4 ms·

Oh really? I'm still quite young so I may not have heard of that. Curious to learn more tho.

• reificator 6y ago
  It's mostly a joke. Mostly...
• zdragnar 6y ago
  There used to be a somewhat common phrase "nobody gets fired for buying IBM", implying that, while less than good, their products were at least a safe choice. Maybe it's just the changing of the generations, or proliferation of SaaS and AWS etc, but I haven't heard the phrase used in probably 10 or 15 years. That in itself is probably an indication of where they are at more than anything. Edit: Safe choice for the purchasing manager. The poor sods who had to deal with it, on the other hand...
• Tsiklon 6y ago
  I've encountered plenty of sysadmins who either wince or get visibly angry at the mere mention of "Lotus Notes"
  • skissane 6y ago
    Notes is actually a really cool idea. A cross-platform rapid application development environment with a built-in replicated document-oriented database. I guess it is just a pity that there were some flaws in the execution, plus it got shoehorned as an email system rather than emphasising its full potential.
• microtherion 6y ago
  Those of us who entered the field in the 1980s expected to face a future of writing COBOL for some IBM compatible computer, wearing a tie. Whatever hardships life had in store for me, I'm grateful that none of these three came to pass.