IBM to Adopt ODF for Lotus Notes

Mike Barton writes to tell us InfoWorld is reporting IBM has announced that the upcoming version of Lotus Notes, due out this fall, will feature an "ODF-compatible version of OpenOffice embedded in the Notes e-mail application." IBM hopes that this large scale distribution of the ODF standard will help bolster their foothold in the marketplace since "standards live or die on how many people use them"

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Re:I was a Lotes Admin

[Himring]

My facts are all correct. And you can believe what you want. The thing is crap. Yes, for support purposes, we created .id files with generic passwords and then let the user set a copy for themselves. As I've responded above, out-of-the-box, lotes lends itself to worse support and, therefore, worse security. Handing-off authentication to the OS is far more supportable and secure.

No email administrator who had worked with the main platforms out there would, in his right mind, choose lotes....

10 years? You poor man. I'm sure you read the same mule-choking lotes admin books I have which have to spend some time apologizing in each chapter....