Posted on 10/03/2009 3:15:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
IBM is taking on Google in the cloud-computing based hosted business email service with LotusLive iNotes, which will be offered beginning Monday. Software as a service is a popular option for companies that want to rent, instead of buy, software and Google has been a big player in that area.
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IBM, based in New York State, is playing up its reputation as a business technology veteran and launching iNotes with “aggressive” pricing of three dollars per employee per month.
IBM’s Lotus Notes is the biggest hunk of software crap on the planet, right next to IBM’s Rational software suite.
NOTHING from IBM is of any professional quality value. Their software looks like it was written by third graders.
Go Big Blue !!
“IBM’s Lotus Notes is the biggest hunk of software crap on the planet, right next to IBM’s Rational software suite.”
I used Lotus Notes for years when I worked for IBM and I hate it.
Google needs some big competition.
Yes, and I would LOVE to see IBM get very active in the Internet/Email/Search world.
Anything to hurt Google, but Notes has sucked from day one.
But yes, I worked with Notes (used to be owned by Lotus in the old days) and it has always sucked.
I almost didn’t take my current job when I found out they use Notes. Notepad is more advanced, stable and user friendly than Notes.
I’m a former IBMer, too, and disliked Notes as well. Most of the other software in the IBM portfolio was cobbled together from other stuff they bought.
Actually, IBM acquired Lotus about 15 years ago. They didn’t actually BUY Notes.
That might be true of their PC software but their large systems operating systems hardware is in a word bulletproof. So I would not make a blanket statement like that.
I work on large IBM systems and the ORACLE folks are just pea green with envy over the reliability of the Power systems and the I operating system with DB2.
Technology is like a salad bar you use whats' good and whats' good for you and leave the rest.
Regards...
Having worked with big iron for several decades, I am not impressed. Microprocessor based systems have been just as reliable and effective, and, yes, I have personally built as large, scalable, and high performance database systems as anything I have worked on for a mainframe. I am not impressed with IBM in any way. It is jsut another large corporation where the execs don’t even know what they sell.
We are in the process to move to Exchange, thank God. I run Exchange for myself and find I can connect and communicate in way and places Notes never even thought about. Love or hate Exchange, at least it isn’t written like a bunch of third graders wrote it like all IBM products. Is there anything IBM does that doesn’t look like they hire the retarded?
Even people I know who have jumped to ORACLE clustered systems don't claim that its more reliable than a Power system on the I OS.
” I never have heard of anyone who was on a mainframe or a power system say what you are saying. “
Then you need ot talk to people outside of mainframe land.
Can you read? You misquoted me. Let me clarify for you. I know of people who were on mainfraimes and midrange IBM systems and those people would never say ORACLE and LINUX are more reliable. The fact is they are not. I know this from personal experience from working in an IT department for 30 years with multiple operating systems and various hardware.
Come on out of that PC head land, where people think the whole world runs on LINUX and windows. It does not. If you want your data safe and sound DB2 is king. And nothing moves large quantities of data safely like DB2. I can't tell you how many times I have seen ORACLE go belly up over the years and lose the data. Or when a virus goes through the PC's and servers in a company leaving wreckage all around but the Power system and "I" OS was still standing. And most importantly the data is safe.
And by the way The Power system with "I" operating system is not a mainframe. Look it up.
Obviously you hate everything IBM and thats OK but admit that your view is from a childlike point of view that thinks everything from IBM is evil. Someone who is wise knows that there is room in an IT department for "MULTIPLE" platforms. The best tool for the best job.
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