Managed File Transfer Blog

Reading some of the online comments regarding Lotus Notes is enough to make one blush.  At Accellion we find ourselves in the middle of this ongoing war between Lotus Notes and Exchange – and we are not ready to take sides.

Everyone knows that Exchange has the lion’s share of the email market.  And that’s good news for us since Exchange best practices limits email attachments to 10MB.  Anyone using Exchange has to be thinking about a solution for how to let their users send large files securely. Traditional IT workarounds for moving files such as CDs, FTP sites and IM are no longer looked kindly upon by any security officer. With Accellion, users can securely send files and file folders up to 20GB directly from Outlook or alternatively from our web interface.

However there are still a large number of people using Lotus Notes. To read the online comments you cannot but recognize that there is some frustration among Lotus Notes users.  But whether an organization decides to stay on Notes or migrate to Exchange is okay with us.  In fact we have had customers who have used us both for a Notes and Exchange environment, pre-and post migration, how even-handed is that?

So what can you expect from Accellion?  You can expect that we will make no judgements regarding your choice of email environment. We are officially not taking sides in the war between Lotus Notes and Exchange.  Accellion has an email plug-in for both Lotus Notes and Exchange and we’ll let you choose which one to use.  We propose a truce.

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