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Not having working email and calendar is still an improvement over Lotus Notes.
by oldgradstudent 5y ago
Not having working email and calendar is still an improvement over Lotus Notes.
- busymom0 5y agoRelevant AMA from IBM developers which some questions didn't go as well as they expected: > What is the worst piece of software you've worked on and why is it Lotus Notes? > Why does Lotus Notes always crash? And why does IBM package Lotus Notes with utilities to terminate and clean up Lotus Notes, instead of just fixing Lotus Notes in the first place? > "Why is Lotus Notes still a thing? Seriously though, as someone who works for your "competition" in that field the product just seems like an embarrassment." to which they replied: "Actually... I rarely use Lotus Notes... I've been using Verse. All my email is in my browser now! - Richard." https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ilzey/were_a_bunch_of_developers_from_ibm_ask_us/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ilzey/were_a_bunch_o...
- fulafel 5y agoIt would be interesting to hear the theory of what happened between developing the interesting engine tech under the hood, suitable for flexible collaboration and active databases, and end user riots. Was it that marketing had to decide between promoting the bundled mail/calendar apps and promoting it as a custom app platform, and latter withered away?