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To be fair, lotus notes was awful before IBM bought it.

• codingdave 12y ago
  No, no it really wasn't. It had some well-earned respect, and was innovative. It offered power to the users that was unheard of in those days, allowing them to spin out their own discussions and applications without needing software developers to help out. It clustered, it scaled, it had granular levels of security that still hold up today. It was used to build online communities in the days when dial-up BBSes were the norm. While the UI of its client sucked compared to anything we see today, those were the days of Windows 3.1. Everything sucked back then. It has aged poorly. But it had its place, and its time.
  • Tloewald 12y ago
    Really it was. I used it before IBM bought it and it was awful. Good technology but execrable UI.