Pete Loshin wrote:
Timothy C. May wrote:
(I've been saying for a while that the Web serves that purpose better, and that Web browsers will likely edge out Notes. Apparently I was hardly prescient, as Netscape recently bought Collabra, which is pushing that point exactly.)
Notes uses replication to distribute data across networks; there are better ways to have people compute remotely in my opinion too (not sure WWW is THE answer, but it certainly is one of them).
In an interview today in a Stockholm paper with a technical spokes- person for Hewlett-Packard (about the HP internal net with 19 worldwide connections to the Internet - by the way, allegedly no one has ever succeeded in breaking their firewalls) it was stated that Netscape was heavily used for HP internal business. Apparantly there was a choice between Notes and the internal Web, the Web being favoured 470:1. Mats