For further examples try working on a DB2 z/OS system sometime. Puke.
I am soooo not an IBM fan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:10 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Lotus Notes Question > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:48 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Lotus Notes Question > > > > Your response reminds me of how many people view ColdFusion. > > Apples and stinking piles of crap. > > > I think Notes is pretty powerful for document management / workflow > > applications. Unfortunately, as an e-mail client it is > lacking. As a web > > development platform, it is (or at least was) a poor choice. > > It may be powerful for a documentation management system... too bad it's > sold as a PIM and collaboration tool. ;^) > > > Allowing to sort by subject is as easy as clicking a checkbox when > > designing the view. Displaying time, also, should have been relatively > > trivial for a Notes Developer. Unfortunately, I wouldn't > expect that most > > places would allow you to modify the mailbox template. > > What? You have to "design a view" to sort your email by subject? And you > think that's simple? > > Every other email program on the planet has been able to do this > by CLICKING > THE SUBJECT HEADER for over 10 years. > > And that's far from the sole objection to this mass of offal. How come I > can single click an icon in the "shortcut bar" but I must double click an > icon in the workspace (even tho' the icon clearly responds to a single > click)? > > How come when I multi-select items they're not selected? Instead I get a > graphical checkbox in a column? > > How come the "Attachment Popup" has ellipsis next to each command > when there > is no more information needed to perform the task? And why the fuck is > there an "Attachment Popup" in the first place? > > How come meeting notices are so god-damned complicated? "Do I want to > delete the meeting notice from this view or remove it?" What the hell? > > Here are more: > > http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/index.html > > Notes is perhaps the worst example of user interface design ever foisted > upon an unsuspecting public by a major vendor. > > IBM, as usual, took a powerful back-end system and slathered on complexity > to generate a UI for the engineers of that back-end rather than end-users. > > See Rational Rose and WebSphere Application Developer for more examples of > this. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216393 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
