Rational thinking

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With the completion of IBM’s acquisition of Rational last week (http://www-3.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/mmaa5jrkec?OpenDocument&Site=software), I would like to canvass some opinions from this community regarding the expected impact to Lotus software. Specically, I would like to get a feel for how appropriate it is to use Rational tools (especially RUP) in traditional Lotus software projects using products like Domino, QuickPlace, Workflow and Sametime. Some questions:

Does anyone have some experiences to share?

How easy/hard has it been to adopt Rational tools in Lotus environments?

What tools have you been able to adopt?

At what point do you have to stop because the Rational tools don’t apply to Domino-thinking?

Do you expect Rational to only apply to J2EE solutions?

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Subject: Rational thinking

The View carried a pair of articles about using the RUP methodology back in 2000. AFAIK that’s far as you can go with the tools.

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Subject: Rational thinking

We’ve been using Rational for our design for a major Notes project.

In the beginning it was quite hard to grasp the concepts and model it for a Notes solution, but after a session with a Rational representative who echoed The Views articles opinion, it all seemed a lot clearer.

So yeah, it works pretty well, although it is a lot different than simply sitting down and coding with no real design per say, and the overhead isn’t small.