It mixed email with databases with insanely secure data replication and custom apps. Domino came later, adding server-level functions that increased in relevance as the internet was adopted by more and more people. It was either late or early and my phone rang. She told me that the Times used Notes it was still a Lotus product at that time , but they wanted to put some sort of HyperCard-like graphic front-end on it, had spoken to Apple, and Apple sent her to me.
Up to this point, I'd been doing a lot of work with Apple, heading up some Apple programs on HyperCard and education. I knew a lot about HyperCard, but little about Notes. I had read about Notes in the trade press, but that was about it. Although the Times' request sounded interesting, there wasn't really a way to marry HyperCard with Notes. I let her know, and we said goodbye. But then I started thinking.
This Notes thing might have some legs. I made some calls and found out that Notes, back then still at Release 2, was in entrenched use at organizations ranging from the Port of Gabon in Africa to the Royal Bank of Canada. This was before the web, and information was far harder to find than it was now.
As far as I could tell, no publications focused on it. And yet, as I continued to dig, I found that enterprise after enterprise, big companies and all, were depending on Notes to transform how they did business. They never had anything to help collaboration before.
Notes opened up the opportunity for teams, departments, and even inter-company projects to communicate. Also: IBM bets on a multi-cloud future. Notes was Salesforce before Salesforce. It was Dropbox before Dropbox. It was SharePoint before SharePoint. It was Atlassian before Atlassian. It was Zendesk before Zendesk. It was ServiceNow before ServiceNow. It was Workday before Workday. In some implementations, it was even Github before Github. It had web-like forms before there was a web, server apps before there were much in the way of servers, and shared distributed databases before such things had even been heard of by most IT folk.
Plus, it had an intrinsic, built-in, automatic security level that protected data enterprise wide with a deep level of granularity. I wrote Lotus Notes 3 Revealed! When the book took off, I had the idea that a newsletter or publication might be effective. This was in the days before the web, when companies spent hundreds of dollars a year on specialized newsletters. I reached out to The Cobb Group, a newsletter publisher I'd worked with in the past.
I took a couple of trips to Louisville, where the Cobb Group was located, and we discussed a deal. I also flew down to my first of 15 Lotuspheres in Orlando and met with key Lotus execs. Together, and with input and support from Lotus, we started a publication called Workspace for Lotus Notes.
Sheldon Laube, the CIO of Price Waterhouse, contracted for 10, copies of Lotus Notes the day before it launched, which contributed significantly to the product's acceptance and initial success. The CIA also ordered 10, units for its agents and staff. IBM bought Lotus in and kept the Notes product line alive. And the annual Lotusphere conference was conducted last week under the name Connect So, we decided to go back and talk to the original Lotus braintrust and see what they're up to these days.
Mitchell D. Kapor was 32 years old in April , when he founded Lotus He had previously developed two business programs for VisiCorp: VisiTrend a statistics program and VisiPlot a program that generated business charts. But Kapor wanted more he wanted a spreadsheet that would translate digits into graphs and calculate numbers at lightning speed, so he partnered with Jonathan Sachs to develop Lotus Today, Kapor has several projects in progress: www. He's a partner at Kapor Capital, "an investment fund based in Oakland, CA that invests in seed stage information technology companies that aspire to generate economic value and positive social impact," including; for example, education, health, and consumer finance.
He's a board member at Level Playing Field Institute, a company that promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. In addition, he's the founder and trustee of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, an organization that works to ensure fairness and equity, particularly for low-income communities of color. Asked about the demise of the Notes name, Kapor says, "I think 30 years was a really excellent run, and all things must pass.
Jonathan Sachs was the co-creator of Lotus He spent 10 months writing the program in Assembly for the IBM personal computer. He did such an excellent job, the program was almost completely bug-free. It was lightning fast and extremely efficient. Lotus introduced the onscreen, hierarchical, letter menus accessed by typing the slash key prior to executing the commands , for example: keystrokes slash key, letter F, letter S means File Save.
This user access design is still used in most Windows applications. Later versions of were written in C, partially to accommodate the programs' growth and complexity and partially to make it easier for integration with other programs.
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