Tuesday 27 August 2002

From Infoworld : Notes is dead NOTES IS DEAD. Kaput, pushing up daisies, canceled, an ex-application (apologies to Monty Python and Hollywood intellectual property gatekeeper Jack Valenti for appropriating material from the classic "Dead Parrot" sketch). According to police reports, Notes was killed by inventor Ray Ozzie, 45. Ozzie entered the Notes space on the Ides of August -- Aug. 15, 2002 -- armed with Version 2.1 of the Groove collaboration platform and its new peer-to-peer e-mail functionality. Notes, already weakened by years of assault by Microsoft and its Exchange/Outlook team, was finished off in recent days by Ozzie's commandeering of another growing collaboration model: Weblogs. So, should you consider moving to a completely Notes-based environment, or should you keep your options open? I would go for the last option, and not go for a single solution. Groove is pretty mature by now, and weblogging software is also getting there. And yes, you can base it all on Domino... the only point is the rest of the world is moving in different directions, and the word from IBM is not all positive. And of course, the move to R6 is an option to consider: should you upgrade, or shouldn't you? The advantages are not yet clear: for now it seems more like a "minor" upgrade, especially since IBM pulled the integral JSP support. I, for one, am going to counsel the company I work for to wait at least until the first "point" release comes out. Sounds like using a Microsoft product... 11:21:12 AM