I had a client once whose main application was 40 contract databases that opened to precisely that. Why? The initial developer built it that way, and no one had ever done a design review. People just kept adding features. They ended up with a poorly designed application that was 8 years old and in which half of the work HAD to be done in the client, and the other half HAD to be done in a web browser. With a little thought and work, they could have had an incredibly useful workflow application (their work consisted of SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT, ADD NOTES AFTER THE APPOINTMENT, FILE A CLAIM, AND RUN REPORTS ON THE WHOLE PROCESS.. something Domino is excellent at). However, their implementation SUCKED. Instead of fixing it, they just went on and on, and eventually spent about half a million dollars and migrated to 2 MS based solutions which don't do everything they could do with the single Domino solution and a mail client(they never even knew Notes/Domino did e-mail there, pop3 in some product that i cant't think of now was all they used).
I just had to add an example to this....
I had a client once whose main application was 40 contract databases that opened to precisely that. Why? The initial developer built it that way, and no one had ever done a design review. People just kept adding features. They ended up with a poorly designed application that was 8 years old and in which half of the work HAD to be done in the client, and the other half HAD to be done in a web browser. With a little thought and work, they could have had an incredibly useful workflow application (their work consisted of SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT, ADD NOTES AFTER THE APPOINTMENT, FILE A CLAIM, AND RUN REPORTS ON THE WHOLE PROCESS.. something Domino is excellent at). However, their implementation SUCKED. Instead of fixing it, they just went on and on, and eventually spent about half a million dollars and migrated to 2 MS based solutions which don't do everything they could do with the single Domino solution and a mail client(they never even knew Notes/Domino did e-mail there, pop3 in some product that i cant't think of now was all they used).