I never realized that it’s already been a month ago when the “IBM Lotus Redbook’s gone” news in the community broke out? I guess that depicts how much I got my hands full from that time until recently. Back then though, the biggest names in the Lotus realm had their say about it. Among others:

•  Christopher Byrne analyzed a lot of factors, considerations and impacts shutting down Redbooks would mean to IBM, the business partners and the technical people.
• Of course Ed Brill dedicated an entry on the prominent matter then.
• Tom Duff wrote something more optimistic starting out with apparent issues IBM may consider in maintaining Redbooks and culminating the entry with a wait-and-see mindset.

In any case, I don’t know how to feel about the decision. I got to learn a lot about Lotus Notes and Domino, Lotus Workflow and Domino Document Manager via the Redbooks so I’m sure gonna miss the stuff. I’m not sure the much talked about wikis will do a good job in replacing the Redbooks we’ve grown accustomed to in the previous decade.