techcrunchit.com — Has IBM?s polarizing Lotus Notes lost touch with the user-centric Web 2.0 world? To answer this, I interviewed Kevin Cavanaugh, IBM?s VP in charge of the Notes/Domino group. Also joining us was Ed Brill, IBM?s Director of Messaging and Collaboration.
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clickwirDec 27, 2008
When you see the extent that Lotus Notes can go to with feature compatibility and how this "one program" can quickly and easily integrate all those features.... and do it quite well.... yes, Lotus Notes is pretty good and nothing else matches it.
clickwirDec 27, 2008
Lotus notes is great. The loudest complainers are the people that only use it for email and are used to Hotmail or Outlook Express. "When are we going to switch to Exchange?" they ask. NEVER. Exchange is just an email and calendar program, it's useless. Go use GMAIL if that's all you want, while us Lotus Notes guys will be passing you by with email, calendar, document sharing, help databases, CRM's, import/export of data from other systems for report building and statistical trending... yea, lets hear a bit more about what Exchange can do.I just wish that Ubuntu had Lotus Notes 8 in it's repos. I know I know, that's next to impossible to ask. But right now I run Notes 8 basic in WINE and it runs pretty good. There's a few quirks here and there, but that's because of it running with WINE.
wishitwerepaulDec 27, 2008
could it be because lotus notes in fact is a successful product which brings benefit to customers and healthy profit to the company?
wideawakewesleyDec 27, 2008
Add -basic to the command line call and it'll load a hell of a lot faster.
piyushmishraDec 28, 2008
Yes, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.x is now in sync with web 2.0. Lotus Notes 8.x can run in two modes - UI rich mode or high performance mode. UI rich mode has all - widgets , integrated IM , Composite applications , Feed reader & what not.Now with Lotus Domino Designer 8.5, developer community will enjoy too :-)
inajeepDec 28, 2008
We've been at 6.51 for 4 or more years. Finally going to r8 next year.
woowarDec 29, 2008
The "F5 = refresh" equation is a myth. Try it ..* Word - nope, F5 does a find-and-replace* Excel - nope, F5 does a goto* PowerPoint - nope, F5 does a slideshowF5 does different things in different places: get over it!(And, as Ed says, F5 no longer logs you out of Notes, because IBM accepted that it was an annoyance to people who thought they were in a browser when in fact they're in Notes - the UI can't be *that* bad if so many people make that basic mistake, can it?)
gbollardJan 13, 2009
Any company or user who complains about using Notes and compares it to the current versions of "outlook" or some other such software without actually being on the current version of Notes (8.5) is making an unfair comparison. Granted, notes went through some difficult times in the early days of Outlook but it's back with a vengeance. IBM bought Notes quite a while ago and wrongly spent time trying to replace the technology (workplace). It's only been relatively recently (about halfway through version 7) that IBM started to actually "OWN" Notes. Do yourself a favour.... if you're on an old version - upgrade, train and take advantage. Even better, start using it on the other platforms like Mac and Linux.
gbollardJan 13, 2009
Upgrade to a current version of Notes and get a decent developer to look at your database. Chances are that you can probably make changes to your data via browser - and in seconds too.