Microsoft Outlook ranked 7th, Lotus Notes 1763rd
Category wakoopa Notes Outlook
I came across an interesting site over the weekend called wakoopa, the site tracks what applications you use, how often and for how long. Obviously the rankings of the system are flawed to a certain extend because, you have to install some software to do the tracking, and it can only track people that installed it. So the numbers it reflects cannot show real usage. What I found interesting was that Microsoft Outlook (not express) was ranked 7th as the most used application and Lotus Notes was raked 1,763rd. Quite a difference. This got me to thinking, if every IBMer installed the little tracked, the number of Notes users being tracked on the system would increase dramatically and Notes could get a much more respectable position, and in the process show how flawed the system actually is.
I came across an interesting site over the weekend called wakoopa, the site tracks what applications you use, how often and for how long. Obviously the rankings of the system are flawed to a certain extend because, you have to install some software to do the tracking, and it can only track people that installed it. So the numbers it reflects cannot show real usage. What I found interesting was that Microsoft Outlook (not express) was ranked 7th as the most used application and Lotus Notes was raked 1,763rd. Quite a difference. This got me to thinking, if every IBMer installed the little tracked, the number of Notes users being tracked on the system would increase dramatically and Notes could get a much more respectable position, and in the process show how flawed the system actually is.
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This is supported by the fact that if you search for "Notes" in their search, the Notes client for Mac is called "Notes," but the Windows client is "IBM Lotus Notes/Domino" and a lot of the users using that are using 8.5 releases or strange builds of 8. There are also lots of strange version numbers, like 3.26.1.2248, 2.21, 2.6 and 1.0.1703.0.
And even #1 Firefox is only 20,000 or so humans. Definitely tech-heads. If we got 1/8 of IBM and 1/100 of the customers to install this thing, we could crown the Notes client king of the world and demand that Network World write a big article about it.
Posted by Turtle At 04:54:29 PM On 10/28/2008 | - Website - |
In other words, what software you run when you aren't worried about security.
Enough said.
Posted by Maria Helm At 08:33:48 AM On 10/29/2008 | - Website - |
This is never gonna happen Carl, and you know the reasons perfectly well.
Besides, I agree with comments #1 and #2, we have much better things to do than waste time trying to increase the visibility of our products on silly websites.
RoB
Posted by Roberto Boccadoro At 09:55:04 AM On 10/29/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Chris Miller At 10:57:45 AM On 10/29/2008 | - Website - |