One day, one of the emerging countries (China, India, Brazil) is going to realize how many hurdles are created in innovation and progress due to the greedy nature of the IP laws that US is pushing.
That country is going to rationalize their IP laws and become the world leader in knowledge based economy. Our country will huff and puff due to the idiots running the country and the influence that IP whores have in our capital but won't be able to do much.
May be someone can make a sci-fi novel out of it. I claim copyright on the idea...wait, never mind:)
I have been developing with Notes for some years and have found out that, with the exception of UI, most complaints can be traced to lack of understanding about Lotus Notes.
It is an enterprise messaging client. To use it effectively, u need a good administrator and good developers. In other words, it is a bit like Linux. Very powerful, very flexible but you need to know what you are doing; it is not designed to protect you from yourself. Note that it does not mean that it cannot be used by idiots; just that it cannot be used by idiots out-of-box you need to customize/enhance the default email template, modify the NOTES.INI etc.
Before someone starts yapping how a user cannot be expected to do all that, I already said it is an "enterprise" solution so the IT dept. should be doing it for the user community.
I have been developed workflow solutions on both Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange and I have found Notes to be an amazingly well designed product. The presence of reader name/author name fields and private/public key design makes developing secure applications a snap.
It has it's issues (primarily with the UI) but the latest releases R 6.5 scores well in this area.
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One day, one of the emerging countries (China, India, Brazil) is going to realize how many hurdles are created in innovation and progress due to the greedy nature of the IP laws that US is pushing. That country is going to rationalize their IP laws and become the world leader in knowledge based economy. Our country will huff and puff due to the idiots running the country and the influence that IP whores have in our capital but won't be able to do much. May be someone can make a sci-fi novel out of it. I claim copyright on the idea...wait, never mind :)
I have been developing with Notes for some years and have found out that, with the exception of UI, most complaints can be traced to lack of understanding about Lotus Notes.
It is an enterprise messaging client. To use it effectively, u need a good administrator and good developers. In other words, it is a bit like Linux. Very powerful, very flexible but you need to know what you are doing; it is not designed to protect you from yourself. Note that it does not mean that it cannot be used by idiots; just that it cannot be used by idiots out-of-box you need to customize/enhance the default email template, modify the NOTES.INI etc.
Before someone starts yapping how a user cannot be expected to do all that, I already said it is an "enterprise" solution so the IT dept. should be doing it for the user community.
I have been developed workflow solutions on both Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange and I have found Notes to be an amazingly well designed product. The presence of reader name/author name fields and private/public key design makes developing secure applications a snap. It has it's issues (primarily with the UI) but the latest releases R 6.5 scores well in this area.
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