"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations"
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There is a whole late-90s corporate universe hiding inside that mild little sentence. “It didn’t make a lot of sense” is executive-speak’s most elegant weapon: it sounds rational, almost humble, while quietly shutting the door on a strategy, a team, even an era. Sanjay Kumar isn’t confessing confusion; he’s performing inevitability. The phrasing implies the numbers spoke, the market moved, and management simply obeyed. No villain, no mistake, just “sense” prevailing.
The specificity of “Lotus Notes implementations” does the heavy lifting. Lotus Notes wasn’t just software; it was the emblem of big-company IT: sprawling deployments, consultants on site for months, duct-taped workflows, and a billable-hours ecosystem that could feel like its own parallel economy. To say it no longer made sense is to telegraph a pivot away from customization-as-a-business-model toward whatever the next profit engine was: packaged services, newer platforms, offshore delivery, or the early logic of cloud-like standardization.
Subtext: we’re done being the crew that installs and maintains someone else’s internal plumbing. That’s not a technical judgment as much as a status play. Implementation work is often high revenue, low prestige, and brutally dependent on legacy decisions clients already regret. Kumar’s sentence is a strategic rebrand in miniature: a company trying to outrun the gravitational pull of yesterday’s enterprise stack, and to frame that escape as common sense rather than scramble.
The specificity of “Lotus Notes implementations” does the heavy lifting. Lotus Notes wasn’t just software; it was the emblem of big-company IT: sprawling deployments, consultants on site for months, duct-taped workflows, and a billable-hours ecosystem that could feel like its own parallel economy. To say it no longer made sense is to telegraph a pivot away from customization-as-a-business-model toward whatever the next profit engine was: packaged services, newer platforms, offshore delivery, or the early logic of cloud-like standardization.
Subtext: we’re done being the crew that installs and maintains someone else’s internal plumbing. That’s not a technical judgment as much as a status play. Implementation work is often high revenue, low prestige, and brutally dependent on legacy decisions clients already regret. Kumar’s sentence is a strategic rebrand in miniature: a company trying to outrun the gravitational pull of yesterday’s enterprise stack, and to frame that escape as common sense rather than scramble.
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