There's a fascinating thread of comments over at Ed Brill's blog on this post. Ed and Alan Lepofsky, along with various other luminaries in the Notes communities, have been having a generally professional discussion with Cliff Reeves of Microsoft. David Madison of Microsoft may have gotten the last word, though, as Ed has promised to turn off comments on the post. It's his blog, and so of course it's his right to do so, but I'm sorry to see it, since I think the exchange has been very illuminating-- particularly since Ed has (quite fairly) criticized Microsoft in the past for not taking part in strategy debates at various public conferences.

If Cliff, David, or any of the other participants in the thread who don't have their own blogs want to carry this on, I'll be happy to guest-post their comments here.