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January 28, 1998

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Buggy Today or Better Tomorrow?


It's easy to be critical about on-time product delivery in the software business. The latest victim is Lotus, and the finger pointer is Jesse Berst in his latest opinion piece. He lashes into Lotus for late products and a failure to "Webify" its products and turn its focus to the Internet quickly enough.

Well, maybe Lotus should do detention this week for delaying the release of Notes and Domino 5.0. Of course, it will be like the breakfast club, with every software company from the start-up in the garage next door to Microsoft and JavaSoft attending. We hope there will be enough desks.

Lotus might suffer from the 'wanna get it right' syndrome, but it does ship better, more stable products than those companies which adhere to a strict schedule. Whether this is a false dilemma or not is open for debate, but would you rather have a buggy product today, or a really well designed product tomorrow?

Jesse goes on to make the statement: "If super-tanker Microsoft can turn itself completely around overnight to focus on the Internet, why has it taken Lotus two full years (and counting!) to do the same thing?" Counting may not be his strong suit, but Domino has been integrating Notes with the Internet for some time now. We think the list of great features of these and other "Webified" Lotus products stand for themselves. Do you? Check out Lotusphere and let us know.


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