[Nannooskeeska]

Little anecdote.

At my dad's old company, where he'd been for almost 25 years, they still used Lotus Notes. About a year ago, he moved to a new company that uses Office, and he hates it (old dog, new tricks, etc.). His old company is still the only company I've ever personally had experience with that still uses Lotus Notes.

Is it that bad?

[sk5t]

Notes is itself pretty remarkable, but suffers from a peculiar UI + dysfunctional efforts from two sides in development (people who wish it was a RDBMS not a document database, and people who don't really have any business writing application code). The complaints about it being kind of an ugly email client are not really of the essence. In addition, IBM has pretty much left it to rot on the vine since the early 2000s. I think "R5" was the last release of any real significance, and even that was not revolutionary.

[discreteevent]

Here's how bad it is: In the mail editor you are lucky if you can undo one change. Multiple undo is out of the question.