   News:  IBM Adds (parts of) Lotus Notes Code To OpenOffice Project
  I had may daily OMG moment a few minutes ago: from Business Week:Quote:In the latest challenge to Microsoft's stranglehold on the productivity software market, IBM said Monday that it will donate part of the code behind its Lotus Notes package to OpenOffice.org, a Sun Microsystems-backed group that offers open source office software as a free download.IBM officials said the move is part of a broader effort that IBM is undertaking to support OpenOffice.org, which produces free word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software that competes with Microsoft's pricey Office 2007 suite.Now, this is going to please a few zealots, and will amuse tons of people out there, so feel free to read the complete news and to discuss about what may change, why it is good, why it is bad, how it could help the OO project and so on (and I'm sure you'll be civile, polite and well, mature [smile]).   
  I'm not sure if Lotus Notes is a plus.   ;  Yeah, uhmm ... who actually uses Lotus Notes?   ;  That's nothing. Apparently parts of Harvard Graphics are being donated too. PowerPoint, your days are numbered!   ;Quote:Original post by zer0wolfYeah, uhmm ... who actually uses Lotus Notes?I have too. But I'd like to avoid.Anyway, I think the biggest selling point of Notes is the "possibility" to "interop" with a Notes server (and those are widely available in the industry).   ;  I wonder if IBM is planning to deprecate the Lotus Notes client in favor of a Domino/OpenOffice approach.   ;  A friend of mine left my company last year. His new company uses Lotus Notes.He says he occasionally ponders coming back because it's so dreadful to use.   ;Quote:Original post by SneftelI wonder if IBM is planning to deprecate the Lotus Notes client in favor of a Domino/OpenOffice approach.My work uses Lotus Notes :-/ IBM seems to be making the Lotus Notes client the fattest most bloated piece of junkware you could possibly imagine. Version 8 is doing this whole client side portal thing and, style-wise, it looks like a rip-off of the newer versions of Microsoft Outlook.Mmm, yeah, they appear to be doing the opposite of deprecating it :-)   ;  For people who have never worked with Notes and don't think it can be all that bad: http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/index.html;  LOL.While IBM is donating source and resources, can they spare a programmer to de-uglify OpenOffice?   