en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:56:56 +0000 An RSS feed generated by IdeaJam(tm) for tag NotesBuddy http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf/LogoSquare.gif?OpenImageResource Fri, 07 May 2010 17:46:10 +0000 <b>Author:</b> David Hablewitz<br><b>Tags:</b> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=NotesBuddy">NotesBuddy</a> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=notes client">notes client</a> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=pop">pop</a> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=sametime notes integration presence">sametime notes integration presence</a> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=sametime">sametime</a> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=private mail">private mail</a> <a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ProductByCategory?openview&restricttocategory=mail">mail</a> <br><b>Idea:</b> <div>Once upon a time alphaWorks at IBM had created a proof-of-concept product called NotesBuddy.&nbsp; It allowed you to access your Notes mail without loading the Notes client.&nbsp; ***It could even READ YOUR MAIL AND SAMETIME CHATS TO YOU***</div> <div>It was only 6MB in size, worked with your personal POP mail too and it NEVER&nbsp;CRASHED.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>IBM threw it away.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>When I asked about it in the Meet the Developers session at Lotusphere, the developers were at a loss for words.&nbsp; It's like &quot;Who Killed the Electric Car.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Check this out: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/notesbuddy&nbsp; Where IBM&nbsp;says&quot;NotesBuddy has been the most-downloaded technology from alphaWorks every month for over five years, with several hundred thousand downloads in the past few years.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and this&nbsp; &quot;As graded by the user community, NotesBuddy was among the highest-ranked technologies on alphaWorks, with a score of 4.45 out of 5.0. Overall satisfaction was consistently high at 84%. NotesBuddy had the highest amount of feedback from the community, with 2824 evaluation surveys completed in one year alone.&quot;&nbsp; In my opinion, it is the Outlook Killer - small, simple, fast, reliable, nothin' but mail (and IM).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Several Hundred Thousand downloads. (300,000+)</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Throwing it away could be the second biggest product blunder of IBM ever (Declining to own DOS was obviously the biggest)</div> <div>Every Lotus professional should be demanding this software be reborn.&nbsp;</div><br> http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf/0/11B4A2FA937AB8168625771C005C1E1C?OpenDocument