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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

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    "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

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    "The plural of anecdote is not data." -- Roger Brinner
  3. Flamebait by sydb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do people still use Lotus Notes? Honestly?

    This is just /. flamebait. Notes has a huge installed base in big financial institutions and other sectors where security and IBM are important. My employer, with over 10,000 staff, is currently migrating everyone to Notes from a mix of mainframe mail and POP3. 2000 users are to be migrated this weekend.

    Now, I'm a Free Software bigot, so I hate Notes for being proprietary. And I hate the odd GUI for being... well, odd and buggy. But Notes has no real competition in terms of features and security. It's also impressively cross platform (on the server side, anyway).

    It's really in a class of it's own. Of course it's still used.

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    Yours Sincerely, Michael.