Re: CRUD (almost) to the masses
There may be reasons for differences, but Notes HTML email compatibility was left standing in the dust. Standards moved on, Notes did not, and this is the comparison I meant: I've seen side by side comparisons of emails where hafl the message went missing, for.... no good reason, the Notes rendering engine just coughed and died, and forgot to render the page. Or the HTML message got borked and decided to have a margin down the left side of the message to the middle, so you could only see 50% of every line... or it would misplace an image logo in a signature, and blow that in the dead center of the page, directly over your content.
If I remember correctly, Notes didnt natively render HTML, but coerced HTML into RTF, and, like Outlook up to 2016, carried on using the rendering engine of the previous century.
Also, IBM licencing fees were insane compared to anything else, and getting a location document set up for POP & IMAP was far from as easy as getting Outlook set up to use an Exchange-free email setup.
So, end result; As much as the corporate overlords may have had their reasons, when the sales team cannot read their client's emails, and when the director cannot read his mistresses missives, the company gets a swift overhaul.
Which in the end is a shame, because companies judged Notes for email, when email was only a tiny part of what the Notes/Domino environment was capable of doing.