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I've always said Workplace is a lot of deja vu for anyone familar with eSuite Workplace

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Now to make that feeling even stronger, they're using the same analysts for press referrals as eSuite used...none other than Amy Wohl, who in a meeitng once at Lotus tried to convince me that eSuite and NCs were going to have quicker uptake in Corporations than Netscape. Sadly she re-affirmed my long held belief that analysts will always tell you what you want to hear.

Here's the 1997 eSuite Announcement, then fast forward 7 years to one of the many articles today relating to IBM's Workplace Announcement.

If you fancy a bit of fun search google for eSuite, read some of the articles and then go read some of the latest Workplace announcements. There's even a Norwegian one out there somewhere with me doing an interview on eSuite, now that was a fun press tour if I do say so myself.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 05/11/2004 | Permalink |

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1 - Two things strike me. First you're right about analysts, they tell you what you want to hear and more often than not get it wrong. Secondly the later press article talks more about MS Office than it does Workplace, it is Workplace they're pushing right? And who thought it was a good idea to use the same Amy Wohl who so roundly failed to get it right last time?

Posted by Tony C At 03:41:52 AM On 05/11/2004 | - Website - |

2 - But eSuite was completely buzzword-compliant. Thin client, Java, centrally managed, perfect for broad deployment in vertically-integrated systems. No way to avoid the words "leveraging" or "synergy" either. What else could an analyst have said?

Posted by Stan Rogers At 06:53:23 PM On 05/12/2004 | - Website - |

3 - True their vocabulary is a little limited.

Posted by Tony C At 02:32:52 AM On 05/13/2004 | - Website - |

4 - Were there ever any actual eSuite deployments? I remember Rob Wunderlich from my company giving a presentation to the Detroit Notes Professionals user group on eSuite back then, but never heard of any customers that ended up actually using it.

Posted by Michael Sobczak At 03:34:05 PM On 05/15/2004 | - Website - |

5 - Yes there were a few in Europe, there were also a number of partners that invested quite heavily in building solutions using the eSuite components only to have the rug pulled from underneath them.

Posted by Carl At 04:55:39 PM On 05/15/2004 | - Website - |