Hello Friends,I wanted to know about Lotus Notes future as Most of the Lotus Notes Project are converting from Lotus Notes to SharePoint or .net.
Can any one from IBM tell us. Will I continue with Lotus Notes to switch to SharePoint.
Pawan
Subject: Not sure where You are active, but I have not seen a single project going that way, here.
(I am not saying there is none, either).
Would you mind to share information? (Which countries, what size of customers, what areas are these customers active in, do they leave Notes completely or just for some projects…?)
Subject: I agree with original poster
In my region of the U.S. there are literally zero Notes jobs except for one or two die hard small consulting firms - the last of their kind here. I’m a consultant and every single Notes shop in the three major metro areas we cover have either asked us about migrating to MOSS or have already started it themselves. None of them have put any effort into looking at Notes 8 or Quickr. SharePoint jobs are RED hot and pay extremely well, even in this pitiful job market. SharePoint is in exactly the same position Notes was back in the late 90’s. If you are a Notes-only professional and care anything about maintaining your career, you need to do everything in your power to learn as much about SharePoint as possible. If nothing else, at the very least, learn how to integrate Notes with SharePoint.
Subject: Thanks - still not visible here.
What you descripe must be tough.
There have been tough years here, too, but last 18 months or so were busy (no extraordinary good vages, but at least acceptable, and, based on quite some overtime, a good income).
Where the current banking /automotive drama will end, I can’t really estimate, but it will definitely hurt to some extend. - Still there is work for the next quarter, too (and I can rarely ever say anything for a timeframe beyond this - but I was planing for automötive work for 2009 last year, and I guess it just won’t happen - so this will mean loosing a few hundred hours of payed work - and the question is, if this means just no overtime, or a rearly bad business - I can’t answer at this point).
Besides this, I do invest in Traveller and XPages these days, Webservices seam to become more important, and I hope for Symphony related projects. Linux and Java is on my list, too. - So I am not at all focusing on Microsoft right now. DDE (Desginer on Eclipse) and a bunch of other things going on make me hope that Notes will remain big for many years - yes, there is problem areas but there is quite some room for another round of bigger growth, too.
Lets hope for the best.
Subject: Lotus Notes vs. SharePoint
You are right. Lot’s of customers are moving from between Lotus and Sharepoint - both ways.
I am organizing courses in both Lotus Notes and SharePoint, and I am programmer and administrator in both systems.
I do have customers moving from SharePoint to Lotus Notes as well. I have made some statistics here http://www.zoomtek.dk/sharepoint-kurser.html
But after Domino 8.5.x was released the market for Lotus is stabil.