Thursday, July 14, 2016

Lotus Notes vs SharePoint


Lotus Notes
SharePoint
Notes/Domino comes with a mail server
SharePoint, you need to add Exchange
person can quite easily build impressive forms-based processing in Notes/Domino
need a .NET developer much more quickly than you'd think
it's hard to get your Domino applications past the initial "rapid prototyping" stage -- most custom applications in Domino

Notes/Domino does have development tools, they're comparatively basic.
SharePoint is much more developer friendly; Visual Studio is a very capable development environment
the Lotus NSF "databases" are not relational. There is no way to do a JOIN with Lotus "tables" (they're called "views" in Domino).
By contrast, SharePoint stores everything in MS SQL; it's really easy to do lookups within a list field.
It's impossible to do a look-up in a list field to another field in another list
it's really easy to do lookups within a list field.
it's hard to get your Domino applications past the initial "rapid prototyping" stage -- most custom applications in Domino start out as something that's quickly whipped up, and then keeps being modified



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