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Lotus Notes. Still beats Outlook for searching for emails and is easily better than the pile of refuse that is SharePoint for document libraries, workflows etc.
by gadders 2y ago
Lotus Notes. Still beats Outlook for searching for emails and is easily better than the pile of refuse that is SharePoint for document libraries, workflows etc.
- dagw 2y agoI think Lotus Notes must be one of the most controversial pieces of software ever released. One of my first jobs was developing a document and project management workflow system using Lotus Notes 4 and Domino and found it not only quite quick and easy to use, but looking back I have to say Notes was way ahead of its time with a lot of what it offered. Yet every time I mention Notes among IT people, most of them who have used it respond with visceral hatred.
- gadders 2y agoI started my career as a Lotus Notes developer so have a soft spot for it, even v3. When I started with with Notes it was pre-internet as well so having a system in London and New York that could replicate only updates over a not-very high bandwidth link to the US was amazing. But I've recently had to create document storage and approval sites with a simple workflow and it's horrible in SharePoint.
- dagw 2y agoNotes was a bit weird in that it was actually a pretty great rapid application development environment and 'no-sql' (way before that term became trendy) document store that was sold as a mediocre email client.