Lotus notes
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Our huge, international corp. just got off Lotus Notes and gave us all outlook, this year. It was like being able to see for the first time. Presumably.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Mark Nischalke wrote:
I thought it had fallen off long ago.
I thought it went out with Gilligan's Island?
Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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My previous employer (8-9 months ago) was using it, and had no plans to change. They also tend to forecast those things abotu 5 years ahead of time. They were planning on getting all of the company on Windows7 by 2015 though ;P And yes they were told they will likely be 2 more releases of OSes between now and then. Testing takes time and money you know:~
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Unfortunatelly there are many org that still use blotes. Where I work we're on the virge off switching to a all MS enviroment. Blotes mail replaced with Exchange on Server and Outlook on clients. Blotes data bases replaced with SharePoint and finnaly sametime replaced with Lync(this is already done). Some banks that I go to(mostly to pay them :( ) still use blotes 6.
All the best, Dan
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Mark Nischalke wrote:
starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform
good luck with that. give us a call from the mental hospital, once you get settled in. ;)
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Mark Nischalke wrote:
starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform
good luck with that. give us a call from the mental hospital, once you get settled in. ;)
Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)Insanity is just a state of mind
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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I wish it would; we're still stuck with the mother-fucker.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Yeah, it's still in use... By many big organisations.. You can thank the brilliant IT managers (that is, the people who have no clue how to use a computer, but who get fancy dinners, golf invites, and other freebies from Lotus vendors).
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I remember working at PwC the whole company run off Notes, I even wrote my own app to mop up the RIP files.
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Metro RSSI used to work for a company that contracted out for PwC and the company I worked for was also using Notes. I haven't found a bigger headache than when I had to program against the DOM object in Notes. It was the worst API I have ever used. To add to it the language I had to use to build the program was VB6. Don't miss those days.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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I was an in-house consultant for a large bank HQ'd in Cleveland, Ohio that used Outlook / Exchange. I co-developed a Metrics harvesting - reporting system using the Attachmate Extra!, Outlook, Access, and Excel API's. Each of these were well-documented and easy to understand. BTW, kudos to Attachmate for out-automating MS. Extra! is a joy to control with external apps like VB and AutoIt. Anyway, in 2009 another bank HQ'd in Pittsburgh bought my bank and proceeded to destroy most of the automation we had put in place. What took me half and hour to design with MS products literally took DAYS with Notes. Horrible documentation is only the beginning. When they eliminated my entire department, I vowed that I would never again work for any shop that used Notes!
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*raises hand*, :(( Our IT policy when it come to purchasing enterprise software seems to be "find the biggest, most impractical and most poorly designed package possible and then push it on the users with no training."
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*raises hand*, :(( Our IT policy when it come to purchasing enterprise software seems to be "find the biggest, most impractical and most poorly designed package possible and then push it on the users with no training."
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Our IT policy when it come to purchasing enterprise software seems to be "find the biggest, most impractical and most poorly designed package possible and then push it on the users with no training."
Reminds me of a former employer. A manager came to me one day and asked the cost of a development package. I was working in Visual Basic at the time and I said $300. A coworker heard this and popped up in his cube and said, "We need to develop in Smalltalk, otherwise we aren't using Objects and we won't have code re-use." 'Objects' were the buzzword du jour. "How much would that cost?" the manager asked. "$5000 per compiler image and $300 per application seat." The manager turned back to me, "How much for the VB compiler?" "300 bucks," I said. So of course they went with Smalltalk. A language that only one person programmed in and one person maintained (me). It was shortly tossed on the technological scrap heap as word of Java and Intranet memes took over.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Yeah, it's still in use... By many big organisations.. You can thank the brilliant IT managers (that is, the people who have no clue how to use a computer, but who get fancy dinners, golf invites, and other freebies from Lotus vendors).
We used it until fairly recently. A license came bundled with every IBM server system that we bought, so it was essentially "free". We used it for all sorts of things -- email, collaboration, documentation, bug tracking, test plan tracking, etc. It worked for us, although it was pretty dated -- kinda had to hop in the 'ol wayback machine and pop on back to 1985 to feel comfortable with the UI :) We were a startup, and the Lotus team didn't wine-n-dine anybody to get us to use it.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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Currently I'm working on my company's client network and the company still uses Lotus Notes. The company is in the process of migrating it to microsoft, but many (like me) are still on Lotus Notes. It's a huge worldwide financial corporation. I was surprised too when I first saw it.
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
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I work for a large corporation. IT just started rolling out a Lotus Notes upgrade (from 6.5 to 8.5). It's even slower and more bloated now. Did I mention that I HATE NOTES!!!
I think we work for the same corporation, just got Lotus 8.5 X|
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
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I'm in the process of starting a new project involving migrating Lotus Notes applications to a Microsoft platform and I was curious how many organizations are still using Lotus Notes. I thought it had fallen off long ago.
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nope, still heavily in use. I worked for a dev shop that used it. The current version is build in Java on eclipse (I believe) and it crashes a lot. The navigation is totally un-user-friendly. Makes you appreciate Outlook, which is a bloated whale.
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Yeah, it's still in use... By many big organisations.. You can thank the brilliant IT managers (that is, the people who have no clue how to use a computer, but who get fancy dinners, golf invites, and other freebies from Lotus vendors).
the longer I live the more I find that just because you're in charge doesn't mean you can think.
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nope, still heavily in use. I worked for a dev shop that used it. The current version is build in Java on eclipse (I believe) and it crashes a lot. The navigation is totally un-user-friendly. Makes you appreciate Outlook, which is a bloated whale.
long live web mail!!!
