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Why this IBMer hates Lotus Notes...

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I imagine this IBMer is going to have a lot of friends in his own company soon...especially as this is Part I which implies there will be more parts. Amazing that he blogs his hatred now, the day Notes 8 ships, versus blogging about it back when teh design could be changed/impacted.

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Gravatar Image1 - I'm just looking at the blog and wondering what this person is supposed to know about design.

Gravatar Image2 - seems a lot of people have now read the post. the author has made a few "adjustments"

Gravatar Image3 - Looks like his wife said "No sex for you" and someone at IBM cranked the vice on his balls a bit tighter.

Gravatar Image4 - Yeah, posts like those, we should know by now, they should be labelled "How To Crank Up Your Blog Hits Big Time". I'm almost sure that unless it's Vowe, who really have enough hits already :), any hateblogging on Notes is really aimed to be a blog Viagra.

Gravatar Image5 - Oops, sorry, that came out wrong, I didn't mean to imply Vowe does negative blogging on Notes, his comments, in my eyes, are all usually well founded in fact.

Gravatar Image6 - I'm still laughing at this bit on that site:

We know what makes good software and what makes bad software

Yeah right. That website is the fugliest darn blog I've ever seen...

Gravatar Image7 - like most, I found the blog posting through technorati or google blogsearch. I left a simple comment, then got pinged on Sametime by the blog author.

I absolutely did -not- tell him to tone it down, though I did suggest he read the IBM blogging guidelines. He said his wife thought he was committing "career suicide", which I said was a bit of an overstatement. Nonetheless, he chose, without prompting, to tone it down. And he also said he'd download Notes 8 and reconsider his comments...

Gravatar Image8 - Sounds like he's frustrated at being 'acquired' by IBM.
Most of us hate change, especially forced ones to the way we've probably worked for years.

Gravatar Image9 - Wish I'd found this site earlier so I could interact with you guys! Let me respond in kind...

@Nathan: I have long since given up pretending to know anything about design. If you look at my blog archives, you'll see I haven't written about web design in a long while. Besides, I was never creative--only well-versed on HTML/CSS syntax. I really need to re-word my blog sub-title.

@Carl: "no sex for you" was about right. :p Seriously, it was a stressful weekend--I really was worrying about my job for a couple of days.

@Adeleida: Sorry, you've missed the mark. I've never written anything publically about Notes before, and I while I do have a little bit of a blog ego when I find people do visit my site, I don't actively go solicit traffic.

@Ben: you didn't read any of my articles obviously. But that's besides the point, I am not a developer, nor a software designer. I'm an IT Engineer. I have nothing to do with making software. However--I am a software abuser and I know good software from bad--I'll challenge anyone on that. P.S., I need a new template but it's not high on my todo.

@Dad (not my real one I hope, he's passed on!): I've only been with IBM for roughly as long as ISS was acquired, so this doesn't truly apply to me either. I'm an old HP'er for real.

Gravatar Image10 - Oh I almost forgot the funniest part--I didn't know Notes 8 was being shipped on the day I made my post. :) I didn't find that out till I got in touch with Ed Brill later that day. The timing of my post was totally coincidental. I was just doing what I do every morning--firing up email. As what usually happens when I start Notes, I noticed something new that I disliked about it and just had to rant. As nobody was in the office that early in the day, it made its way out to my heretofore mostly unvisited blog.

It's also funny to read all these assumptions people make about me on so little information.

I don't know who this 'Vowe' guy is but all of my comments were well thought out. Feel free to contact me if you like.

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