“IBM Software will soon offer a better Macintosh client for Notes and is working on delivering Mac fidelity for that collaboration client,” Barbara Darrow reports for CRN.
Darrow reports, “The current beta for the Notes client will be on par featurewise with the Notes Windows client, said Mike Rhodin, general manager of IBM’s Workplace, Portal and Collaboration group, aka the IBM/Lotus group. ‘We have millions of Notes seats on the Mac now, and some very large customers are active in the beta and are very vocal about that,’ Rhodin said in an interview with CRN. ‘The Mac is a resurgent platform.'”
“‘When you see [the new Notes client], we’ve integrated the Macintosh more cleanly. All the dialogue boxes are Mac dialogue boxes; all the scroll bars are Mac scroll bars,’ he added,” Darrow reports. “The next Notes 7.02 maintenance release, due out soon, will add iNotes support for Mac computers, Rhodin said. iNotes is a lightweight Web client.”
Darrow reports, “At its annual Lotusphere show last year, IBM Software announced support for the Mac OS X platform, and it continues to add perks for Mac users.”
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Notes is one of the worst programs I’ve ever used. It’s slow, unintuitive, clunky, with horrible search options. Why the hell would I want it on my Mac unless I was forced to by my employer
Mac = back, baby yeahhh!
Oh the irony! IBM of all people says ‘Apple Mac is a resurgent platform’. Maybe they should have put some more money into those PPC processors when they had the chance.
IBM to offer better Mac support, says ‘Apple Mac is a resurgent platform’
yeah, no thanks to THEM.
good news for me.. I am forced by my company to use Notes… and I can pretty much echo django’s sentiments. I mean ffs, Notes on Mac doesn’t even support the scroll wheel!
Fair. Weather. Friends.
IBM to make new hybrid Power6-x86-64 chips. Goodbye, IntelAMD.
“All the dialogue boxes are Mac dialogue boxes; all the scroll bars are Mac scroll bars.”
What an achievement!
Glad to hear they’re going to fix Notes. I use Notes v6.5.5 at work, and it is one of the worst Mac apps I’ve ever had. This program screams Windows-Ported-Software at the top of it’s lungs. And it’s very slow. The icons are ugly, the text is not anti-alaised and it has a very un-mac like interface. They can’t fix this pig soon enough!
And, no – I don’t have a choice to switch to something better. I could set up another mail app myself, but IT won’t allow it (those bitches!).
Notes is even worst than office. huhhh
>>> Notes is one of the worst programs I’ve ever used. It’s slow, unintuitive, clunky, with horrible search options. Why the hell would I want it on my Mac unless I was forced to by my employer
I am forced by my employer and it is one of the worst programs I’ve ever used – Mac or PC. Frankly, I have little faith in IBM getting this right for the Mac, as they seem to specialize in bloated, unusable software designed for non-humans with little thought toward actual everyday users in general. Granted, Windoze users are used to utter crapola, but Notes sets the bar particularly low.
IBM sucks.
IBM, eh?
I didn’t think that we had seen the last of them. I’ve always suspected that this Universal Binary stuff would end up being much more encompassing than simply addressing the needs of legacy OS users. I still suspect it, too.
Notes is the biggest POS. I had to endure it in my last job. It looks like it was design by monkeys with 0 attention to usability.
ALL that matters is that this is yet another endorsement for Mac that means more people will be seriously looking at switching.
If IBM says there is interest in Notes for Mac, it means large businesses are switching..
The Early Majority may be starting.
VISTA may be Dead on Arrival, just like Zune.
Oh happy days!
My company uses Notes…it is without a doubt the worst program ever.
Sure Notes is a mess. It gives the Swiss-Army-Knife-concept a bad name. However, large corporations including many international banks, accounting firms and financial services companies have standardized on Lotus Notes for email for security reasons. Microsoft doesn’t cut it for email security for reasons that even corporate IT folks seem to understand. One of the most often heard reasons for not adding Apple to the approved vendor list has been the lack of Lotus Notes support. Not exactly true, because I had Lotus Notes on my desktop Mac at work. In a company with over 60,000 desktop and laptop computers I believe that I had the only Mac. Being the CIO, I got to indulge my desire in contravention of the established anti-Apple policy.
Perhaps this news will give Apple some traction in larger corporation.
I’ll believe IBM supports Macs when I see a Mac version of WebSphere. If they can do it for Solaris, where they don’t have their own version of the JVM, they can do it for Macs.
OK………… what say we collect all these negative comments, forward them to IBM, and look forward to them increasing Mac support as a result.
support.
Grow up, people. When someone like IBM takes a step toward doing the right thing, how does it harm you to say so? It might result in more steps. Or is it just that you have no other emotional outlets than this forum?
Things like this are good signs for the mac.
Developers, developers, developers, …
– Mark
The company I work for uses Notes for email, CRM and various other database-ish functions. Were it not for the existing Mac client, I would have no prayer of using a Mac in this 99% Windoze environment.
I’ve also been using Notes since 1998, and Mail before that – so like the clueless Windoze users, I don’t know what else there is and am content because of my ignorance.
I’m glad that IBM is continuing, even increasing, development of its products for the Mac. It does fly in the face of the contention that IT pro since the days of “big iron” have made that Macs are “toys”. (I personally heard that comment from an IT guru – a DEC VAX junkie – back in 1984 when I borrowed an original Macintosh from Computerland to show to our engineering manager as a possible first computer for the department). Anything that gives the Mac more credibility as a business solution is a good thing, having IBM recognize the platform as “resurgent” is good ammunition.
I’m afraid that IBM has been infested with hoards of unchaste demons. Their lackluster attitude, and failure to meet a resurging Apple Computer with a CPU that met their demands is proof. I don’t even want to talk about Notes, its not worth my time.
Oh how I wanted a G6. I feel as though my precious Apple has been mildly funktified with these “great” new Intel chips. Sure, they work good…but there was nothing quite like the “g” badge. Pretty soon, G5’s will be a relic of the past, and you will all be forced into the:
“Intel Whorification of Computerization”
Does nobody see the evolving trend? First Intel, and now you can run Windows on your Mac…can’t you see what is next? Open your eyes little one…
Peace be with you all…except Intel.
“IBM to offer better Mac support, says ‘Apple Mac is a resurgent platform’”
I thought it said “insurgent platform.” Wasn’t IBM’s original motto “Think!”?
?|”Notes is one of the worst programs I’ve ever used. It’s slow, unintuitive, clunky, with horrible search options. Why the hell would I want it on my Mac unless I was forced to by my employer”
Yes that is my situation as well, although I use iNotes with FireFox and it works great. Better than the Notes client.
I hear great things from IT types about the whole Lotus package from a development standpoint, but man is Notes a FPOS client. Easily the WORST products I have ever used, and it is no better on Windows. Everyone here hates it, but it is inflicted on us by our IT Nazi’s then they refuse to open up IMAP access. If they really want to help out Mac users, allow Mail.app to connect to it, just as Exchange does.
Cool! Now all they have to do is bring back Improv.
My thoughts exactly, Peter. Improv, the Excel killer!