Michael Sampson: C'mon IBM

Michael Sampon has an interesting post today on IBM’s place in the market and Notes/Domino – “IBM Needs to Get the Gloves Off”.

I agree wholeheartedly with everything that is said, but it actually demonstrates the IBM problem.

Michael makes a number of statements and asks a few questions. Let’s start with “Is Quickplace good enough and flexible enough to take on SharePoint?” That’s an interesting question because the problem with that question is that IBM has at least two answer for users who might want to move to their technology away from SharePoint.

Lack of clarity is clear when you consider Michael’s request to “Enable SharePoint sites to migrate to Notes/Domino”, well actually in a the IBM portfolio Notes/Domino might not be the right answer, it depends on what they are doing with SharePoint. The answer could be Notes/Domino; it could also be QuickPlace; it could even be any one of the multitude of WebSphere components.

The conclusion is spot on: “C’mon IBM … you’ve said that you have yellow gloves and you’re willing to take the gloves off, but … I don’t see you doing it yet.”

Tags: Notes,Domino,Quickplace,IBM,Websphere