Centrelink finally retires Smartsuite

For the last 15 odd years,Centrelink (the Australian Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency) has been using Lotus Smartsuite. 26,000 copies install across the organisation.

This month they change over to Microsoft Office 2007.

I think the fact that the product has been able to survive this long in the organisation show what an amazing job the software engineers and programmers did when they developed it. The product hasn't changed for ten years, yet the features it offers and the integration it has with Notes are still very advanced. To those developers, I salute you!

When Al Zollar put a sword through Smartsuite's development 10 years ago he canned an awesome product and handed the market to Microsoft for a large number of years.

In Janurary of this year Centrelink deployed Notes 8.02 with the Symphony productivity editors, so I guess Centrelink staff will soon have two World Class office productivity solutions to create documents and develop presentations. Lucky them..

RIP Smartsuite.

Since when did a 100% improvement become an average result, in anything?

There is only a month to go in our Defrag.NSF competition and some of the results people have sent in are astounding.

Results vary, let say over 100% is rather common. Who wouldn't want a 100% improvement in read times on their server ?

So what could Defrag.NSF do for your?

Go to our website, register for a trial, and send in your entry.

Good luck.

Nobody knows - why there is no Lotus 'air cover' in Australia

I have just returned from visiting sites in Victoria, Australia. This state has some of the largest Notes Domino customers in the country, and every single customer raised the same concern - lack of marketing and mind share was making life tough.

This has been raised time and time and time again. But still nothing. Yet nobody knows why.

8.5.1 is absolutely awesome. By any definition it must be the most advanced and modern ICE client in the market, Outlook is a toy in comparison, yet without the mindshare people will move away.

IBM we need your help now, air cover is pointless once the troops are dead.

How do you stop folders from being deleted in your archive?

This is a niggling bug that is driving one of our customers crazy. They archive mail to a server based archive and this mail is in folders (several levels deep). Works well. But when they delete an empty folder from their mail file, the folder in the archive is also deleted. How do you 'turn this feature off'. We have tried changing the replication settings on the archive to not replicate deletions but that does not work.

Anyone seen any "Lotus Knows" campaign activity in Aust or NZ ?

I've been looking but haven't spotted anything yet. If anyone has seen something I'd love to know.

Cheers

8.5.1 on Snow leopard has a couple of issues

In-line spell check doesn't work, and there are a number of icons/graphics missing. Otherwise a very nice release.

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A 224% improvement in read times - Can you beat it ?

When we put together the screen shots for our Defrag competition, we just grabbed one of the logs off one of our servers. It showed a 224% improvement in read time.

I assure you this is nothing special and I would be amazed if you don't do better. Our competition entries to date far exceed this - so what is stopping you?

You could win an iPod nano (actually you could win two) and you will absolutely have a faster server, and way faster backup times. It's a Win-Win situation.

For all the details, check out our web site at www.preemptive.com.au