Notes 5 does have a RDBMS connector.
John
On Fri, 05 January 2001, Jeffry Houser wrote:
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> FARRAH NG wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> > lotus notes and domino is a pure IBM in house product which is out of
> > sync with today's web technology.
>
> Interesting viewpoint. Actually, Notes was originally coded by
> some stand-alone company, and then bought by Lotus. IBM didn't
> buy Lotus until much later.
>
> I wouldn't want to try to implement a 'shopping cart' type of structure in
> Notes/Domino. As you stated, it's not relational.
>
> It does have it's uses, though. The thing to remember is that Notes was around
> before the web. It's a great for application development, but mediocre for web
> development.
>
> ColdFusion on the other hand, was designed from the ground up for
> web development, and I might add that it excels at it.
>
>
> > I even don't understand why they
> > use flat file system in notes in the very beginning. The way
> > it works
> > is totally like old IBM technology, wrapped within a so called 'web
> > sever'. The core of the programming involves with javascript,
> > VBscript, and most of those domino/notes features like formula,
> > @function, views .... and they are useless skill when you don't work
> > with them anymore. It is totally strange why IBM not even put DB2
> > in notes, insteading using a so called semi-structure file system.
>
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