I wonder if the developers/designers are aware of the common ancestry with Lotus Notes.
I suspect not because it looks like the founders are too young to have even used Notes - my guess is this is a clean reinvention.
I suspect not because it looks like the founders are too young to have even used Notes - my guess is this is a clean reinvention.
People loved or hated Notes.
It was way, way ahead of its time. It was really the very first system that integrated the concept or networking, users, groups, a replicated database, nosql unstructured data, form building and in built security with a sophisticated GUI.
I think it was great if you had departmental developers building stuff, but I hated not being able to make my own forms. And I hated having to open up Notes in 2010 to click a procurement button or a timesheet button. If it was web-based (or had an api) I could have just scripted requests to do the same thing.