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Usget said:
kambites said:
We (the IBM site I work on) have got one of them lying around. They're quite chunky things. 
I'm pretty sure that's the Lotus Notes mailserver for the whole of IBM GBI've nicked that image for the front cover of my next deployment guide...
Actually I don't know why I'm laughing, I have to use Lotus Notes at work
Shaoxter said:
Usget said:
kambites said:
We (the IBM site I work on) have got one of them lying around. They're quite chunky things.
I'm pretty sure that's the Lotus Notes mailserver for the whole of IBM GBI've nicked that image for the front cover of my next deployment guide...
Actually I don't know why I'm laughing, I have to use Lotus Notes at work
I have an ex-colleague who was one of the lead developers on the original version of Notes, back before it was bought by Lotus, back in the dark early days when it was innovative.
When Lotus bought it, he got a modest windfall. Nothing you could retire on, more like an unexpected mentioning in a distant aunt's will. However the directors got multi-million pound windfalls that meant they never had to work again.
Surprisingly, my ex-colleague was fairly sanguine about this, despite the injustice of it all.
Anyway, I know this doesn't contribute anything to the debate. It was just one of those semi-interesting anecdotes you pick up in 20+ years in the industry. Sorry. As you were.
When Lotus bought it, he got a modest windfall. Nothing you could retire on, more like an unexpected mentioning in a distant aunt's will. However the directors got multi-million pound windfalls that meant they never had to work again.
Surprisingly, my ex-colleague was fairly sanguine about this, despite the injustice of it all.
Anyway, I know this doesn't contribute anything to the debate. It was just one of those semi-interesting anecdotes you pick up in 20+ years in the industry. Sorry. As you were.
Morningside said:
I thought Lotus Notes was from the late 1980s. Did not realise that it was still used.
Sadly it still is and it hasn't got any better. Mind you the competition isn't much better. Outlook is a better e-mail client but I think it's even more of a joke at some of the heavier duty database stuff.
Pretty damn easy to manage from what I remember. Hate that we use s
tty Gmail at work R8VXF said:
Was trying to work out what the heavy duty db stuff you were talking about was
I have about 50 databases on my Notes workspace, only one of them is directly related to e-mail. Notes is a very poor e-mail client but it's worth remembering that that's not it's main purpose. It's also a very poor database client.
Edited by kambites on Saturday 25th July 09:19
kambites said:
R8VXF said:
Was trying to work out what the heavy duty db stuff you were talking about was
I have about 50 databases on my Notes workspace, only one of them is directly related to e-mail. Notes is a very poor e-mail client but it's worth remembering that that's not it's main purpose. It's also a very poor database client.
JonRB said:
I have an ex-colleague who was one of the lead developers on the original version of Notes, back before it was bought by Lotus, back in the dark early days when it was innovative.
When Lotus bought it, he got a modest windfall. Nothing you could retire on, more like an unexpected mentioning in a distant aunt's will. However the directors got multi-million pound windfalls that meant they never had to work again.
Surprisingly, my ex-colleague was fairly sanguine about this, despite the injustice of it all.
Anyway, I know this doesn't contribute anything to the debate. It was just one of those semi-interesting anecdotes you pick up in 20+ years in the industry. Sorry. As you were.
When Lotus bought it, he got a modest windfall. Nothing you could retire on, more like an unexpected mentioning in a distant aunt's will. However the directors got multi-million pound windfalls that meant they never had to work again.
Surprisingly, my ex-colleague was fairly sanguine about this, despite the injustice of it all.
Anyway, I know this doesn't contribute anything to the debate. It was just one of those semi-interesting anecdotes you pick up in 20+ years in the industry. Sorry. As you were.
In my first job at a software house I worked alongside someone who'd joined from Threadz who had a product called Organizer. They got bought by Lotus.
He tought me everything I ever wanted to know about writing slick highly efficient Windows apps using the API. Very clever guy. Those were the days. Back before MFC and "frameworks".
mattdaniels said:
In my first job at a software house I worked alongside someone who'd joined from Threadz who had a product called Organizer. They got bought by Lotus.
He tought me everything I ever wanted to know about writing slick highly efficient Windows apps using the API. Very clever guy. Those were the days. Back before MFC and "frameworks".
Anyway, whichever Lotus product it was, he'd been a key developer on it pre-Lotus.
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