To upgrade or not to upgrade…
That is the question. Whether it nobler to banish Lotus Notes,
or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Microsoft-fications.
Or to take arms against a sea of broken Sharepoint sales promises
And, by opposing, end them. To change, to sleep
No more – and by a sleep to say no end to 3AM emergency support calls
The heartache and the thousand open support tickets
That the techie is heir to – ‘tis a consummation of all free work time
Devoutly to be wished a return to collaboration. To die, to sleep
To sleep, perchance to dream of a perfect solution. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of software death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this Lotus coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the aspect of cost
That makes a calamity of so long a software life cycle.For who would bear the whips and scorns of software change,
Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s Google Apps,
The pangs of despised Microsoft, the law’s of IBM’s delay,
The insolence of BPOS, and the spurns of Lotus Live
That patient merit of the unworthy user,
When he himself might see his own complaints anew
With a bare software design? Who would know what to do,
To grunt and sweat under a weary product lifecycle change,
But that the dread of something after change,
The undiscovered problems and management finger wag
No traveller returns, puzzles the of the pink slip, the look for a new job
And makes us rather bear those software change ills we have
Rather than fly to other solutions that we know not of?
Thus software change doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of the sales pitch
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thoughtlessness,
And the enterprise doth do as it wants … for good of the moment
With this regard their plans turn awry,
And lose the name of planned action.—Software you know!
The fair Lotus! Leap to mine aid
Be all my hopes remembered