RIP Bloated Goats (Lotus Notes)

[The_Librarian]

IBM announced last night that it is selling the final components from its 1995 acquisition of Lotus to Indian firm HCL for $1.8 billion. IBM paid $3.5 billion for Lotus back in the day. The big pieces here are Lotus Notes, Domino and Portal.

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[Pineapple Smurf]

Yoh, Lotus Notes, name from the past.
Use to install it on all my clients computers back in the late 90s when I worked for IBM in London.

Best part of Lotus Notes was you could type out your email and enter a date and time of when the email must be delivered. You click Send and off it goes and you can shut down your computer and leave the office early.
My daily reports always got delivered to my boss after 5pm everyday

 

[Dolby]

At my last company (2014!) I joined ... And they had decided to use IBM Notes. It was a terrible system and incompatible with everything that most others used (ie Outlook) .

I felt like back in 90a when I was at work

 

[TelkomUseless]

IBM notes sucked donkey kong...

 

[sajunky]

At my last company (2014!) I joined ... And they had decided to use IBM Notes. It was a terrible system and incompatible with everything that most others used (ie Outlook) .

I felt like back in 90a when I was at work

Incompatible with Outlook. What was Outlook comparing to Notes? .LOL.
Notes could replace everything else in a business, but it required to setup a business collaboration plan to see all benefits. If you didn't, it was just an Email program (like Outlook).

 

[ToxicBunny]

Incompatible with Outlook. What was Outlook comparing to Notes? .LOL.
Notes could replace everything else in a business, but it required to setup a business collaboration plan to see all benefits. If you didn't, it was just an Email program (like Outlook).

Notes was stuck in the 90's.... I worked with it in one of the big banks and it was painful in the extreme

 

[Dolby]

Incompatible with Outlook. What was Outlook comparing to Notes? .LOL.
Notes could replace everything else in a business, but it required to setup a business collaboration plan to see all benefits. If you didn't, it was just an Email program (like Outlook).

If, for example, we'd get a meeting request from an outside client ... it wouldn't display properly. Or if we get a mail from an external marketing company, the formatting wouldn't display correctly. IBM Notes <> IBM Notes worked and it had a few nifty features - but no one outside the company used it and things often screwed up. hat was 90% of the time

And if I remember my biggest issue with it was not being able to do format paint !

 

[The_Librarian]

Wonder where will those who still use Bloated Goats get their support from?

 

[OCP]

Wonder where will those who still use Bloated Goats get their support from?

Some very friendly Indian will be calling them shortly ;-)

 

[sajunky]

IBM Notes <> IBM Notes worked and it had a few nifty features

It worked as intended. It was an internal collaboration software.

Very sophisticated and innovative these days. I worked on it when it was still called Lotus Notes. What happened later, I don't know.

 

[The_Librarian]

Some very friendly Indian will be calling them shortly ;-)

Hope IBM did let their customers know, otherwise their ex-customers will treat that as a spam/harassment call

 

[Compton_effect]

Some very friendly Indian will be calling them shortly ;-)

From their Call Center in Chicago. Don't laugh - I know a voice coach who had a very lucrative contract teaching call center operators in Mumbai how to sound like an American.

 

[The_Librarian]

It worked as intended. It was an internal collaboration software.
Very sophisticated and innovative these days. I worked on it when it was still called Lotus Notes. What happened later, I don't know.

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