My wife thinks this was a pretty dumb thing to do. I think it’d be wise for me to convert my future rantings into “constructive criticism” posts. I can do that.

Ed, thanks for the tip. I have to be fair and say Notes 8 is a huge improvement over 7.

Markus, I work at a software lab. We know what makes good software and what makes bad software. When we got acquired by IBM and were forced to go through this migration, you would not believe the sheer volume of negative comments. I could pick a few random strangers in the elevator and EASILY start a slug-fest beating up Notes. It is an absolute GIVEN that the random strangers will agree that the UI is bad and the performance is bad and the design paradigm is bad and ON AND ON AND ON.

I can’t argue with $2B (if that’s the real number, I need to look that up), that’s for sure. It makes money. It serves a purpose, it fills a need, yadda yadda. But Oh My God I pity every person on the planet that has to use it. There are so many other better written programs out there that do the same thing. Ok, that’s not quite fair, there are not that many which do all that Notes / Domino does. The answer to that is like “two”, but still. (I’m thinking Microsoft Exchange and maybe Oracle Collaboration Suite.) There are many, many examples of better written programs that do either all or a subset of Notes’s functionality. I will explore these comparisions in the coming months, I think.

And as far as looking for a new job–naaah, I like my job. I don’t work in the Lotus division.

Thanks for the comment, you have a good weekend, too.