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Lotus gauging Mac demand for new Notes

updated 11:45 pm EST, Sun February 25, 2001

 
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Lotus is currently conducting a survey to gauge customer interest in having it develop a Mac-compatible version of the next Notes Client. "We have been developing for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. We are currently engaged in an effort to re-evaluate our customers' need and the market demand for a Macintosh version of this next feature release. One important input to our re-evaluation effort is asking you to complete the attached survey."


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    02/26, 12:31am | report spam | Reply | delete

    Are you deaf?!

    Duh... for pete's sake.. damn it, of course we want Lotus to continue supporting Notes Client for both Mac OS 9.x and Ten!

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    notes

    who cares. stick with windows. we only want functional software with decent interfaces on the mac.

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    More than support...

    How about better support and a client that doesn't suck up so much ram?

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    herm

    while having notes on the mac would be kewl. I think the larger issue here is, why notes ? Notes marketshare is waning, not to M$ exchange mind you, but to the open standards found on the net.

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    Survey for Dummies

    I wonder what these Notes-guys want.
    In order to express my love for the Mac, I was going to fill in (out?) the survey. But they only want to know if, and when, I'm going to be able to buy x-copies from them, foir which department etc.
    So I stopped filling in (out?).

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    Survey not meant for us

    It seemed to me that the survey was meant for people who admin or implement Notes, not users. Trouble is, Notes on the Mac is just as ungainly and complicated as it is on the PC. If they just figured out how to make the interface less unintuitive and the set-up faster, I'm sure more people would use the mac client.

    The 4.6 client I use at work on the PC platform can, at best, be considered retarded. However, our implementation of the software could have been weak as well. My biggest gripe is the slowness of the replication (and the fact that you get all or nothing) as well as the glacial name-lookup for the auto-fill. In an organization as small as ours (only 3500 people), a lookup shouldn't take more than a few milliseconds.

    The archive function is pathetic, as it doesn't even have the brains to setup folders with the same names, structure, etc. Thus, auto-archive and never find your stuff again, or do it manually. Since my compoany does not really use the other functions of Notes beyond e-mail, I wonder what the point was of switching over in the first place. Perhaps 5.X is a better product, but I doubt it.

    On the other hand, at least it isn't Outlook and as exposed to every kiddie-script virus that 2 year olds can dream of. However, I am much happier with Powermail at home than I am with Notes at work. If my company ever used the other capabilities of Notes... that might be a new ballgame.

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    Please, make them stop

    I would cheer it from the rafters if Lotus announced that they are stopping producing Notes, and will go around and remove the client from every Mac that it's installed on, all the while offering fulsome apologies.

    We have 300 here at my company and it causes a daily procession of screen lockups, crashes and Type 1 errors. (G4s and OS 9, if you're wondering.) An exec in charge of money here got so sick of it that every time Lotus crashed the machine, an IT-ling was summoned to deal with it, in person.
    Now, we hear that Notes is going to be replaced as a client by something like OE. No tears will be shed.

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    Lotus Notes Sucks...

    ...on ANY platform. Can I fill out a survey requesting they take Notes out of existence and pay restitution to every poor soul who ever had to use it?

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    Please die, Lotus Notes

    There was a time at my college (two years ago) when we had a choice between Pine Mail (text-based) and Eudora (or another POP3 client). Everyone was happy. But Lotus came in and paid off one of our higher-up IT people to tell us all that in a few years our e-mail servers would become overwhelmed, and we should switch everyone to Lotus Notes. We could use either the LN client or a POP3 client, but all mail would be routed through the wonderful Lotus e-mail server, making everything oh-so-fast.

    Ha! All it caused was slowdowns, headaches, and e-mail outages (i.e., many e-mails weren't just delayed, they simply were never delivered at all, without any notification to the person who sent it). Because of the whole debacle many people requested that their e-mail be forwarded to Yahoo! or Hotmail accounts (for some reason forwarded e-mails still came through even when the Lotus server ones didn't). The person whom Lotus had bribed was then fired from her position (maybe "bribe" is an exaggeration, but she certainly thought she--and the university--would get something out of it).

    Now they're phasing out Lotus Notes and switching to a web-based e-mail service (aside from the tried-n-true POP3), which everyone likes.

    Rot in h***, Lotus Notes.

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    Worst Collaboration

    Notes is the worst software of it's kind I've ever used.But... excellent job security for many, many IT hacks. Put it on the Mac, then put it out of it's misery.

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