Any use Lotus Notes?

[TimCaprica]

LN

My old employer used to use it. It was horrendous. They always said that it was because of the database functionality, which seemed fair enough. Though now everything is on the company intranet so they are going to use Outlook instead.

I had to use killnotes about once a week.

@TimCaprica

[DieScum]

Was a reasonable platform for app distribution, had quite a few tools that we based in my workspace.

Sametime gone, Notes gone.
Communicator in, Outlook in.

Yeah they have a few apps in the workspace that work ok... but they'd be better if they were web apps or just software installs.

I despise this sametime and notes so much. I suppose they have little market share so can't invest to make the product good but enterprise agreements are signed so it is still out there.

[JamJarST]

My Clientco is on 7.0.1

Mine is 7.0.2 ..... it is dire .... did anyone mention it is ........... s..........l.........o.........w?

[vetran]

Was really good in the 80s & early 90s but they stopped developing it seriously and it showed its age about revision 5.

Each application / mailbox was a database when exchange was one amorphous mass (brick level backup anyone). Had real potential.

The web interface could have blown sharepoint out of the water but it was so developer / power user unfriendly.

Set the max size for email db to a few hundred meg and it used to be quite fast. Default was as big as you like, so when a user opened a 15GB mail db the server slowed to a stop.

They didn't create a decent watchdog for all the applications needed to make the client work hence killnotes.

Admin was a pain as well.

I blame them for not hiring me back in the nineties. I told them all that.

silly people

[TestMangler]

Current Client Co on 7, moving to 8.5 in the next few days

That'll be a couple of days off then

[milanbenes]

i just had two years at big blue so obviously we had that pile of poo

and currently at a blue chip which is a massive big blue house so again
we have it :-(

Milan.

[darmstadt]

I've been using it for donkey's years, first back when it was on OS/2 and involved in all aspects of it. What you have to remember is that it was not originally an e-mail client but a form of groupware and e-mail was just an add-on. Since then most companies use it as their primary e-mail client for which it was never designed and so all these problems occur. Some things work very well and some very poorly. Whatever you do, don't run the Domino server on z/OS...

[conned tractor]

Am I the only one that feels they've stepped into a timewarp?

[Fred Bloggs]

I've never seen anything quite like it, but current client co uses Lotus Notes as a document management platform a bit like Documentum but not as good (which is something I thought I'd never be able to say). It is truly dire with buttons on the tool bars that seem to be randomly assigned in functionality and the most primitive ways of doing things it's untrue. Thankfully, they don't use it for email.

[AtW]

You'll need to take out one of the programs running in memory.(Cant remember which off the top of my head), but just so you know.

csrss.exe