Rant: (new) IBM partner software download
Tags :Rant
Knowing that everyone cannot access the site
partners use to download software, I did not link it. But I am tossing
a small screenshot. What happened is that you used
to jump to a Notes database for the Software Catalog for electronic download
of software. Now recently I have not had to download anything until
this past weekend. It seems they changed over to an all IBM software
delivery of some sort and searching sucks and never returns what is usually
expected.
No, it really sucks. A customer wanted
some to load a Macintosh for a new or upgraded user. I entered Mac,
then tried OSX and then tried Mac Notes only to find nothing returned.
So I went the long route and did 6.5.4 Notes and got way too many
results only to find Mac not on the page. Here is the screenshot
for Mac and all I got was 2 Websphere returns for Fortran. Fortran!
You have 3 possible choices of searching.
By product number (yeah right), By search text (tried that) and by
Categories. So I went this route last week and did not have the best
luck, it returned far too many results but I finally found what I wanted.
So I tried again today.
I limited the search to:
- Download method: Download Director
- Search brands: Lotus Software
- Product names: Notes/Domino
- Languages: English International, English US
- Platforms: Apple Macintosh Operating System, Apple UX (Apple)
- Date posted: Within past 1 year
I expected a small listing of returned results. Instead I still got numerous operating systems with 9 eAssemblies and 224 products. We all know there is not 224 Mac products posted in the last year!
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On Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 by Chris Miller
