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IBM To Launch Enterprise Social Networking Software Called 'Lotus Connections'

IBM is keeping a dying dinosaur in Lotus Notes and Domino. If you've worked in a company using Notes for email client and also have worked in a company using Outlook and Exchange with SharePoint for knowledge repository, you will understand my pain.
Lotus Notes is unintuitive, with a hard to use interface, not to mention very closed and un-scalable, from a developers point of view.
Google for extending or programming a Lotus Notes application.
Making an add on for Outlook or implementing a workflow in SharePoint is fairly easy. If you Google for it you'll find plenty of hits and documentation.
The only reason why IBM has been able to keep this poor quality tools is the size of the clients using them and how rigid these type of organizations are (apart from migration tools).
imho, betting for Lotus Notes is betting to the wrong horse. Time will tell though.