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Yellow and Black is Back!

Ben Erickson  April 9 2019 07:33:41
Ben Erickson
Here's a story I've been following since the middle of last year 2018. But first, some background. I was a junior network engineer working in Los Angeles for a small IT consulting business. The year was 2004. I was introduced to a collaboration platform that wasn't Microsoft Exchange (version 2000 was most common back then). Unlike Exchange, it was solid. It was reliable. And it went beyond replacing email, shared calendar, tasks, and instant messaging. It was an application platform, and it was web-enabled. It was how we ran our business and it was way before its time. And best of all, did I mention it wasn't Microsoft Exchange? It was Lotus Notes and Domino. They even had some really great TV commercials back then as well.





Then the marketing department seemingly went into hibernation. There was still tons of innovation going on and new versions on a constant cadence but only us insiders seemed to know about it. Then came V10 on 10/10/2018. (Get it? V10 on 10/10?) Some much needed improvements were made on the server end, making it more robust and powerful. The sale of the platform to HCL (who had done the development work for V10) was announced. And somebody woke up the marketing department. Yellow and black is the new yellow and black!

Do you remember The Princess Bride scene where Miracle Max gives Inigo and Fezzik an education on "mostly dead"? Well, plenty of internet pundits have proclaimed Lotus Notes/Domino's death throughout those silent years. But here's the funny thing- it never died. The innovation and sales continued, even as marketing slept. And now, with the transition from IBM to HCL, someone seems to have pumped some air into the marketing department's lungs.

 

A couple of days ago they even published a new commercial to youtube in the same spirit as the old-school commercials. Check it out. Lotus Notes/Domino marketing is back, baby!



And all along it's been the premier, constantly innovating, Mail, Calendaring, Instant Messaging, Team Collaboration, and App Platform for business. Many of us partners and resellers and our clients never left (this blog, our CRM, Wiki, and many other apps we use every day run on Lotus Domino!). In another post, I'll talk about all of the new features and under-the-hood improvements that have come in V10 and what's on the radar for V11. Stay tuned!


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