lundi, juillet 28, 2008

80 raisons de ne pas prendre lotus notes

Voici un site qui essaye de lister toutes les anomalies de fonctionnement de Lotus Notes.

Il y en a 80...

Comme quoi l'ergonomie a des progrès à faire... La raison est dans l'historique :
"Simply using the product every day helped us develop key functionality."

This explains why Lotus Notes is difficult, if not impossible, to use. Whenever a product is designed by programmers, you end up with a mess. Letting programmers design a product without input from real-world users is like letting a carpenter design a house–you end up with the software equivalent of a building with the toilet next to the kitchen sink—because plumbing is easier to install this way.

"...we're working hard to ensure that the next release of Notes/Domino continues in
the tradition of its predecessors, offering all the latest functionality, usability, and security our customers have come to expect and demand."

They may be working hard, but they are not working smart. Lotus Notes has little useful functionality because it is almost unusable.

1 commentaires:

Christian Fauré a dit…

T'es déchaîné !
J'ai pas besoin de 80 raisons de ne pas prendre Notes, une suffit :-)

De toute façons ceux qui achète notes ne sont pas ceux qui l'utilisent ; ils laissent çà à leurs assistant(e)s.