Както вече IBM съобщиха в предварителните си резултати за 2008а година - Lotus нараства за 15 поредно тримесечие с двуцифрена ръст, а именно 21% спрямо същия период за миналата година. Сега в прес съобщение IBM обявават публични детаили за упсеха на Lotus.
За първи път виждам IBM да обяват публично, че Lotus Notes е техния флагман 
Това си струва да се отбележи!!!
Ето някой интересни пасажа от съобщението, които правят впечатление:
.....Among those customer wins was Lotus' largest Asian customer
engagement to date -- a major bank licensing 300,000 Lotus Notes seats
as well as Lotus Symphony, ....... Customers that chose Lotus Notes
and Domino over Microsoft in key markets included Max New York Life,
Reliance Industries, Vedanta, and Aviva in India; GD Development Bank,
Johnson Electric, HKG Environ Protect, CED, DL Cosco Shipyard in China;
Affin Bank and Trakando in Singapore; and Russian Railways in Russia....
The second quarter saw the largest historical client win for Lotus
in North America as well. A member of the so-called "big six"
accounting/consulting firms purchased more than 150,000 seats of the
entire Lotus portfolio, selecting Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Lotus
Connections, IBM Lotus Quickr and WebSphere Portal over Microsoft
Exchange and SharePoint, among other products. Other large companies
that chose Lotus Notes and other Lotus software over Microsoft products
included several leading banks in the U.S., the United Kingdom and
Germany, as well as the Australian government.
Other clients who have recently invested in Lotus Notes and other
Lotus software over the competition include consumer goods giant
Colgate-Palmolive, chemical manufacturer Ineos of Belgium, the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration, NutraFlo, Dutch Railways, Rohm Haas,
Imerys and the Salvation Army. Specifically moving to Lotus Notes 8
were CFE Compagnie d'Enterprises of France, Virginia Commonweath
University, Winsol International, The U.S. General Services
Administration, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Standard Insurance,
New York Life, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Verizon, Publishers
Printing, Hyatt Hotels, Union Pacific and Nationwide Insurance.
Този анонс на IBM определено ще помогне в борбата с Microsoft и тяхната маркетингова стратегия - Вземете си Exchange, т.к. Lotus e отживелица... Хубава отживелица споре мен
. А IBM определено ме радват с този пасаж:
"Many clients of all sizes are questioning their investments in legacy
Microsoft software products. Migrating to new versions of Microsoft
Exchange has proven to be a daunting and expensive task. Ferris
Research recently published a report (Exchange 2007 Implementation
Issues, December 2007) that indicated 70% of Microsoft customers felt
that migrating to Exchange 2007 was either "Difficult or Very
Difficult."
...legacy Microsoft software products.. - звучи добреее. Сега кой е отживелица? Явно наистина новият шеф на Lotus Software е готов да играе играта, както отбелязват и повечето коментари към статията на Ед Брил по въпроса.
Прочете целия анонс. В него има много пасжи и за другите продукти от смейството на Lotus Software, но опредлено за първи път IBM открито заявява гордостта си от Lotus Notes.... след като се опита да го затрие преди време....
