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Agreed. The eclipse client made everything worse IMO.

• topspin 10y ago
  Apparently the Eclipse based client appeared in 2007 with Notes 8, long after my last contact with any of this. Someone pointed out that the old UI is a subject of the Interface Hall of Shame. It was weird, no denying that. But it was also fairly efficient; you got a lot of function out of it on a circa 2003 laptop. It was also stable if the host itself wasn't a mess. Not surprised to hear the Eclipse based client isn't loved; I imagine you'll see a 5x memory usage increase right off the bat, and every operation will take 1k more CPU cycles than it should. Anyhow, mostly I limit my praise to the trouble free and robust replication and distribution of content through Domino, the server side of the platform, a name this thread reminded me of after 12 years. A client could dial in to any Domino server in the company, efficiently and quickly sync all of their databases with the global network and immediately and get to work using their fast local storage. No drama, no glitches, no calls to the help desk. Good stuff. It obviated the need for shared file systems anywhere, which would have been next to impossible anyhow given the degree of distribution and poor connectivity available. It mostly obviated the need of backing up clients and several of the further flung servers; Domino naturally does multi-way replication, so the backups at the best resourced sites are sufficient.