IBM has claimed, Lotus Notes license number of the world has now reached 1.45 million. Including just the past 15 months, with more than 12,000 companies and organizations for the first time purchase Notes / Domino licensing.
More and more companies are using Notes / Domino platform to replace Microsoft software, IBM claimed. However, Microsoft is contrary to this view, it is that Notes / Domino users are migrated to the Microsoft platform.
Senior analyst at Ferris Research analyst Nick Shelness --- Lotus --- former chief technology officer, believes that the present attitude of Microsoft and IBM are to snatch the market that the two dominant period of intense competition. However, other users claim that the two giants closer to their own statement that he did not agree.
"Both IBM's Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, the platform for the users 'absorption' effect is very strong, and migrate between the costs are enormous, particularly from Notes to Exchange and SharePoint migration on. because if the user has a lot of Notes applications, then again in SharePoint and. Net deployment of these applications are very expensive, "Shelness said. Microsoft Exchange platform to use. NET Framework.
According to IBM's own words, in the hundred companies worldwide, more than half of the current use of Lotus Notes and Domino platform. Including more than 80 percent of large banks, and consumer products, electronics, insurance, pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies.
In addition, some enterprises have standardized according to Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange environment available to migrate to the latest version of Notes / Domino 8. These include Bank of New York Mellon, Manulife, Sherwin Williams. IBM said.
The latest Lotus Notes users, including Coca-Cola Company, Southern California Edison power company and hotel chain operators, Global Hyatt.
However, the Microsoft case for the IBM statement of objections. "Since July 2006 has been about more than 1000 million people migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange on, including Coca-Cola bottling business holding company, Blockbuster, Aviva, Aidibaoer, Ingersoll Rand, and Pang Buddy. "
Coca-Cola bottler Coca-Cola Company is the holding company's subsidiary, IBM and Microsoft, the impact statements so the content is technically accurate.
Microsoft spokesman said Coca-Cola bottling business holding company will be approximately 70 000 employees from Lotus Notes / Domino platform to migrate to Microsoft's online services, including Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. The spokesman also claimed that Ingersoll Rand will be 19,000 seats to migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft's online services.
"IBM's customers continue to transition to Exchange and SharePoint platforms, because our platform provides both pre-service model also provides hosted communication and collaboration technology," the spokesman said.
Shelness also pointed out that, in fact, Microsoft and IBM which have not compared like with like, because they do not directly a product compared with another.
Recently, in order to compete with Microsoft, IBM for Lotus Notes / Domino to the marketing strategy is a radical, it made the above statement is an extension of this marketing strategy. Earlier last month, IBM unveiled at the Macworld 2009 Conference of the Mac version of Lotus Notes 8.5. Last year in October, IBM introduced hosted versions of the Notes platform, and last September, it launched the iPhone version of Notes Ultralite.
IBM said that social computing features such as integrated Lotus Connections enterprise social networking technologies --- By contrast, Microsoft did not provide a similar solution --- and with the Mac platform for the Internet also helps to promote the users Notes / Domino platform acceptance.
Microsoft spokesman for IBM said the social networking technology is also skeptical. "In the enterprise social software market, SharePoint has a 34 percent market share," the spokesman said. "As part of the investment in collaboration technology, Microsoft has done a lot of computing in social work, and also integrates Web 2.0 technologies such as the Wiki and the Blog and the combination of social computing."