British entrepreneur promises Lotus Notes to cloud migration

by Volker Weber

A start-up company founded and funded by ex-Staffware CTO and board member Jon Pyke will officially launch tomorrow, promising to help companies migrate IBM Lotus Notes and other applications to the cloud, CBR has learned.

The firm’s technology promises to enable companies to automatically migrate their Lotus Notes databases and collaboration processes into more generic processes hosted in the cloud, in a common format that could be hosted on the likes of Amazon, Google or salesforce.com’s cloud platforms, Pyke told CBR ahead of the firm’s launch tomorrow.

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[Thanks, Ben]

Comments

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Paul Mooney, 2010-09-08

Couldn't put it better myself Paul. 'Squirting' applications into an xml (like) format sounds so comprehensively thought out.

Steve Castledine, 2010-09-08

Migration from Lotus Notes is really quite simple: you need to recruit a development team who understand both Notes and the target platform. Then let them go for it.

Alternatively, you can kid yourself that an off-the-shelf app will do the necessary, and throw money away…

Ben Poole, 2010-09-08

Well, you need to let the customer throw away money first. And then, when deadlines loom, you save them. Just make sure you don't forget your negotiation power.

Volker Weber, 2010-09-08

Steve, why bother with XML? Don't you remember how (aham!) easy it is to migrate away from Notes by just scraping out the HTML that Domino HTTP generates? ;-)

But as I once wrote, leaving Notes and Domino is cheap. Restoring the value that you used to have in Notes is expensive. If, on the other hand, someone does invest the many tens of millions that it would take to build tools that really do that, it seems that there's enough of market out there for it to be profitable. Of course, that's been true for quite a while now, and nobody has managed to pull it of yet.

Richard Schwartz, 2010-09-08

Interesting - the functionality in the products they are talking about almost exactly mirror some products I created about a year ago, but I don't mention the magic c-word, just SharePoint....I called my XML UDML, and is definitely not proprietary. I'll be posting more at UDML.org when I get a chance....

As for the tools, I've been thinking of open-sourcing them. Maybe it's time?

Brian Benz, 2010-09-08

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