>>>>>Craig;
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>>>>>I see you also have “a true appreciation for Lotus Notes”. Our corporate standard is Lotus Notes. A shell inside of a shell. Sick!
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>>>>Yup, that's the problem here...corporate mandates this. IMO, Lotus Notes will just get worse in the future as IBM has announced that it and the Domino server will be rewritten in Java.
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>>>Arrrrggghhhhh!!! < Runs screaming in circles >
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>>>And here I didn't think that they could've made it worse...
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>>George;
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>>Just give IBM half a chance and they will make it much worse! :)
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>Oh, I know. Still I didn't think that they'd try something even Sun won't!
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>>I understand Big Blue has a great replacement for Lotus Notes. The only problem is you have to purchase an IBM Main Frame, and a COBOL programmer. It takes 4 1/2 years for requests to be completed.
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>We've got the mainframe, but I refuse to touch CRUDBALL (as Dr. "Crazy" Dave Morgan would've referred to COBOL as). My COBOL instructor, I think, was the one who said that the language was invented with the intent of being able to hire winos off the street to be programmers.
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>BTW, we recently finished the migration (with "Big Blue" assistance) from an old Honeywell Bull to an IBM. Took over four years.< bg >

Too many time periods related to IBM seem to have a magic number with a "4" in it. :)