Lotus Notes
product on 7 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 23 times in 10 episodes since 2016
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Donzé: How AODocs won its first SaaS deal by trading free services
“We sold them a three years license agreement with the money they had set aside for the service. And we said, okay, look, don't worry. This product is kind of beta, but we're going to make it work. And we take your money instead of taking it for doing the servi…”
Rosenthal: Ray Ozzie built Lotus Notes independently with Lotus as publisher
“Ray, of course, being the author of Lotus Notes, Ray is a legendary developer, and he has great relationships within Microsoft, because Ray built Lotus Notes not at Lotus, but at his own software studio startup, and Lotus was just his publisher.”
Lotus Notes pursued a dead-end path trying to be an operating system
“Lotus would really go down a dead-end evolutionary path with notes, you know, later in its life, in its final chapter, where the application was going to be the operating system.”
Kevins: Lotus Notes was an early, pre-internet predecessor to Slack's platform vision
“Lotus Notes was a vision of Slack, or a different version of that. It was a vision, the vision of Lotus Notes, and I'm not going to get this exactly right, but basically the vision of Lotus Notes was that it was a programmable environment. So it's this applica…”