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Sounds like he has Lotus Domino-like problems in a product that closely resembles Domino. Yet in the same page makes fun of SQL for being old and busted? I don

• sk5t 14y ago
  Notes' main problems are/were the lack of joins and most aggregates, lack of proper transactions, lack of indexes that would permit useful runtime queries, somewhat slow data access layer, and glacially slowly-evolving, ugly-ass UI. It is also so easy to build on, that people who don't know what they're doing and shouldn't be building any software for redistribution, will do so anyway, and gain just enough success to become extremely annoying. Its IDE is about on par with most other IBM-involved software development exercises, i.e., fairly bad. Now, all that aside, it is a very powerful, but not generally well-appreciated, system, and is great (fast, cheap, hard to kill) for a large swath of applications that don't require any of the stuff from the first paragraph.