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    > ...and internal systems they have to use, whose sole purpose is to make sure nobody does anything

I once had to use Lotus Notes after the company I was at was acquired by the now defunct Computer Sciences Corporation. I decided I would never, ever work for another company that used Lotus Notes.

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The worst ever product: IBM FileNet! What an awful product. An acquisition, btw.

A lot of people seem to voice a disdain for Notes but I actually liked it for some reason.

Notes was pretty decent as a groupware/ nosql platform. Lotus script wasn’t great. I might be biased because my first CS job was to write applications with it.

It felt like they basically tacked on the email functionality to to Notes to sell it, but it always seemed kinda ok to me.

That's because your comment is only 3 levels deep.

Let's revisit this when it's Reply to Reply to Reply to Reply :)

In a lot of ways Notes was ahead of its time. You could easily have encrypted replicated databases with offline work, which was very handy for traveling users back before high bandwidth connections were widely available, and you could build quite complex apps on top of those databases.

I saw at least one large company that migrated from Notes to exchange and they got the email/calendaring bit done quite easily and were still running notes servers for line of business applications years later.

Hasn't Notes been sluffed off to HCL?

Not OP, they have not tried to sell it to us... yet at least. They are still trying to convince us that MyCloud is a amazing product.

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