Lotus is not a bad piece of software, I dont know know where all the hate is comming from, Lotus is actually far more robust that outlook and has far more technical ability. Try designing and building a seachable knowlege base database in outlook and see how far you get.
Developers are few in number, users are great in number.
From a user's point-of-view, Lotus Notes sucks big time. It's slow, it locks up if your network connection is slow, it doesn't recover properly if it crashes, the UI is a total mess and it's simply unrelibale.
The only companies who still use it are ones run by their IT department. And that's NEVER a good thing.
Lotus notes is hated because it is slow and for no explainable reason. I have 7.0.2 running this very desktop right now, and it has 4 processes loaded (that I know of... probably a couple of others that I just don't recognize as) and doesn't seem to be using much memory, less than 100MB total, but it is slower than dog doo to do anything.
Open a calander? That task 10 seconds. New Email? thats 4 Address look up? Oh, go get something to eat and check back.
Bundle that with the fact that it doesn't use standard Windows short cut keys (F9 is refresh, F5 is log out), and you have a frustrating program to use.
Don't even get me started on administering the damn server.
I am not exchange/outlook fan boy, but MS offerings are much easier to setup, administer and use than IBM's.
All that derailment aside, anyone who thinks that "iPhone ownership = hip and cool" is a tool and is not hip and/or cool. An iPhone is a phone. It is a neat phone, but it is not currently a business device (see blackberry's and WM PDA phones) It is not (or atleast shouldn't be) a fashion statement.
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Lotus is not a bad piece of software, I dont know know where all the hate is comming from, Lotus is actually far more robust that outlook and has far more technical ability. Try designing and building a seachable knowlege base database in outlook and see how far you get.
Developers are few in number, users are great in number.
From a user's point-of-view, Lotus Notes sucks big time. It's slow, it locks up if your network connection is slow, it doesn't recover properly if it crashes, the UI is a total mess and it's simply unrelibale.
The only companies who still use it are ones run by their IT department. And that's NEVER a good thing.
Lotus notes is hated because it is slow and for no explainable reason. I have 7.0.2 running this very desktop right now, and it has 4 processes loaded (that I know of... probably a couple of others that I just don't recognize as) and doesn't seem to be using much memory, less than 100MB total, but it is slower than dog doo to do anything.
Open a calander? That task 10 seconds.
New Email? thats 4
Address look up? Oh, go get something to eat and check back.
Bundle that with the fact that it doesn't use standard Windows short cut keys (F9 is refresh, F5 is log out), and you have a frustrating program to use.
Don't even get me started on administering the damn server.
I am not exchange/outlook fan boy, but MS offerings are much easier to setup, administer and use than IBM's.
All that derailment aside, anyone who thinks that "iPhone ownership = hip and cool" is a tool and is not hip and/or cool. An iPhone is a phone. It is a neat phone, but it is not currently a business device (see blackberry's and WM PDA phones) It is not (or atleast shouldn't be) a fashion statement.