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Title: Lotus Notes
Post by: Trent on Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:31:08: I just lost 5 hours of work.

(http://www.goodenoughmother.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/angry-computer-guy.jpg)

Is anyone else required to use this wretched program?
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: SmallFry on Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:36:31: Sorry to hear that man. Ever note?
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 18 November 2012, 23:49:24: I used to develop apps for Lotus Notes waaay back. No idea if it is any easier, but it used to be a real pain.

We had an old salesman who came into my office one day and said "I've got a problem with Notus Lotes". Ever since then I've been calling it "Notus Lotes".
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: swagpiratex on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:25:41: People still use that dinosaur of a system?
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: Trent on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:32:54: Quote from: swagpiratex on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:25:41
People still use that dinosaur of a system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Notes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Notes)

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Initial release 1989
Stable release 8.5.3 (October 3, 2011; 13 months ago)

Yep.
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: SmallFry on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:47:55: Holy hell. Haven't they heard of evernote? Jeeez!
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: sth on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:54:26: Quote from: swagpiratex on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:25:41
People still use that dinosaur of a system?

i see you've never worked in enterprise IT.
Title: Re: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: SmallFry on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:59:44: Quote from: sth on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:54:26
Quote from: swagpiratex on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:25:41
People still use that dinosaur of a system?

i see you've never worked in enterprise IT.
'Tis true. I hate how slow my school was to adapt before my boss took over.
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: mickd on Mon, 19 November 2012, 01:52:19: Thankfully everyone at my work place is using outlook now. Though we still have a few users that opt to keep lotus notes around (even if they don't use it anymore).
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: swagpiratex on Wed, 21 November 2012, 11:05:55: Quote from: sth on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:54:26
Quote from: swagpiratex on Mon, 19 November 2012, 00:25:41
People still use that dinosaur of a system?

i see you've never worked in enterprise IT.

Yea I'm in finance. My previous employer was using Lotus Notes when I was working in the Fixed Income Dept.
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: inlikeflynn on Wed, 21 November 2012, 12:24:19: I was so glad when I left IBM to never have to use Lotus Notes again. Best part now is hearing the sob stories from the people still using it :(
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: Lanx on Wed, 21 November 2012, 12:35:26: i know an engineer in a fortune 500 company up until last year they still used lotus, just switched to the microsoft suite, the reason, there were too many complaints from the contrators (of 10 years) that they have to deal with lotus files and conversions.

oh, but they are still fighting to use xp, new dell laptops get downgraded from windows 8 to win xp, i laugh and say, then what is the point of these laptops having 6gb of ram lol.
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: davkol on Wed, 21 November 2012, 14:00:58: Quote from: Lanx on Wed, 21 November 2012, 12:35:26
oh, but they are still fighting to use xp, new dell laptops get downgraded from windows 8 to win xp, i laugh and say, then what is the point of these laptops having 6gb of ram lol.
PAE? 64bit WinXP?

Quote from: mickd on Mon, 19 November 2012, 01:52:19
Thankfully everyone at my work place is using outlook now. Though we still have a few users that opt to keep lotus notes around (even if they don't use it anymore).
Much better. -_-
Title: Re: Lotus Notes
Post by: hoggy on Wed, 21 November 2012, 14:24:26: Still using it at work. It's what you get used to I guess.