A few months ago, Vowe published his 10 common beliefs in the Domino community.

So, in the interest of equal time, here is my list for the Microsoft community:


1. It is fair and valid to compare Notes R5 to Outlook 2007.

2. If a feature of Notes does not work as expected, Notes sucks. If a feature in Outlook does not work as expected, the user needs training.

3. Microsoft is the only valid choice because they will "still be around"

4. Everyone wants Outlook

5. Sharepoint is free

6. MS Office Open XML (OOXML) should be an international standard

7. There have been no updates to Lotus Notes since R5

8. Microsoft has 98% of the messaging/collaboration market

9. Exchange clustering works just fine, thank you

10. The LotusNotessucks website is/was a good, accurate reference