Q&A: Microsoft Courts Lotus Switchers with New Migration Tools
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Chris Capossela outlines new resources designed to help customers transition to Microsoft’s unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform and the impact this business is having on the company’s bottom line.
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 20, 2008 — Companies are making the switch to Microsoft’s unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform to help increase employee productivity, reduce IT costs and improve business processes. Microsoft and its industry partners are working to make the transition even easier. The release of an updated version of Microsoft Transporter Suite for IBM Lotus Domino along with powerful tools from Microsoft partners are easing the transition process for customers moving to Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server from IBM Lotus Notes and Domino.
PressPass caught up with Chris Capossela, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Division, to go behind the scenes and understand first hand what’s driving the transition and what is fueling this trend.
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Alan Bell Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
well I can’t say I am impressed. This isn’t an available tool. The download is a bunch of screenshots. The “custom application” is simply a standard journal.nsf template with a few cosmetic tweaks, no workflow or business logic or anything remotely complicated. The output looks rubbish, the views are not sorted correctly and it really doesn’t look anything like as nice as the start point. Why was the demo using last year’s sessions database? Would it take too long to migrate the one for this year? Wouldn’t it have been a better demonstration if a few months ago they took this years database, migrated it and put it up on a public website for all to compare the functionality? Maybe the results don’t stand up to even casual scrutiny. I am sure it is possible to migrate Domino databases to other platforms, something like Joomla with a couchDB backend might encompase a sufficient level of functionality to present similar features. I just don’t think Sharepoint has got what it takes, and that is the impression I get from this demo.
Henrik Walther Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 am
Alan,
I beleive the link in the press release is wrong. It should instead point to:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en
Cheers,
Henrik