<p>As Abraham Lincoln once famously asked: "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"</p><p>It's true in cloud migrations as in politics, as Bill Seybolt, system administrator for 285-employee ad agency 22squared, discovered in late 2009 when he transitioned a 13-year-old IBM Lotus Notes system to the Google Apps cloud productivity suite.</p><p>The Lotus Notes system in question had been around for some time, and while the platform had updated far enough to allow RIM BlackBerry users to get their e-mail and calendars on the go, iPhone or Android users were simply out of luck. For 22squared, where employees rely heavily on their calendars, this was becoming more and more of a pain.</p><p>I Used A Samsung Chromebook For Two Weeks. Here's What I Learned. Sign up for CITEworld's InCITE newsletter -- delivered weekly.</p><p><a href="http://www.citeworld.com/cloud/21362/google-apps-enemies-advocates-ditched-lotus-notes">Keep reading...</a></p>