Posted by
CowboyNeal
on from the bring-on-the-apps dept.
Code-Fu writes "NetWare is nowhere. That's the word from Lotus Development."
You can read the rest of the story here.
This involves Lotus bringing Domino to Linux, and will probably mean Linux being used in more business settings. I like it.
When I think of Lotus, I think of...
by
ed_the_unready
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...the last company to abandon disk-based copy protection, which did virtually nothing to hinder illegal copying but routinely punished paying customers, ...asinine 'look-and-feel' lawsuits against VIP, Paperback and ultimately Borland. The first two were driven from the market, QuattroPro operated under a legal cloud for years while Windows and Excel took the market. Lotus had the gall to complement Microsoft during the trial, for using macro translators instead of direct menu and macro compatibility, ...OS/2 ports that were so horrid and dysfunctional as to beggar the imagination, ...IBM's OS/2 support drying up and disappearing almost to the day that they acquired Lotus. No more Visualizer clients for OS/2 DB/2, the new DB/2 client became Approach...for Windows95. WTF?
Lotus has an extensive history for being far more trouble than they're worth. Leave them to be the bottom feeders in the Microsoft owned market they vigorously helped create. ---------------------
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...the last company to abandon disk-based copy protection, which did virtually nothing to hinder illegal copying but routinely punished paying customers,
...asinine 'look-and-feel' lawsuits against VIP, Paperback and ultimately Borland. The first two were driven from the market, QuattroPro operated under a legal cloud for years while Windows and Excel took the market. Lotus had the gall to complement Microsoft during the trial, for using macro translators instead of direct menu and macro compatibility,
...OS/2 ports that were so horrid and dysfunctional as to beggar the imagination,
...IBM's OS/2 support drying up and disappearing almost to the day that they acquired Lotus. No more Visualizer clients for OS/2 DB/2, the new DB/2 client became Approach...for Windows95. WTF?
Lotus has an extensive history for being far more trouble than they're worth. Leave them to be the bottom feeders in the Microsoft owned market they vigorously helped create.
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John 3:16 - God's Public License