Notes and Domino peaked in 2000. It somehow managed to balance the many needs of a business, including the email stack, workflow, database, and configuration, i

Notes and Domino peaked in 2000. It somehow managed to balance the many needs of a business, including the email stack, workflow, database, and configuration, into a distributed platform that was comprehensive and at the time, clearly superior to Exchange/Sharepoint. The architecture was elegant but required a major improvement in 2000 due to performance woes and a web server that had been grafted on. Unfortunately IBM attempted to migrate all Lotus and Domino users onto their Websphere platform, which, despite engendering a worthy IDE (Eclipse), was in no way a true replacement to Lotus Notes/Domino. Microsoft also mustered all their uncompetitive practices of the day to destroy this rising threat that at the time had more business email accounts than Exchange. A real shame, because Sharepoint was an absolute dumpster fire in comparison.