If you want a very technical description of some of the inner workings of Notes, try reading Inside Notes (if you can't find it there, search Google for insidenotes.pdf). I know it's not complete, but my intent was to provide a quick overview instead of a description of the entire feature set.Ī good overview of the Lotus Notes/Domino product is also available on the IBM website, in a document called " The History of Lotus Notes and Domino".
Everyone will want to customize these descriptions based on their own knowledge, personality, and situation, but maybe it will give you a good starting point for understanding or explaining the application. I've written two different versions of this description: one for managers, and one for technical people. This is my attempt to give a slightly more complete description of the Lotus Notes product. Often times, these conversations are more heavily biased in one direction or another, and they are usually accompanied by certain amounts of huffing and puffing based on preconceived notions about various things, but that's pretty much it.
I think I'll have to show you some sample applications." That's what makes it such a powerful workflow application." But it's packaged so that you don't see all those separate components individually. "Then it's like Exchange, SQL Server, Access, Visual Basic, and IIS all wrapped together?"
It's also got support for several programming languages, and a web server component that allows you to access the data from a web browser." "Okay, so how do I manipulate the data? Write an Access front-end or something?" "Probably nothing you should worry about. It's more of a flattened data structure." "No, it's not a relational database system like those are. "Okay, so it's like SQL or Oracle or something." It's actually primarily a database system that happens to have built-in e-mail functionality."
"Only in the sense that it's an e-mail system. A typical conversation will go something like this: What Is Lotus Notes? What Is Lotus Notes? by Julian Robichauxįor as long as I've been working with Lotus Notes, people have asked me, "Just what the heck is Lotus Notes anyway?" That has always been a difficult question to answer, because there are no equivalent products to compare it to.
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