According to the comments of many people it would appear that Lotus Notes has been daed for a very long time, even though people are still moving from Microsoft Exchange to Lotus Notes today in 2010.
Gordon Inkson left a good reminder of these sorts on comments on my blog today. I thought that I would repost it here.
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on acquisition of Lotus by IBM in 1995
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on rise of corporate intranets in 1996
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on arrival of Outlook ‘97 in 1997
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on announcement of Workplace 2003/2004
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on rise of Web 2.0 from 2004 on
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on global uptake of Sharepoint 2006 on
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on success of Cloud offerings from Google et-al 2008 on
“Notes is dead” – World+Dog on demo of Google Wave in 2009
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Sometimes I keep asking myself what the definition of dead is for a software product.
Is it when the vendor finally announces it EOL?
Is it when a vendor only does cosmetic patching (like with SmartSuite)?
Is it when the competition is gaining while your product is losing?
Is it when revenues fall behind a certain amount of money?
Is it when companies move the product from strategic to legacy?
is it when Gartners says you are in the loser quadrant?
Are there generic criterias that you could use to measure if a software product is dead?
I consider Novell dead but others do not. It is still used and sold.
Just to clarify. This does not mean I am considering Notes as dead.
I’ve often wondered if there is a statistically significant correlation between people who proclaim Notes to be dead and people who claim Neil Armstrong never set foot on the moon.
@Ian Now there’s a thought
Notes is Dead! Long live Notes!