And finally, they are so damn stupid they probably have Lotus 123 and Word Perfect as their 'Office Suite' They think that Notes databases are cool and hip and truly believe Access is an enterprise level databaseĥ. The business only uses it because they don't know any better (they've been there too long and have never used anything other than Notes and AOL).Ĥ. The VP of IT is probably sleeping with the IBM repģ. They care more about the dollar than about usability and employee satisfactionĢ. When I start looking for a new job - the first question I'll ask is which Universal Messaging Platform have you deployed in your Enterprise? If they answer 'Notes' I'll know the following about their organziation:ġ. The biggest advantage of Notes is that their CALs (licenses) are so cheep compared to Exchange/Outlook. Is Exchange any better - yes and no - in general they both are crappy. I've been forced to use the piece a crap for over 5 years (I'm a consultant) and it had brought me great pleasure to help large scale enterprises move away from this overstuffed piece of crap. It's databases are just a step up from Access and to be honest - it's a pig. God I hate Notes- it's an operating system on top of an operating system. I applaud IBM's support of OS X and I only see things accelerating.īy the way.shops with Notes deployed well tend to be just as passionate about Notes and some of us can be about Macs.

The movement of OS X to a robust set of development tools, coupled with the maturity of software development practices in general across the software industry, means that full and exciting support of OS X alongside Windows is now a lot easier than it has ever aning Macs will be making more inroads into enterprise accounts. One of the key execs at their development team, Tim Halvorsen, was a key Mac supporter over the years (he's not there now). Well, never the best but it's been usable and they should be applauded for their long-standing support of the Mac platform.

The Notes Mac client hasn't always been the best. The biggest achilles heel has been their user interface (on any platform), and they're set to fix that (for the most part) in the next 12 months.

I also am a Notes developer and I've led dozens of Notes implementations. I've been a Mac user since '84 and a Notes user since '93. Lotus Notes can be great, if implemented well (and few can)

Lotus notes mac client buggy bugs