HCL Forecast: Mostly cloudy (not surprisingly)
by Richard Pajerski
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019 at 03:27PM in Technology
Be they public, private or the newly-minted "Partner-led" clouds, one
message HCL is making clear is that the future for the newly-acquired
IBM collaboration product portfolio will be all about the cloud.
Richard Jefts (General Manager, HCL Digital Solutions) has just
published here on the new approach: Update on HCL Acquisition of IBM Collaboration Portfolio (Edit March 2021: Update on HCL Acquisition of IBM Collaboration Portfolio).
It appears that the biggest impact will be on current SmartCloud Notes users who will now need to transition away from that offering to one of the new HCL cloud models. In practice, that will probably entail some form of migration back to a traditional, on-premises Domino/Portal solution (or Domino/Portal-hosted partner solution). Those who currently run on-premises applications and solutions, including Verse, will (likely) not be immediately affected.
It's good to hear mail will continue to be a core area for Domino; however, the "for the foreseeable future" is an interesting qualification that suggests it may not be for long. The tight integration of email within collaborative Notes/Domino applications won't go away but will loosen up as different messaging providers take over the role of Notes mail clients. HCL's announcement here is not surprising (or at least not shocking) and I think it strikes the right balance between managing what works well today on-premises and where much new development will be going forward: cloud.
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