Despite his affinity for Notes, Bisconti is well aware of the road map that Big Blue execs have spelled out: wrapping Domino constructs inside J2EE portlets and integrating the Notes legacy with its Sametime and QuickPlace real-time collaboration products. Instead, when IT managers ask for guidance on what technology to bet on-Domino or WebSphere-they get a definitive “It depends” from Ken Bisconti, IBM vice president of messaging. Too bad IBM has not gone the route of Microsoft with Windows 98, executing a planned obsolescence masked by Suns lawsuit-mandated Java virtual machine-ectomy. Already, blogs are heating up with the latest confirmation: Notes is still dead. With LotusSphere barely two weeks away, its time once again to disinter IBMs late great Lotus Notes.
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