I don't understand all the hype about Lotus Notes! Sure it lets developers create applications for a fraction of the cost in a fraction of the time of alternatives and deploy then them in minutes. OK, so it has a total cost of ownership much less than Exchange. ummm IBM make new releases of the software available much more frequently, and provides backward compatibility. But does it really matter that it doesn't lock you in to a single operating system, or web browser?

OK... So it's a cheaper, faster, more effective way of building collaboration solutions and it supports open standards? But apart from that, what else does it have? That's right... It doesn't have the hype that Microsoft can generate for its products that sucks in all those CEO's and CIO's who have somehow forgotten to protect their company's bottom line.