Domino is Not Dead: Why Now Is a Good Time to Consider a New Value Proposition

I came across a really good article yesterday, which looks like it was written on Christmas Day.  Someone need to get a life!!  However I digress. 

The Article is all about Notes/Domino and and starts by giving a ringing endorsement to Notes.

I have been a Domino developer for the past 13 years, and for as long as I have been working with the platform, I am continually surprised and dismayed to have to explain to technical recruiters or interviewers what Lotus Domino is and what you can do with it. My dismay is because although there are a few key features that make Domino stand out from other application development platforms, I've heard repeatedly throughout my tenure as a Domino developer that "Domino is dead." 

Thus, I write this article to set things straight.

The Author then goes on to discuss a brief history of Notes and looks at how secure Notes is.  One quoye I love is:-


Domino servers can be configured to accept only encrypted network connections. As a result, your data is secure in transit, even when connecting over the Web. Secure transit effectively makes your Domino server network as secure as any VPN without the need for any other software or hardware. This is impressive given that Domino server has been providing transit security for free, even before VPNs were a gleam in Cisco's eyes!

Martin describes the Domino replication model say that Domino had replication way before anyone else even realised that you needed it.

He also describes Notes as "1 Platform many Languages"  I really think that this is a key feature of Notes, the ability to do programming in 1 of several languages.  The simple @ command language is great for someone who is a beginner and is very powerful all by its self.  It allows lookup of data from its own database of to other database, thus it is possible to have Notes lookup data from another Notes Db and import that data into the current databases.  You can also use the Lotus Script language, which is a superset of Visual Basic and go one right the way up to Java.  Can Exchange come even close?

This article is 1 of 3, can't wait for the rest.

You can read the whole article at this URL:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1431315