causes some headaches on our side because the product worked and in some way now becomes more complicated again and shows some annoying bugs like messages randomly not being shown at all (KB0097232) or appearing twice in the Notes integrated chat client (KB0079102), scrolling problems if you paste images (we have a limited group of users with Premium features enabled).
Now I do not expect HCL to change their product strategy but just want to express my concern as a small customer that after the IBM Websphere years I hoped to have some smoother sailings with the product.
I am aware that if you do not have a Domino background the product with LDAP, Jitsi, Docker, Sametime Proxy, MongoDb and Kubernetes might be more easier to handle.
At least for Limited Use I think the burden tends to become too heavy making the product less attractive even being free as in beer (best case would be customers upgrading to Premium).
Storing all user data in vpuserinfo.nsf for example was a great concept (IMHO), now it is gone.
Still I do wish all the best for HCL Sametime Limited Use and Premium.
Henning
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