Depends. Coming from a different direction, meaning a non-MS world, I found Lotus really pleasant to work with and extremely powerfull. The DB-style of everythi

Depends. Coming from a different direction, meaning a non-MS world, I found Lotus really pleasant to work with and extremely powerfull. The DB-style of everything, the apps that you could embed into it made it very enterprise, for it could automatize a lot of the processes and internal flows. Unfortunatelly, in a MS world domination for home computers, a new employee would find Lotus quite strange and unappealing. Sad. PS. the article makes a mistake too, the full SmartSuite costs 342$ not just the 1-2-3.