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| DOMINOPOWER MAGAZINE - OCTOBER 2007 |
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An interview with PC industry pioneer Bill Lyons
A little over a year ago, we ran an interview with AXS-One's Marie Patterson on email storage and retrieval. Normally, we don't like to run more than one executive interview from a company with any frequency, but when we had the opportunity to interview AXS-One CEO Bill Lyons, we jumped at the chance. Bill is a true PC industry pioneer. Back in the olden days, when the "big three" were Microsoft, Lotus, and Ashton-Tate (remember dBASE IV?), Bill Lyons was CEO of Ashton-Tate. He also was CEO of Parc Place Systems. Many of you might not have heard of Parc Place, but that was the company form to commercialize SmallTalk, a technology out of XEROX Parc that's influenced personal computers in so many different ways. So, when we had the chance to sit Bill down and pick his brain, we took it. Here, then, is our interview with Bill Lyons.
Why I STILL recommend Domino over Exchange
In the United States, it seems that the decades-long Lotus-versus-Microsoft battle is long over. Certainly, it is no longer news. Microsoft Excel has all but replaced Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Office dominates corporate desktops compared with Lotus SmartSuite, and for a variety of reasons, more IT customers in the US use Microsoft Exchange and Outlook rather than Lotus Notes and Domino. But is Domino a technology belonging to the past? With 130 million licenses sold, it's hard to make that argument. In fact, Domino is the most important alternative to Microsoft Exchange today. Messaging expert Ron Herardian makes an important case for IBM to up its marketing effort and refine its strategy.
Playing Hide & Seek with servers
Server upgrades, you gotta love 'em. It doesn't matter if you're upgrading the hardware, the operating system, or a major application like Domino. If everything goes smoothly, it's just because you haven't identified the problem yet.
Troubles with views
Here's a short piece with some tips on using Notes views programmatically from LotusScript. And it may be a first for DominoPower: it was written entirely with the Notes 8 document editor.
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