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Charles B. said 9:38AM on 12-29-2006
But who uses Lotus Notes anymore? It has always struck me as software looking for an application.
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joe said 10:08AM on 12-29-2006
wow, great..... now Mac users can fully appreciate the suckiness that is Lotus Notes that Windows users have known for years.
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Colostomy Bagpiper said 10:22AM on 12-29-2006
FINALLY!
I hate this program but have to use it, and have been for over 10 years. The bugs & glitches really suck, and the support page barely acknowledged that a mac version existed.
Yes, Lotus Notes blows, but at least it is not a Microsoft product.
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This is Me said 10:54AM on 12-29-2006
I used to work with a firm that used this for their international business. It sucked, still sucks. I remember talking to higher-ups at the firm and, when they kept getting reports as to how much it sucked, the response was to keep throwing money at it until it was fixed. I haven't spoken with those guys in years on end, but apparently they're still throwing money at it.
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Chris said 10:57AM on 12-29-2006
This is right up there with Viruses and spyware coming to the Mac.
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Ephraim said 12:02PM on 12-29-2006
Installed it last night as an update over an existing 6.5 client. The installation was perfectly smooth -- it kept all my existing settings and bookmarks, I just had to refresh the link in the Dock. Text rendering is immensely improved -- legible down to 7 point. MacBook delete key works, so you don't have to use fn+delete any more. Trackpad scrolling works. Co-worker tells me that scroll-wheel scrolling works, but poorly. I haven't used it long enough yet to know if it crashes more or less often than before.
As to opinions of Notes in general: Yes, it's a sucky email system. But it's a passable platform for collaborative applications, which my employer uses big time. If you're not using such apps, Notes has nothing for you. If you are, you're in for a love/hate relationship. Or maybe a tolerate/hate relationship.
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Ben Poole said 12:29PM on 12-29-2006
Lotus Notes has been available for the Mac for years. The news here is that the Notes 7.x client has finally been released for the Mac, and it's definitely the best version for the Mac yet.
Notes 7.0.2 *almost* has feature parity with Windoze, and This Is A Good Thing regardless of your opinion about Notes itself.
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Justin Cook said 12:37PM on 12-29-2006
Honestly, I was hoping that this crappy email client would just eventually fade out of existence, not expand cross platform!
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Ozone said 12:44PM on 12-29-2006
My university recently made available Lotus 7.0.2 for Mac and I have to say, it's a vast improvement over the previous Mac version. Having used the Windows version for years now, I have to say it was one of the few programs that actually used to looked better on Windows than Mac, but now the Mac version looks and functions as good, if not better.
That being said, I fully agree with Ephraim's comments about a "tolerate/hate" relationship. Why this program is used by organizations other than massive multinational corporations is absolutely beyond me. It is usable but cumbersome at best and frustrating at worst.
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Dennis J said 3:41PM on 12-29-2006
Can anyone point me to the actual download page? I've painfully searched through IBM's site and came out empty handed.
Thanks!
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Kesey said 7:04PM on 12-29-2006
If your company uses Windows and you can connect via VPN and use Lotus Notes at home with Windows - is there anything stopping you from logging into work and using notes with a Mac?
You should just need your notes id file correct?
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Bruce Elgort said 9:13PM on 12-29-2006
"A trial version of the released Notes 7.0.2 for Mac will be posted to the developerWorks downloads in about a month. In the meantime, Passport Advantage and Business Partners should find it on the downloads site sometime today."
From Ed Brill's blog http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notes-7.0.2-for-mac-ega-today
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Miguel Alemay said 11:04PM on 12-29-2006
Any idea how in the world can one get the client. It is offered as a download in every possible OS in existence... except OSX. A lot of information and testimonials on IBM's site about MAC version of Lotus Notes but no way to get it. The people who have tried it, how did you get it? And if there is a link, can you post? Txs!
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Kesey said 12:42AM on 12-30-2006
Thanks Miguel! I guess it would also be contingent upon your company's VPN allowing a Mac to connect.
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Kesey said 12:44AM on 12-30-2006
FYI - the beta was posted to macnbits (http://beta.macnbits.com)
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Charles said 5:59PM on 12-30-2006
"Co-worker tells me that scroll-wheel scrolling works, but poorly."
Lordy yes. Scroll wheel support has been built in to OSX since, what, 2001? 2002? (Oh, April 2001 - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106258)
Notes 6.5 - here we are in 2006 - doesn't support the scroll wheel. And that's only the beginning of its usability failures. Yet thousands of people are obliged to use it.
Ed Brill tries, but it's very uphill.
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Frank Black said 7:36AM on 12-31-2006
Okay - enough Notes bashing. A decent Mac client from IBM breaks down one more barrier to entry in the corporate world for Apple. Whatever your opinion of Notes is, this is very good news for Mac users.
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Colostomy Bagpiper said 5:59PM on 1-03-2007
a decent Ma client? HA HA HA!
Someone doesn't actually use notes on a Mac, now do they Mr Charles Thomson?
The idea, or purpose of Notes is good -
The software is not. Not at all. It doesn't even take advantages of technologies that have been around for a decade on the Mac platform. What Notes does is just make Macs look bad.
Notes deserves more bashing than a piñata.
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MATH said 2:02PM on 1-06-2007
Have just started to use 7.0.2. It seems a lot slower than 6.5.x. And there is still no support for CE and Cyrillic characters, if I'm not mistaken. How on earth can anyone take this application seriously??
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Sergei Keler said 1:55AM on 1-09-2007
WHEN!!! When Lotus Notes/Macosx will support cyrillics? Why this stupid warez still use iso-8859-5 code page on macosx? How to bring to lotus team mind that nobody in the world use iso cyrillic encoding espesially in macos :-)
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