Why indeed!  I’ve been a IBM/Lotus Notes/Domino user since 1997 and I’ve been doing Domino admin stuff for probably 7 or 8 years.  I’ve always been comfortable with it so I’ve effectively been a proponent of it as well.  Add to that, the companies I’ve worked for relied on the Domino platform for custom applications, which made it all worth it.  Or did it?  Have I been blindly supporting a heaping pile of bullshit?  Yes, I’m afraid I have.

I recently attended Microsoft’s TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana with two of my colleagues from overseas.   During this trip I got a look at a lot of new stuff that Microsoft has to offer, and we had a lot of in-depth conversations about why we’re using the platforms we’re using, and why we shouldn’t be.  Notes/Domino was a big part of these discussions. » Read more: Why use Lotus Domino?