Lotus Notes 8 first impressions
At work, we just started rolling out Lotus Notes 8 to all of our clients. For those under a rock, this is a ground-up rewrite of Notes and it is based on the Eclipse framework. Now, my experience with Eclipse has been almost uniformly horrible, but perhaps that’s just working with Rational tools. Anyway, a few minor observations on my machine (T42p ThinkPad, 2GB RAM):
- Looks a lot better. The old Notes 7 “look and feel”, if you could call it that, was antiquated at best. It felt like a throwback to the early 90s.
- It feels snappier. I don’t know if this is necessarily true, but it is more responsive.
- Integration of Sametime is 1000x better, and finally useful.
- Message “threading” is finally there. If it existed before, I couldn’t find it.
Not all is well, but it’s still a lot better than 7.
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Well, I’m not a fan of Notes, but it’s still an improvement over Exchange, not that that’s saying much. I’m not sure anyone has done much effort to truly improve people’s experience in a long time. As for Sametime, for me at least, it works better than anything else for what I use it for, and it also links into the internal VOIP network.
And in your comment Dennis, “Seriously ‘Sametime’ is not 1000x better, nor useful; unless you only compare this to Notes 7.” it suggests that it is, in fact, 1000x times better. Baby steps to the nth degree. ;)
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That is just the thing though isn’t it; it took until 2008 just to get message threading into notes; basic functionality that had been around for more than a decade everywhere else.
What is IBM to come up with in the next decade? A bayesian spam filter?
Seriously ‘Sometime’ in not 1000x better, nor useful; unless you only compare this to Notes 7.
If you ever have a chance to use software not made by IBM it will stun you how much innovation is stifled out of IBM employees’ by the largest bastion of middle management left in the world.
Dennis