Lotus Notes or OutLook?

[Train]

I'm surprised Notes is still in such wide use.

I used to be at a company that used Notes, while overall I was annoyed by it, it did have some cool integration features, we did EVERYTHING in Notes, not only email, but you could put in your expenses, billable hours, look up project specs, all kinds of stuff, totally integrated. Whereas most companies on outlook dont go beyond email and scheduling meetings. Notes drawbacks was that it was slow and clunky, not interoperable with ANYTHING outside of its own interface without pulling some seroius teeth.

used Outlook 2003 for years and was very happy with it. User 2007 now and so far its pretty similar. I dont use it in Exchange mode, because I like to integrate my personal emails as well. So I have just get my work emails via pop3 and route them into a work folder.

 

[JackBurton]

I just wanted to pop in and say, I HATE LOTUS NOTES!!

 

[enis083]

Originally posted by: JackBurton
I just wanted to pop in and say, I HATE LOTUS NOTES!!

 

[middlehead]

Current job uses Novell Groupwise, previous job uses Outlook, previous job to that uses Lotus Notes. I use Outlook + Outlook Connector for my Hotmail accounts.

 

[paulxcook]

While I hate Lotus Notes, I will agree with whoever mentioned that it does a crapton of stuff.

 

[Electric Amish]

Outlook at work.

Thunderbird at home.

gMail at work to check my home mail and gmail.

 

[jaqie]

Where is the option for thunderbird?

 

[ultimatebob]

I used Lotus Notes 7 at my old job, but my new job uses Outlook 2003. I miss the database integration in Notes, but Outlook seems a lot quicker and more reliable.

Sametime 7.5 is a much cooler instant messaging tool than Office Communicator is, though! I liked the auto chat transcript saving and employee directory integration features, which saved a lot time looking up phone numbers!

 

[DrPizza]

I used to love Lotus Notes, because it did a "crap ton of stuff." Plus, it had tons upon tons of things for me to play with.

Then, they switched to the web version of Notes to save more money. It blows. What amuses me is that the tech guys have the full version. Whenever I'm chatting with them, I'll casually point out a feature that's missing. "Boy, I wish I was able to..." "Oh, it's easy to do that! All you have to do is..." "Uhh, I know how to do it in Notes. That feature isn't in the web version."

But, I see their point in switching to the cheaper version: only about 1 or 2 people actually used any of the features of the more robust version. I'm not sure if there was a 2nd person besides me.

 

[Howard]

Outlook.

 

[simms]

Outlook FTW. Lotus Notes was a POS.