> That's funny! When I left IBM in 1999 they were aggressively moving > the internal Forums to Bloatus Notes. It was a HORRIBLE implementation > (like all of the conversions from CMS to Bloatus Notes) and people > just plain stopped using the internal Forums (which were, up until > then when running on CMS, a treasure-trove of great information).
Michael: Minor correction, we NEVER even started a move to Notes for THIS application. Some private conferencing moved to Notes, but not the forums. Notes could never have handled the traffic. I remember a meeting with Ray Ozzi where he was amazed at the traffic the TOOLSRUN application on VM could handle. There was an attempt at an application called TOOLSRUN/2 on OS/2, but a better solution came along. The application today is InterNetNews (INN) running on Linux under z/VM. Many of the applications that were initially moved to Notes are now running as web-based applications, primarily to improve remote (i.e. dial-up) response with so many of us working remotely now. PS: I was the author of TalkLink (the customer interface on IBMLink to the IBM forums). Regards, Jim
