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Mac OS X Version of Lotus Notes 6

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-nowhere-near-that-flexible-anymore dept.

NadizPicR writes "Lotus released the first Mac OS X beta for its Notes Domino messaging and collaboration system client. Version 6.0b1 also features improved toolbar handling. I just downloaded and installed it, and it seems to be an excellent implementation." Do people still use Lotus Notes? Honestly?

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  1. Screenshots? by amorico · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone have any screenshots?

    This is pretty exciting since, with MS Office, it makes the mac a pretty viable alternative in the non-creative workplace. I worked as a designer and it was always immensely frustrating to either have to also use a PC, or simply be excluded from some enterprise apps and productivity tools.

    I noticed though that there is no Domino Server for OS X. pity. A Dual G4 domino server (with Gigabit ethernet of course) would kick serious butt and would make an all mac office a distinct possibility.

    I dream of a day when Oracle server runs on OS X and Apple has an easy to use data access framework a la ADO.net (with Postgres support): Rack mounted OS X application & database servers.
    Oh my god, somebody get me a towel.

    -a

    --
    "The plural of anecdote is not data." -- Roger Brinner
  2. Re:People Still Use Lotus Notes by amorico · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >The email client has to be the worst that I have ever used.

    That is the admin's fault. Notes allows you to do a lot of customization so that it serves your needs, but once you do, it's pretty much essential. Of all the groupware I've seen it integrates best with heterogeneous data stores, custom applications, and workflows.

    I agree that the e-mail is sucky compared to Outlook 2002 or mozilla or kmail or any number of other clients. This can be remedied though by effective use of custom domino applications and templates.

    -a

    --
    "The plural of anecdote is not data." -- Roger Brinner
  3. Lotus Domino market share by _Laban_ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People seem to think that no one uses Lotus Notes/Domino these days. I think I remember seeing some numbers presented on Lotus Sphere '02 where thay claimed to have ~51% of the market for groupware products in Europe. I can't find that data right now. But I searched for Lotus Domino at InfoTech Trends. The script returned the following forecast number of seats for Q4 2000 (you have to pay for information newer than that):

    00Q4 - Forecast number of seats for groupware/messaging, by program.
    Seats (mil)
    Software 1998 1999 2000
     Lotus Domino 34 55 65
    Microsoft Exchange 24 44 58

    Total 58 99 123

         Unix based solutions obviously isn't included in this survey. But I think it clearly shows that Notes/Domino has a quite large market share.