I used to love Domino, but at RJS we left in 2007 for email when our employees demanded Outlook.
And most of our customers stopped demanding output of reports to Domino databases in favor of document management or SharePoint sites.
I have talked to many customers moving to other platforms for workflow apps and Office 365 for email.
I like the NoSql spin but that should have probably happened a long time ago. Notes/Domino really was the original there.
I plan to play with V10 to see what's new but it will probably be a hard sell to draw new developers to the platform, especially since MongoDb, CouchDb, etc. all have similar flexible JSON document based structures for storing app data and can be used with any of the available web dev platforms already.
So the question is what becomes the Domino strength to set it apart, other than a legacy base ?
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 2
date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:53:01 -0400
from: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Domino On IBM i Poised For A Comeback
Paul,
Thank you. I stopped reading his articles because of his repeated
political comments, despite my requests to cease. While I firmly support
his freedom of speech I also have the freedom to get my news elsewhere as
I find political opinions in a technical magazine, or this list,
inappropriate.
That being said, we will continue to use Domino to support web
applications and numerous internal databases. However we will be
migrating all email off of Domino in the immediate future. We've inked a
deal with Office 365 and CDW for their assistance to move forward with the
migration. It was a combination of things. They let it lag too long that
it became extremely visible. The Power 9 upgrade and the fiasco with
Domino took way too long to resolve. The complexity of supporting it and
the constant database corruptions. The total lack of day 1 support for
the last few releases of IBM i, and the amount of time which dragged on
until it was finally supported went way too long.
Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1
Group Dekko
Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
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