Previous versions of Notes had a RDBMS connector available from Lotus,
as well as a handful of third party apps to do that. R5 was supposed to
have one built in, but I had never used any of them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Notes 5 does have a RDBMS connector.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, 05 January 2001, Jeffry Houser wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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