ITWorld Canada: Is it over for Outlook?
Tags :Outlook Thunderbird Lotus Notes
I thought maybe it was a review of the new Outlook 12, but it was simply some opinion of their switch to Thunderbird and IMAP. Now the comments on Lotus Notes caught my eye though.
Until recently, we used Lotus Notes in the PC Advisor offices. It's not the nicest of programs to use by any stretch, and some things can be excruciatingly hard to achieve, but one thing it did well was providing access to your mail wherever you were.
All messages were stored on the server until you chose to archive or delete them. On each computer you used to access your inbox, you could choose to view the messages on the server directly - fine if you're on the office network, not so good over the internet - or synchronize a copy on your system with the server.
Later they go into calendaring, which then leads me to believe that they don't do any. If Thunderbird has local calendaring and there is no proper backend, where does the ease of using such an application come into play? How hard was Lotus Notes for them that they could not master that? Yet they state right above at how easy it was to get your mail anywhere? What could possibly be excruciatingly hard to achieve? Why was the remote access so hard, maybe it was your network there? I wish they had made some comments around that. Better yet, maybe we can comment back. (registration was free on the site).
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On Thursday, April 27th, 2006 by Chris Miller
