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> Lotus Notes died because the web took over Lotus Notes died because it was proprietary. Had it been open: an open server and open protocol, I believe every
by topspin 7mo ago
> Lotus Notes died because the web took over
Lotus Notes died because it was proprietary. Had it been open: an open server and open protocol, I believe every device would be using it today.
I had one good dose of that platform for four years. It was a biotech with ~100 people in five countries[1], and four states in the US. There were Notes servers all over the place, and it worked with skeletal admin resources on neglected, low cost Dell boxes. It worked for management, sales and the labs.
[1] US, Germany, France, Japan and Canada, in that order.
- wolvoleo 7mo agoM365 is proprietary and it is widely used by companies
- chris_wot 7mo agoIt’s all that survived.
- ferngodfather 7mo agoYep... Movie maker, Clippy, MSN Music, Encarta, Office accounting, Money, Response Point, hell TECHNET.
- adrian_b 7mo agoM365 is used only because it is the continuation of MS Office, which had been entrenched in most companies for many decades. In the beginning, the fact that MS Office was proprietary had nothing to do with communication protocols, but only with the file formats. The need to convert between proprietary file formats had always existed in an enterprise setting, which is why all such products, including MS Office, had extensive support for importing the file formats of their competitors, so this was never a serious obstacle for adoption.