Jake, You are correct that its not weakness..its a flaw. And lotus is very slow to corect their flaws.I admit that other products also have flaws but they are somehow quicker to correct them. In fact IBM is very fast to correct its flaws in websphere products but IBM/Lotus is too slow or may be they are in a stage where they just can't improve/correct few things. I think lotus product is build on wrong foundation.. initially its purpose was mail and messaging and document repository ... and then later they extended it web.. and on its journey they came out with R4.5,5,6 and then R6.5 ...and they supported backword compatabilty with notes versions while unable to keep pace with newer web standard ... and in this journey the product itself become real MESS so now they have introduced Lotus Workplace lines of product which relies on websphere and db2 technologies ....
Jake, You are correct that its not weakness..its a flaw. And lotus is very slow to corect their flaws.I admit that other products also have flaws but they are somehow quicker to correct them. In fact IBM is very fast to correct its flaws in websphere products but IBM/Lotus is too slow or may be they are in a stage where they just can't improve/correct few things. I think lotus product is build on wrong foundation.. initially its purpose was mail and messaging and document repository ... and then later they extended it web.. and on its journey they came out with R4.5,5,6 and then R6.5 ...and they supported backword compatabilty with notes versions while unable to keep pace with newer web standard ... and in this journey the product itself become real MESS so now they have introduced Lotus Workplace lines of product which relies on websphere and db2 technologies ....
I think now they are going on right direction ...