Microsoft Migration blog wakes up

We are still alive and kicking is the word, posted recently over at the 'Tools for Moving to a Microsoft Collaboration Platform' blog (which of course is aimed at moving sites from Notes/Domino over to Microsoft technologies. They say there are some announcements on the way in the next couple of days, which is interesting timing given that Lotusphere is currently underway. Interesting times indeed.

I'm more of the opinion that there is more value in vendors who are willing to talk about options for co-existence rather than just push a migration path. The company I'm currently working with has moved away from offering any Domino consulting, and personally I'm doing about 95% ASP.NET Development (with 5% Domino, which is mostly maintenance type stuff). However I still can't see any reasons to think about migrating away from our Domino server. It does what we need, and does it well, even if some of the applications that reside on it aren't incredibly 'sexy' or 'Web 2.0'. On top of this, I have a hell of a lot of my personal data organised in various Notes Databases, and it's going to be that way for quite some time. There's just nothing out there which allows me to do what I'm already doing without a lot of work - and it'd just be migration for migrations sakes. Microsoft is going to have to create some incredibly impressive tools in order to make some companies even begin to consider a full migration, and even then it's going to be a fairly expensive looking project. On the other hand, co-existence is a concept that pretty much every company can benefit from.

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