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IBM is in the process of removing the Lotus brand from everything. This 'Greenhouse' is a test bed for the "Lotus" community and hasn't gone through the rebrand
by omh 15y ago
IBM is in the process of removing the Lotus brand from everything. This 'Greenhouse' is a test bed for the "Lotus" community and hasn't gone through the rebranding yet.
I'm sure that when they release this properly it won't have the dreaded L-word anywhere near it.
This has been a long-running saga within the IBM/Lotus community for years now. It's obviously a toxic brand, but it's taken them a while to start clearing it out. I think they're still working out how to brand the next version of Lotus Notes.
(Yes, Lotus Notes is still widely used. Reluctant Notes/Domino admin here).
- bwarp 15y agoThat's only because people are widely "stuck with it". I've not seen a single organisation in the last 10 years that has done a new deployment. It's always been hanging on by a thread, usually along with some Netware and occasionally DEC estate and some serious 10base2 mileage. "We'll fix it one day" etc.
- omh 15y agoI looked at migrating when we did our last e-mail server upgrade, but the cost of moving to Exchange vs upgrading Notes just wasn't worth it. The latest version isn't so bad for general groupware type stuff. For a new deployment I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole though.
- hello_moto 15y agoThis is what I heard as well from consultants: moving from Notes to Exchange don't yield more benefit or safe money.
- bwarp 15y agoI bet that was heard from Notes consultants...
- hello_moto 15y agoHe does both Notes and Exchange including migrations to or from and vice versa.