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Yes, I agree. Its core is quite powerful - like a way more powerful version of MS Access from back in the 80s. The problem is how it has been marketed and in wh
by m_mueller 8y ago
Yes, I agree. Its core is quite powerful - like a way more powerful version of MS Access from back in the 80s. The problem is how it has been marketed and in what corner it has been pushed technologically. CouchDB/Couchbase is an interesting spiritual successor, but it misses a powerful application framework surrounding it (actually something we are working on).
- 0x445442 8y agoYeah, it's interesting that more dev folks don't know Notes as a powerful NoSQL technology but just as a crappy email client. Also, not widely known; Domino server was/is really good at clustering and data replication.
- m_mueller 8y agoFrom a sysadmin and CIO viewpoint, Notes/Domino is a dream - because it's built for 80s servers, it's insanely cheap to run for large organisations (as long as you get user acceptance). I'd say the main thing people are missing though: Local replicas. Once you replicate the important DBs locally it's very responsive to work with, i.e. documents load without any delay. It just pains me that they never really modernised it. Should have switched to Couchbase, add their powerful permissions model, use continuous replication and a seamless switch to offline replica where already available, put a modern UI in front (but still with a drag-and-droppable designer) and bam - you have a programmable Evernotes on steroids.
- scrumper 8y agoDo you mean that you are working on Notes-like app frameworks at Couchbase? That's enormously interesting.