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Eventually I got tired of that and reverted to the Dark Side. (Or is it Yellow Side now?)

No, the Yellow Side is Lotus Notes

IBM seems to think otherwise: http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibms-2011-tech-trends-report

I think we can all agree that IBM is catering to the corporate sector.

IBM seems to think that Android is going to have plenty of developer also.

http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibms-2011-tech-trends-report

While not open source, it is now very competititvely priced. You might check out the licensing terms of the new IBM XWork server, which is nothing but Domino server with a fixed annual cost of around $2K:

The Notes/Domino product line generates somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars a year for IBM in pure software sales (not services.) It's also recorded 15 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, and has grown by over 50% since 2004.

You can see more at the long-running blog of Ed Brill, former worldwide head of sales for Notes/Domino, and currently Director of End-User Messaging and Collaboration. He just finished a year-in-review post http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/2008-the-blogging-year-in-review

Notes isn't dead. 10% year to year growth from 2007 - 2008. 140 million licenses.

Active number of Notes seats growing year to year

Contact your IT department and have them setup your Notes client to run from a local mail & calendar database the same way Outlook does. Should give you the best performance. Regarding Comcast: According to several reports from several different persons (eg. here: http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/search.htm?opendocument&q=comcast ) the problem does exist and cause INTERRUPTION not slowness.

Actually IBM is one of the more open companies when it comes to allowing blogging by its employees. A while back I came across their corporate guidelines and I thought they were pretty impressively open.

They're available here; this was one of the top results when I just Googled for "IBM Blogging Policy."

The summary of the policy is only 11 lines long...really it seems to boil down to "think about what you say, don't be a dick, and make sure people know you're not the Company."

Wish more places were that forward-thinking. (Big Blue ... forward thinking? My, times have changed.)

Quite a prolific blogger, and very good at it too, his blog is at http://www.edbrill.com/ and he talks about this announcement here http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notes -on-linux-announcement?opendocument&comments

Quite a prolific blogger, and very good at it too, his blog is at http://www.edbrill.com/ and he talks about this announcement here http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notes -on-linux-announcement?opendocument&comments

http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/hannovers creenshots.html

Check out this blog entry for Ed Brill (Business Unit Executive at IBM), scroll past the first section: Ed Brill's blog.

Also, check out the Screen shot

Check out this blog entry for Ed Brill (Business Unit Executive at IBM), scroll past the first section: Ed Brill's blog.

Also, check out the Screen shot

Gotta chime in on this one. Lotus is by far the strongest collaborative platform available with products range from the Notes/Domino to Quickplace (hidden gem)and Sametime.

I work in a Domino shop (with good programmers) and its frankly amazing how far the platform can be pushed.
Think of it this way. Each Notes user is sitting there with a secure client for accessing any apps they need, whether they are native Domino, or plugged in to another system (SAP, Peoplesoft etc). The path forward will make this even easier.

The way ahead looks good with IBMs approach to making Notes a plug-in the their next-gen Eclipse-based platform. Existing Domino apps will run and the "client" will be fully extensible.
Sametime 7.5 looks killer.
I think one of IBMs major issues is marketing and personally am glad they are taking it seriously under Sarjit and Mike Rhodin's leadership. The "Gloves are off" campaign is a good start.

Product naming is another issue. Lotus's offering that competes with Sharepoint is called "Workplace Services Express". WTF does that mean? Who's ever heard of that product? (It's pretty neat by the way).
There's a good Ed Brill presentation that I'd suggest you see called "The Boss Loves Microsoft". Failing that you can at least download the slides (pdf 7.5mb). http://www.edbrill.com/storage.nsf/00d4669dcd9456a 386256f9a0056e956/42cf7602df53917586257108000261d8 !OpenDocument
You can watch the 2006 Lotusphere opening session webcast here in rm or wmv format http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/events/go vfor.nsf/wdocs/generalsessionwebcast/. The Sametime 7.5 and Hannover (Notes 8) parts are good.
My advice is to skip through the Jason Alexander into..it's pretty lame. Slides about Hannover and beyond are available here http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/ByDateNJ/0 317040CF37680FD8525711F0061CB5F/$FILE/Lotusphere%2 0INV101%20January%202006.pdf?OpenElement Even if you hate Lotus, check some of the above out.
It pays to know your enemy ;-)

They have, the new client is called Hannover named after the location of the IBM technical forum where it was first announced:

http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/hanno ver----announcing-the-next-post-7.0-version-of-lot us-notes

It is based on the Java Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) used by Workplace the Notes C++ code has been rewritten as an Eclipse plugin. The code can then be compiled to work on any platform that eclipse runs on; Linux, AIX , Mac OSX and Windows. I think the next Notes client release which will be based on Hannover is due later this year as Notes V7.0.

Sametime was 5 years ahead of it's time about 7 years ago. It had been neglected somewhat in terms of development since then, and is 2 years behind the times so it needs to be brought up-to-date. Fortunately that is exactly what IBM has done. At Lotusphere in Orlando last month they showed Sametime 7.5 which will be out later this year, it is a complete rewrite of the client end (which needed it) it is now based on the Eclipse framework and is extensible and cross platform, it supports graphical emoticons etc and looks slick. Take a glance here: http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/st75s hots.html also worth noting is that the meanwhile plugin for Gaim which supports Sametime servers will be part of the core Gaim distribution, so Gaim will work out of the box with Sametime servers including encryption. Encryption in Sametime is client-server, so basically connection encryption, but client-client encryption should be quite easy to implement as a third party extension if it isn't included in 7.5 (I don't know if it is), but then you would not get server-side logging, which depending on requirements could be good or bad.

IBM is rolling out GTK based Linux Notes client called the "Notes Plugin" which will be a part of their Lotus Workplace product. This article says the Linux Notes Plugin will be available later this year and this blog discusses its demo taking place at Lotusphere 2006 this week.

The keynote is available at the Sametime Forum.
The Sametime part kicks in at page 31ish.

Ed Brill also has some stuff up (including the sametime song).

I almost hate to point this out, knowing Slashdot's general attitude toward Lotus Notes, but the new version (8) is going to have a native Linux client. IBM says they're commited to releasing full-featured clients for Linux and OSX as well as Windows. That gives about 45% of the corporate world a valid option. This new version is based on the Eclipse platform and seems to be a complete rewrite of the Notes client. Looks pretty shiny: http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/hannovers creenshots.html Let the flaming begin....

There're doing it. I refer you to:

http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/hannover- ---announcing-the-next-post-7.0-version-of-lotus-n otes?opendocument&comments

You would think all the people clicking through to my blog from the opening link of this article would stay around long enough to learn something about the current state of Notes.

Ed Brill
http://www.edbrill.com/

You are Not paying attention Notes 6.5 has won widespread awards and acclaim, but not amongst you uber-hackers sitting in mom and dad's basement, so this kind of completely ignorant crap gets modded as insightful. Such is slashdot.

Notes is moving to an Eclipse based client which WILL support linux, it's only a matter of time.

http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/11102 004051126PMEBRV7P.htm

Surprisingly, I don't see this issue having been raised in any of the previous threads, though I mentioned it on my blog about a week ago. The T226 replacement for the T68i is not a triband phone. It operates only on 850/1900MHz, the two American only GSM networks. Since I bought my T68i precisely to be a worldphone, going back to two separate phones to get decent domestic service is going to be a PITA. I might as well switch....T-Mobile perhaps? or wait for the Cingular merge? My friend vowe also notices that international travellers to the US will now have to upgrade to quad-band phones...