Why doesn’t Notes/Domino play well with others?

Denny Russell  June 6 2008 03:11:33 PM

Let me re-qualify that headline and ask the question a little better.  I just had a call with a customer and they explained how they were switching to Exchange later this summer.  So the obvious question was asked and I was surprised by the answer.  Not because it was so off the wall, but more because it seems to be a common answer as of late.

"All of our internal applications don't integrate well with Notes.  They do however work great with Outlook and Sharepoint."

So why is that?  Why don't more applications integrate with Domino easily?  

Case in point.  Look at LinkedIn.
 
Now I know I can export my contacts from Notes to a .csv but how many average users do?  Yet, no mention of it anywhere other than the icon on the screen but the instruction state no where how to do it.




So is it really an issue of products not integrating or is users not understanding?  And what can be done to make address this?

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