Re: Office Vision

[Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/10/99 01:10:07 PM "Roger Pence"  wrote:

>Be careful pigeonholing Notes based on hearsay. Its merge capabilities
>aside, it is a very strong product and should be considered by every 
AS/400
>shop.

We're using Notes here right now, and I love it.  Most of us are using it 
only for email, but there are a handful of folks (me included for once!) 
that are using cooperative databases.  It is absolutely wonderful for 
collaborative stuff; you can easily build a shared database with 
compressible outlines (you know; go from a zillion lines of detail to a 
bullet item and back with one click) very, very easily.  For email, I'd 
rate it as fair (I had to change the default mail document to get those ">" 
characters and my sig at the bottom.)  Searching a database is very quick. 
Don't try to impose relational concepts on it though - it doesn't work well 
that way.  We have a pretty big 620 (1 gig RAM, 146 gig DASD) that we run 
Domino (the server bit) on, and it handles 150 users easily along with 
compiles and normal development work.

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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