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Snarky comments: "Lotus Notes is what the web would look like if it were design by committee." Pithy comments: Notes Mail and Calendar consistently fails at th
by xsmasher 17y ago
Snarky comments: "Lotus Notes is what the web would look like if it were design by committee."
Pithy comments: Notes Mail and Calendar consistently fails at the tasks of notifying you when you have new mail or a scheduled meeting, two essential tasks for mail and calendar software.
The last time I developed for it the back end pretended to be a database, but it is not relational and does not allow arbitrary queries. It also claims to support HTML in email and other documents, but its rendering was bizarre and arbitrary, and its support for CSS was almost non-existent.
- cturner 17y agoA former housemate started a relationship with a cute girl. Of course, when non-geeks are around conversation must veer wildly away from anything in the field. But he said that she might be a bit geeky herself. Conversation turned towards computing when she was over a bit later on, and I let it go there. Said housemate and I were having an enormous bitch about Lotus Notes from shared work experience. She wore on a sour expression, and I thought my instincts had been shown right. But then it came out that she was a self-taught Domino developer, and had a web application with tens of thousands of users hosted off it, built on Domino - something she'd just done as a hobby. Now what are the odds of that?
- nradov 17y agoNot every database needs to be relational. Some applications, such as e-mail and groupware, are better suited to the document database built in to Domino. If you want to run arbitrary queries that can be done easily using the full-text query language, or with the free NotesSQL add-on.