13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
9:55 p.m.
...
The HMO I work for has standardized on Lotus Notes. I
thought
I would never say it, but ... I liked Outlook better. See
what depths Notes has driven me to?
It tries to do too much, which I guess would not be
unexpected for IBM.
Don't blame IBM for that. Lotus created it. You remember that saying that
men are from Mars & women are from Venus? The guys that created Notes are
from Pluto. When I first used it was with a Windows 3.0
client and the
keyboard interface was totally hosed. Keys that everyone was used to
doing
some particular thing like the home key or the end key would do something
totally bizarre like go to the end of the page. Not only that, there was no
facility for remapping the keyboard.
Actually Notes has some interesting features in its ability to access
structured databases on a pull basis while still delivering email on a push
basis. In certain environments dealing with a big pile of "notes" it really
does a good job of letting you organize them in a hierarchical way. I worked
for several years for a company that used it and it was fantastic for that
job.
Gil