RE: IBM selling Notes/Domino (and other software) to HCL

["Musselman, Paul" <pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was relatively proficient with the O/V text editor.  For an editor that worked on a text-only screen, it was amazing that you could create documents to make a laser printer -s-i-n-g-!  Well, hummmm very well.  The fact that you had to print and re-print to see what you'd done was a 'minor' inconvenience!

I do appreciate the advantages of a GUI-editor!

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 1:39 PM
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Subject: RE: IBM selling Notes/Domino (and other software) to HCL

One of the coolest apps I ever worked on was a routine to allow a homebuilder's project managers to walk through the subdivision with a subcontractor, and for each house, click radio buttons that defined the percentage of completion for that subcontractor. 

When the project manager later replicated his laptop, the completion data flowed back to the iSeries and into the Accounts Payable system, and generated an open payable transaction for that sub. Since homebuilders sub almost everything out, the app took a huge load off the shoulders of the payables staff.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Richard Schoen via MIDRANGE-L
Sent: Friday, December 7, 2018 12:09 PM
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Cc: Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IBM selling Notes/Domino (and other software) to HCL

In the form of the Open Source Word Processer included with Notes !!

I miss the days of Notes/Domino programming. 

I lost the Notes/Domino battle when my employees revolted in 2007 😊

Everybody loves Outlook. 

Do not resurrect OfficeVision.............................. 😊

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com 

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message: 6
date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 13:14:36 -0400
from: Calvin Buckley <calvin@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: IBM selling Notes/Domino (and other software) to HCL

It's all part of the glorious return of OfficeVision/400, of course.


On 2018-12-07 1:02 p.m., Charles Wilt wrote:
> https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/ibm-selling-lotus-notes-domino-busin
> ess-to-hcl-for-1-8b/
>
> Rob...I suspect you'll be interested...
>
> Charles