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Re: "Notes" to be Eclipsed by "Netscape"
On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
> At 6:52 PM 9/25/95, Jon Lasser wrote:
>
> >Perhaps the Notes pricing scheme is sooo outrageous (by the standards of
> >a student like myself, and probably most others, if it's still anything
> >like it was at the 1.0 release) that mostpeople have had zero opportunity
> >to examine the program, let alone really have time to play with it?
>
> I've never even _seen_ a copy of Notes running on any machine, nor do I
> know directly of _any_ of my colleagues who has. (Not saying nobody has, of
> course, just that I can't find anyone I know well who has.)
I've seen Notes running -- the Major-name discount software chain I used
to work for (peon level) used it for communications. It was slow and
frustrating, but my access to it was only marginal... I certainly hadn't
a chance to examine the code with a debugger, or even just play with it
some. But, knowing the software, it wouldn't surprise me if there were
some serious bugs in the security code.
> My point? Notes is nearly invisible in the non-corporate community I now
> hang out in.
>
> Who knows what weaknesses or bugs it has in it. Folks on our list probably
> don't have much familiarity with it.
Exactly... I think the product is guilty of security through obscurity,
though I'm not sure it's particularly intended, just merely an artifact
of the marketing strategy...
> My hunch is that, as the "Wall Street Journal" reported yesterday, that IBM
> overpaid for Lotus, that the notion of Notes becoming the universal
> collaboration/communication option is flawed.
Agreed. OTOH, before the Web was known, it made a lot of sense for
corporations...
Jon
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