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6 years ago I joined a Swiss company that was running its entire operations on a custom built solution on top of Lotus Notes.Boy did we hate it...Every time you
by cosmodisk 7y ago
6 years ago I joined a Swiss company that was running its entire operations on a custom built solution on top of Lotus Notes.Boy did we hate it...Every time you try open something you get this progress icon that used to take anywhere from a few seconds to half a minute. I must give credit to the designers in terms of functionality-it did all we needed(I did borrow some design solutions for my next job), but the lack of speed!!!! I even made an analysis on lost productivity and produced to my manager...Then Americans bought the company and eventually ditched that crap all together:)
- pixelrevision 7y agoThe pain with lotus notes is real. I had to work with it for 3+ years and was blown away that someone was able to make an email client that took literal minutes to perform any given task. I always think of it whenever I see any IBM announcement for new tech.
- cosmodisk 7y agoThe real takeaway is that despite of all its sluggishness,IBM probalby made billions out of it...This serves as a brilliant example to a lot of technical people out here that things they deem important may not be the same as what the end client thinks they are. Apart from this,my first and hopefully the last experience of lotus notus could be easily expanded into a pretty long article about desing, software vendors and product development...It used to take about a year to add a button on the page layout...
- sleavey 7y agoI spent a year making a replacement for our internal notes system composed as a custom Lotus Notes application. It feels so good to be free of it now.
- swsieber 7y agoMay i ask what some of the design solutions you picked up were?