Microsoft sharepoint and IBM lotus notes Merger

[Pandya]

I heard that Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint has merge together. I have worked on Lotus Notes for some time but haven't work with the Sharepoint yet so can anyone suggest me which one is the best and what features are enabled in its merger .

[Pauline]

SharePoint team announces collaboration and document management. To adopt collaboration sites, business users need an easy way to publish information on SharePoint and to easily access SharePoint content from Lotus Notes. Enterprises have deployed two popular applications for online collaboration internally at the business unit or at the department level: Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Live Communications Server.

[Chingum]

Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator accelerates SharePoint adoption and usage at 1/10th of what it typically costs to migrate to Microsoft Outlook. Using Lotus Connections Communities and Dogear services to provide enhanced social networking capabilities to Microsoft SharePoint users requires no special code or integration. Both are standard capabilities of Lotus Connections. There are also a number of open source collaborative platforms available, such as Open Exchange, Open Groupware and Kolab.

[Tweaker]

Lotus Connections complements SharePoint is the use of Communities. One of the biggest pain points for enterprises is enabling their employees to find intellectual capital repositories. It Provides reliable, scalable content migrations from Lotus Notes, QuickPlace/QuickR and Domino.Doc to SharePoint Lists, Document Libraries, Content Pages and InfoPath Forms.