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Lotus vs. SharePoint
daria42 writes "An article at ZDNet pits the software collaboration kings against each other. IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino 7 goes head to head against Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2003. 'If you don't have the resources dedicated to developing collaborative applications, don't have complex application or integration requirements or if you are focused on the Microsoft solution stack, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is going to be hard to beat,' the review concludes."
I can say as a company we are moving away from Novell to a sharepoint solution. ( By the way, Groupwise is closer to Exchange, so far as products go ). Right now we make fairly extensive use of iFolder for our Extranet and hands down Sharepoint has it beat. First of, the stability of Novell is something horrid compared to Windows 2003 ( never though id say that... ). Yet, since about Netware 6, its brutal the number of critical crashes that occur.
On top of that, Novell just can't compete feature wise. Versioning? Nope. Easy self service? Nope. Office Integration? Nope. On top of that the Sharepoint searching and meta data aspects just trounce Novell hands down. Frankly I would figure within 3 years we will be Novell free ( its File & Print now, used to be much more ). Im not going to lose any sleep over that either.
The biggest flaw to date with Sharepoint 2003, is that lack of workflow. You end up buying something like Captaris Teamplate, or K2 Workflow within months of a purchase. There is basic document approval built into Sharepoint, but its almost useless.