[bhaak]

Oh, yay, another reinvention of e-mail.

I'm so excited ... not.

Maybe if they finally would be able to implement 30 year technology correctly or being really innovative and dump all the crud that accumulated over the years instead then I could maybe hope a little.

OTOH, it's from IBM. They know how to do e-mail. They have Lotus Notes.

[cfontes]

The lotus notes thing was like kicking a dead dog. <sarcasm> No need for it... </sarcasm>

[NDizzle]

Laugh at Notes/Domino all you want. It was ahead of its time. If it had a pretty GUI it would have played out differently.

[cpwright]

One of the things I was only belatedly appreciative about Lotus notes was the experience on Linux. While I was at IBM, I used Lotus notes on Windows, then on Linux. The Linux version did occasionally crash; but overall the experience was similar to a Windows user.

The next company I worked at used Exchange, and developers could use Outlook webmail or an IMAP client like Thunderbird. I found this experience to be substandard; both from a perspective of consistency with managers who had Outlook and found calendaring to be pretty awful compared to Lotus notes.

This might be less important now that you can have your Calendar integrated into your smart phone, but I did not have a smart phone at the time.