IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources

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Post by Dotnaught » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
theregister.com

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Post by throwawayboise » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

Any IBM-ers here who can comment?

My workplace did a migration from inhouse Exchange to cloud-housted Outlook and it was pretty smooth, but you'd expect that since it's one Microsoft product to another and probably a migration that MS has helped facilitate thousands of times.

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.

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Post by 422long » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:31 PM UTC

First job out of college used Notes. Hated it.

Since then I've personally declined new work where Notes was the standard.

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Post by throwawayboise » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:34 PM UTC

422long wrote: post #4

First job out of college used Notes. Hated it. Since then I've personally declined new work where Notes was the standard.

Is this the same as (or based upon) the old Lotus Notes?

Had that at a company where I worked in the 1990s. It was kind of new/novel and interesting then. We used it mainly as a knowledge base and for internal forums on various subjects. IIRC required an OS/2 server to run, which was the only OS/2 box in the company.

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Post by cronix » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:35 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.

IBM isn't considered a tech company?

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Post by dharmab » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:35 PM UTC

cronix wrote: post #6

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.

IBM isn't considered a tech company?

That's the joke

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Post by throw7 » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:35 PM UTC

So a migration from Lotus Notes to what? It wasn't clear to me in the article.

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Post by 123pie123 » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.

> Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies.

It's not as straight forward as that,

Notes can be used as a really good (if designed properly) work flow application that has (or had) much more functionallty than Outlook. Email is only a part of Notes

I suspect IBM are just realising this

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Post by pgtan » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.

Ha! I saw a very big multinational F500 company completely reorganize its AD, because users were unable to login to Office 365 with their standard accounts user@.company.com. After weeks of complete disasters the company decided to switch to user@company.com just for O365.

It's a hard life as microserf.