Comment Re:Notes is maliciously bad. (Score 1) 105
You need to put this in context. When Notes/Domino first came out; it was a great product! You have to compare it to what was out at the time. IBM, internally was on Profs, (which was a green screen program, but still hands down one of the best email clients of all time). Now on the PC, for the corp. world, you had Word Perfect Office, CC Mail and MS Mail. They were all pretty darn bad! Lotus comes out with this awesome application that doesn't just do mail, but you can easily write real world, large scale apps in (in today's parlance it would be this Document/NoSQL database and all the RAGE). Now, they may not have been the prettiest apps in the world, but Domino kicked off a legion of Notes developers.
Also, Ray Ozzie is a genius. The Domino Multi-master replication scheme was light years ahead of it's time! It still is! I wish Ray open sourced this code. MS can't even get Sharepoint to replicate properly in 2018. The security stance was also decades ahead of it's time. No other product had the ability to do secure mailbox provisioning.
IBM has done what this did with so many other products. Bought a great product and killed it. IBM market share is going to be under $100billion soon, while MS and Apple are reaching a trillion. Imagine this product in the hands of a nimble, forward thinking startup? I'd bet it still be a dominant platform today. (Don't get me started on their Quickr and other epic fail SW, but again this is IBM and not Lotus or Ray.)
Here's the kicker, I wasn't even a Notes/Domino fanboy at the time, but realized the amazing power and features of the product when I saw it. I wrote programs that Global Fortune 100 company operations relied on day to day. I've also seen consulting companies come in and try to 're-write' these applications and went down in flames because they couldn't handle the global replication required. (But they had prettier screens) (Note this time frame is appx. 15 years ago)
What's super sad is that I'm at a company that STILL uses Lotus Notes, and OMG does the interface just suck balls. It's hard to explain how bad it is.
