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Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at 5:35:34 AM Pacific

More Comments on Notes

From David Gewirtz, david@component-net.com:

  1. Lotus is actively migrating from Notes to Domino. To them, Notes is legacy.

  2. Replication is deeper than it appears at first glance. This is serious technology that they gave serious thought to.

  3. To us, the Notes UI sucks. To many corporate users, it's a gift from heaven. When I first looked at Notes for my book and then interviewed Notes users, I was amazed by how enthusiastic rank and file users were about it.

  4. Notes has intense security and access control technology. This is another area where it stands out.

  5. If you're trying to learn about Notes, definitely pay attention to Domino. It's a form of content-driven web publishing that some people are going bonkers over.

  6. There's a pretty deep developer community out there called "Business Partners". Not clear how profitable they are as a group, but they're dedicated to the Notes/Domino strategy.

Now, some comments. You could use Frontier to build content for Domino servers, but the paradigm conflict would be pretty intense to get over.

Notes is a pretty inward-looking environment. But there is a lot of data-sharing going on, and it might make sense to read Notes data (somewhat hard) or be reachable from within the Domino server.

Honestly, though, rather than developing specific code, I think you'd do best to simply be conversant with Notes/Domino so that you can communicate on a level field with the Business Partners who are steeped in this stuff.

See also: Michael Norman on Notes.


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