[geeks] Lotus Notes

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jun 11 14:35:03 CDT 2002


On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:12:32AM -0700, Fogg, James wrote:
> OK, I honestly hate Slotus Bloats.

Well, we wouldn't want you to dis-honestly hate Lotus Notes.
 
> Actually I hate any variety of what I call "SuitWare". Software that exists
> mostly to give suits something to cluster around and go gee-wiz about, but
> it never really does anything but reinforce some of the careers of the
> anointed. Long implementation periods followed by no real value, no work
> done and no return on investment. Some ERP implementations are like this too
> (disclaimer: many ERP systems are great things, but are poorly implemented
> and grossly underestimated in scope of resources required to make them
> work). One really good indicator of suitware is that by the time the
> software is implemented it is irrelevant to the market and the vendor
> doesn't do anything to update it and make it fit the real world.


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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