Lotus Notes is 20!

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Ed Brill reminded me today that Lotus Notes just turned 20. Didn't it grow up fast? I first started using is back in 1996, but since 1999 I can say I've used it every single working day, so I've known it for half its life. How nice.

In that time, I've sent mails, used application databases on it, chatted in it, replicated mailfiles and other DBs on it, collaborated through it, designed applications and LotusScript doodahs for it, installed it, upgraded it, customized it, loved it, hated it, swore I'd never work with it again, and then did the very next day.

No matter how much I've criticised Notes (and found myself nodding along with this guy), I probably wouldn't use Outlook over it. Obviously, there's integration to consider in some cases, and if you're in a Microsoft shop with Office, Sharepoint and the rest, you might have other needs, but in a mixed shop, or an IBM one, it's probably the best choice. The majority of Fortune 500 companies seem to think so.

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