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
>
>
> 

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