* Posts by PaDuOne

4 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2018

HCL picks up Notes, spanks total of $1.8bn at Honest John's IBM software sale

PaDuOne

Re: IT support bonanza

Your IT probably did not tell you 'secret' about possibility to turn on search indexing?

PaDuOne

Re: Why all the hate?

You are mixing apples with oranges. Notes is not just simple email / calendar app just like Outlook. If you were using it just for email then yes, it might be pain in the ass. But if you learned to use it it was pretty powerful tool even just for emails. Unfortunately not much user friendly sort of like LaTeX...

PaDuOne

Re: That's a lot of notes for Notes

There are ANY 'real' Notes apps for Android nor iOS. The Notes client doesn't exist for these platforms as far as I know...

PaDuOne

Re: Never Got To Grips with Notes....

You were either using something else then Notes or whoever setup the environment for you had maybe just one more Notes training then you had :). One of the biggest strengths of Notes was easy control of access based on roles and groups. Trained monkey could have set it up with few clicks. There are no 'logins'. You only 'login' to Notes client once and you can then access any Domino server that is able to recognize you. Actually that login is nothing more then password for so called notes id file which is actually certificate that holds all necessary information about you (same as the certs some ppl are using to access eg bank accounts or sign/encrypt the mail). That was all built-in more then 20 years ago in Notes and only thing that was making ppl mad was poor UI that did not improved much over those 20 years. They tried to suit up Notes by using Java/html/css etc but at the core the poor UI was still there. Even Domino designer ment for developers did not get much options for customization however even non-programmer could easily start programming workflows and apps (and on user level you are able to do lot of stuff and automation using lotus script).

Btw. Notes DBs are actually first NoSQL databases...