Monat: Dezember 2004

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“They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.” gefunden bei Spreeblick

(One of my favourite Lotus Commercials from 1998, 32 MB)

Eine schöne Würdigung von vowe auf heise online. Update: Und noch ein wenig Geschichte von Notes auf lotus.com

Ray Ozzies birthday story at CNET News.com: Indeed, for many of us, the fundamental nature of work itself is changing–enabled by cheap, ubiquitous networking, communications, coordination and information-sharing technologies. (…) The virtual office will shape our concept of the workplace. The new concept: a world of pervasive knowledge work, riding on the foundations of fiber…

This is a great story about the Lotus Notes release 1.0 from December 1989. Love at first sight. Notes is ideal for unstructured data that nonetheless can be categorized in a multitude of ways, that can be displayed at different levels of detail, but that can’t be averaged, summarized or consolidated. This approach seemed natural…

Network World Fusion celebrates the 15th Birthday of Lotus Notes on December 7th. Iris Associates, the software development company from whence Notes emerged – on the Lotus dime – was founded five years earlier to the day. For me it is the 10th birthday getting in touch with this technology. As we started Kluge &…

„Es gibt eine Inflation der Nikolausität“ Gerhard Polt in der Süddeutschen.

Gestern in der Schaubühne „Die Kopien“ von Caryl Churchil. Ich teile mit jedem Menschen hier 99% der Gene. Wir haben zu über 98 % dieselben Gene wie ein Schimpanse und zu 30 % dieselben Gene wie ein Salatkopf. Das gibt mir doch das Gefühl, irgendwie dazu zu gehören. Hat da irgendwer Probleme mit dem Klonen?…

Sybase – perhaps. And then we sell the PC stuff. Seems like IBM again redefines its business model. IBM has reportedly put its PC business up for sale, 23 years after launching the first computer to carry that name. Well, if this is true, the IBM Thinkpad era on my desk comes to an end.