If all you have is a hammer ...

by Volker Weber

Joerg Michael did a good thing and set up a community blog for Notes and Domino. Now I read comments about he fact that it is not running on top of Domino.

I don't get it. How often does this community have to play catch up with the rest of the world and re-invent the wheel yet another time? There is plenty of community software out there — Joerg Michael chose Geeklog — it's free, and it can be hosted for a few bucks a month. And that includes all capabilities, user registration and so forth. Yes, one could license an IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server, re-write a lot of software and then come up "clean".

On the other hand the same people could come up with some interesting content.

Comments

As of April 21, 6 AM there were 9 comments on that entry. The only person that brought up ND6 was Alan Lepofsky (Senior Marketing Manager, Lotus) I don't think that constitutes "everybody is up in arms".

Tony S Lee, 2004-04-21

Tony, you are right. I read those comments in other places. Need to tone it down a bit.

Volker Weber, 2004-04-21

Hey, and Buga has an account. Identity theft anyone?

Volker Weber, 2004-04-21

No, apparently it's the "real" Buga, who can't quite give up his nom de plume even though it is known who he really is.
Note that -I- had no complaint about the underlying technology...

Ed Brill, 2004-04-21

I did. :-)

Volker Weber, 2004-04-21

Volker, already on the Buga Difino 'case' ;-). Also, Olaf Bjorklund can't be dead. He also signed up. So did Al Zollar. From the same IP address as Olaf. Within 10 minutes of Olaf. This crap is interesting ;-)

jmichael, 2004-04-21

Tony: small correction: Alan Lepofsky did not bring up the issue. He just agreed with an anonymous comment.

jmichael, 2004-04-21

Joerg, I know who Buga is but I am not saying.

Still working on Olaf. What I can say today without disclosing too much of my trail is that he lives somewhat more west than he is telling.

Volker Weber, 2004-04-21

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