Any use Lotus Notes?

[DieScum]

Started at a place that uses Lotus Notes 8.5.

Wow. Just wow. It's like something from the 90s.

Slow as hell. Terrible user interface. Slow. Loads of functionality just not there. Slow. Loads of useless functionality including. Slow.

Did a search on 'speeding up Lotus notes' and found some random blogs blog tips which worked a bit... but nothing from IBM.

Has anyone ever had to use this amazing software?

[MarillionFan]

It's shocking. Client uses it at the moment and the worse thing is when it crashes. It won't restart. You'll need to take out one of the programs running in memory.(Cant remember which off the top of my head), but just so you know. Oh and the calendar. Dont get me started.

[Troll]

Current client using it & occasionally run into it at other sites

Dire, counter-intuitive and as you say like something from the 90s.

[DieScum]

This lot have a killnotes.exe file to kill the notes process when it hands and refuses to do anything. FFs if you have to have that for a mission critical app is it not a bad sign?

[wobbegong]

Used it about 5 years ago. Horrendous, mailboxes seemed to be regularly corrupt, crap interface and generally difficult to work with.

Incidentally, the reseller went to the wall 3 years ago, so maybe word is getting around; "don't touch Lotus Notes with a barge pole".

[the_rangdo]

Started at a place that uses Lotus Notes 8.5.

Wow. Just wow. It's like something from the 90s.

My Clientco is on 7.0.1

[SimonMac]

I love Notes/Domino, so much more configurable than Outlook and Exchange, but then again I was the domain admin so had carte blanche to do set it up exactly how I wanted it )

[oracleslave]

This lot have a killnotes.exe file to kill the notes process when it hands and refuses to do anything. FFs if you have to have that for a mission critical app is it not a bad sign?

Same here. You in central London near Regents Park by any chance?

[Scrag Meister]

Finished with Notes in 2008.
Was a reasonable platform for app distribution, had quite a few tools that we based in my workspace.


Sametime gone, Notes gone.
Communicator in, Outlook in.

[DieScum]

Same here. You in central London near Regents Park by any chance?

Nah, Sydney.