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Lotus Notes migration tools available from Microsoft

At IBM's annual Lotusphere conference Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of the unified communication and collaboration innovations that are being delivered as part of the recently released Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technologies. See the full story from eWeek reporter Darryl Taft.

Ironically, Lotus Notes was created by Ray Ozzie, now Chief Software Architect and CTO at Microsoft. Ray left IBM/Lotus back in 1997 to found Groove Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005. Lotus Notes has lagged since Ray left, undergoing many changes in architecture and direction.

Lotus Notes is known to many people as IBM's email system, but the underlying system is a distributed database system with a client server synchronization architecture that makes it an interesting platform for departmental applications.

Many Lotus Notes customers wanted to migrate to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint but lacked migration tools for all the legacy Notes applications. Microsoft has introduced three new migration tools to ease the process.

Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Notes enables users to move their messaging and directory services as well as their Notes infrastructure, and move data from template-based applications to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Role-based Templates for SharePoint My Sites enable users to create customized portals for employees to find information and tools. There are templates for financial analyst, staffing specialist, administrative assistant, customer services representative, IT engineer and marketing manager.

Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 Application Templates includes sample applications known as the Fantastic 40. I believe in the old days at Lotus they called these sample apps the "Nifty Fifty".

The new migration tools, currently in beta, will be available for download from Microsoft within the next 30 days. See this site for complete details, migration resources, and news.

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Published Monday, January 22, 2007 11:36 AM by Don Dodge

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Ed Brill said:

A little disingenuous to say that Microsoft made these announcements "at Lotusphere".  The dateline on the release is Redmond, and clearly IBM is not distributing Microsoft's release to press in Orlando.
January 22, 2007 11:51 AM
 

Don Dodge said:

Ed Brill,

I am honored that you would take the time to read my blog. Good catch on that detail. I just read the eWeek story and headline, and assumed it was in Orlando. Take a look at the opening paragraph of the story...

Knocking on the door of its competition at the opening of their annual user event, Microsoft announced new tools to help IBM Lotus Notes/Domino users migrate to the Microsoft fold.

At the kickoff of IBM's annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of the unified communication and collaboration innovations that are being delivered as part of the recently released Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, said Elisa Graceffo, group product manager of Microsoft's Office Business Platform Group.
January 25, 2007 12:52 PM

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About Don Dodge

I have been in the software business for more than 20 years. I started my software career with Digital Equipment Corp, aka DEC, in the database group. I worked with 5 software start-ups over the next 12 years. Forte Software was the first multiplatform object oriented development environment. AltaVista was the first search engine on the web. Napster was the first P2P file sharing network. Bowstreet was the first web services development environment. Groove Networks was the first secure P2P collaboration platform. Now I am at Microsoft...the biggest start-up in the world... working with VC's and start-ups in the greater Boston area. The goal is to help VC's and start-ups be successful with Microsoft, and together, provide great products for our customers.
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