Re:Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux
by JoshTriplett on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:07PM
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The best description of Lotus Notes I ever heard was "It's like using Microsoft Access with VBA as your email client and calendar". (Plus random forms and "applications" that should have been on the web instead.)
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I built notes database applications a while back in may career. It’s kinda a no sql data store with clunky front end (cross platform as mentioned elsewhere) and lotus script.
After working in it for a while I’d start to notice the Notes email and calendar are just specialized notes applications. It’s not the best..
Notes preceded the web by many years.
At some point in time there was something called Domino (or more precisely Lotus Domino Server).
Basically it was a server for Lotus Notes solutions. You could flick a switch, and then you turned your Notes-based solutions into web-applications.
It seems it still exists in some form: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/08/hcl_domino_12_debuts/
You were retrofit your idea back to one of the integrated idea sharing platform, with security, ease of programming (by user and not IT guys like us) … I still do not see any close to it thing even today.