Comments on: Nokia announces Lotus Notes support for S60 smartphones

By: Coolarnie

Coolarnie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:03 +0000

20 year Old technologyyy!!!!!

Dude… Have you experienced Lotus Symphony .. ?? I think . you did not read abt lotus for last 20 years…

Way to go Nokia..

By: Hello World!

Hello World! — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:50:26 +0000

Hurray to Nokia for continuous support of the 20-year-old technology that should have been discontinued 10 years ago.

I cannot wait for it to release a command-line only phone that will provide 100% compatibility with 40-year-old IBM mainframes.

By: CS

CS — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:28:21 +0000

Just the IBM account alone would justify the development of adding Lotus notes to Nokia’s smartphone.

By: Ervel Flick

Ervel Flick — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:14:22 +0000

Lotus definitely has more than 10% market share. Something is askew in those numbers.

By: Sleepydude

Sleepydude — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:00:41 +0000

The global corporation I work for, JP Morgan Chase, uses stupid Lotus Notes. Last count before WAMU merger, they have 140,000 employees.

By: WazzuKirk

WazzuKirk — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:51:02 +0000

They still make Lotus Notes? Geez, I thought it was dead….lol

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:41:46 +0000

Actually the latest Gartner report… Gartner’s Market Share: Enterprise E-Mail and Calendaring Software… Exchange had a 47.8 percent market share to Lotus Notes 42.3 percent. The Ferris report was based on a survey of only 916 companies… mostly SMB’s (a market which IBM has never spent much energy marketing Notes to) and mostly in the North American market. I work with 3 Finnish companies on a regular basis and all 3 use Lotus Notes extensively (all 3 companies have 2-4000 seats). I personally prefer Outlook as a client but would take the Notes server over Exchange any day if I was responsible for managing it.

By: CanisMinor

CanisMinor — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:37:00 +0000

Looks to me like the BGR used the “Ferris Research” figures: http://www.robichaux.net/blog/2008/02/ferris-research-lotus-notes-has-10-marke.php

By: nick

nick — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:19:04 +0000

Agreed, how about folder support for exchange? comon’ nokia!

By: Thompson

Thompson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:45:50 +0000

IBM says 40%? Nice, they’re definitely not biased.

By: John Head

John Head — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:35:24 +0000

Gartner and IBM both list Notes as second with 40% .. those numbers are really wrong.

By: Jim Rainey

Jim Rainey — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:12:55 +0000

Having lived in both Notes/Domino and Exchange environments… well, when it comes down to it I find myself liking Notes a lot better.

This gives me even more of a reason to walk away from my WinMo phone.

Go Nokia!

P.S. Knowing my clients in Europe, nearly all of them are Lotus Notes users. I wonder who paid for that survery, MSFT?