A Quick question about Lotus Notes

[Ginger Tosser]

Im in between jobs atm the mo and many people are asking for Lotus Notes experience, so is it just like Office but made by someone else?
Also does anyone know if lotus do a trial so i can try to blag my knowledge.

[Pij]

Lotus notes is the spawn of Satan, its a email server meets calender meets scripts/databases for creating shat that you could do with other apps better .

Beta DL http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp...W42&S_CMP=&s=p

[Ginger Tosser]

Nice!, ill give it a try

[Pij]

I think it was v4.2 last time i used it so it could be better now, you couldnt even have multiple password protected email boxes without a 3rd party app back then.

[Ginger Tosser]

It does indeed sound ****e, supprised so many people want experience with it.

Thanks for the link, it'll give my server something to do at lunchtime!

[Pij]

I never thought it would become popular tbh, another thing i hated about it was you couldnt add peoples email boxes to other machines without being infront of it, and adding the shortcut inside the program.

I didnt look after notes/domino so it could have just been badly configured. Still rate mdeamon and sendmail as the 2 most reliable email systems (notes/domino does more but im not sure if most places need it)

[FelixofMars]

People acctually still use Lotus? I though that had died out 10 years ago

I dont know what it is with these companys using backwards software

[Morcerf]

Lotus Notes continues to dominate worldwide. (IDC, 6/01, "Worldwide Integrated Collaborative Environment Software Total Users.") It continues to expand into European, South American, and Asian markets over Exchange by a wide margin. The U.S. market has pretty much stabilized into a neck and neck, two-horse race.

Zero viruses to date with Lotus. Considering that IBM/Lotus is a larger company than Microsoft, and Lotus Notes is more globally deployed than Exchange--why is it that there have been no viruses? The CIA e-mail system is Lotus Notes. The FAA is moving to Notes. The local Embassy of El Salvador is Notes. There is an article here, isn't there?

Enterprise stability and scalability. As far as large installations go, the Fortune 1 company Exxon Mobil is a good reference. Notes runs on l-a-r-g-e systems. Notes supports fail-over and load-balancing clustering between disparate hardware and network OS.

Return on investment. The most recent Radicati study gives Notes 5 the thumbs-up for ROI over Exchange 2000. This is a pretty big switch from the last time Radicati ran their analysis. You mention that recent study, and your points are well taken--nevertheless, Notes comes out looking pretty good.

Notes is more than the Notes client. Lotus iNotes allows the Outlook 2000 client (or IE) to interface with a Domino back-end server. Other sites are using Domino for POP3 or IMAP4.

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2844256,00.html

[gtskater]

I've used Lotus Notes for the past 3 months and I've got my gripes but overall I think its alright. I didn't like it at first, but thats cos it didn't do things the way I expected them to be done (cos of using Outlook), but now I'm used to it, its not too bad. It's certainly stable. Hasn't crashed once in 3 months of 9 to 5 use.

[FelixofMars]

I was wrong, no biggy, but its true I haven't seen or heard of any of there products for years now.

Lotus Notes continues to dominate worldwide. (IDC, 6/01, "Worldwide Integrated Collaborative Environment Software Total Users.") It continues to expand into European, South American, and Asian markets over Exchange by a wide margin. The U.S. market has pretty much stabilized into a neck and neck, two-horse race.

Zero viruses to date with Lotus. Considering that IBM/Lotus is a larger company than Microsoft, and Lotus Notes is more globally deployed than Exchange--why is it that there have been no viruses? The CIA e-mail system is Lotus Notes. The FAA is moving to Notes. The local Embassy of El Salvador is Notes. There is an article here, isn't there?

Enterprise stability and scalability. As far as large installations go, the Fortune 1 company Exxon Mobil is a good reference. Notes runs on l-a-r-g-e systems. Notes supports fail-over and load-balancing clustering between disparate hardware and network OS.

Return on investment. The most recent Radicati study gives Notes 5 the thumbs-up for ROI over Exchange 2000. This is a pretty big switch from the last time Radicati ran their analysis. You mention that recent study, and your points are well taken--nevertheless, Notes comes out looking pretty good.

Notes is more than the Notes client. Lotus iNotes allows the Outlook 2000 client (or IE) to interface with a Domino back-end server. Other sites are using Domino for POP3 or IMAP4.

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupda...844256,00.html

[SuperBrother]

I've had to use Notes at work for the last 4 years - total bag of ****.

[FelixofMars]

My thoughts exactly, that why I am suprised they are still going I guess.