"single price discount retailer"
Is that Reg sarcasm or for real... I genuinely could believe either these days.
Microsoft knows how to score those big cloud rollouts with customers that are positively dripping in glamour - Poundland is migrating to Office 365. Europe's self-proclaimed biggest "single price discount retailer" chose heavily Microsoft-accredited channel partner Core Technology Systems (CTS) to deploy the cloudy wares. " …
They are lying when they say they're a discounter since everything in their store is built to a cost to enable them to make a profit.
They sell loaves of bread that are £1. But do compare their size with one for more in a supermarket, you'll find you're getting £1 worth of bread.
Whereas now there's no-one that'll touch it.
My experience of notes was via a big blue takeover.
For years I'd been happily using Thunderbird to connect to an MS Exchange server.
Then IBM came along with this clunky email client tacked on to some sort of DB admin tool, I just didn't take to it. The UI looked like it hadn't changed since the 16 bit days.
>Whereas now there's no-one that'll touch it.
>My experience of notes was via a big blue takeover.
Same. Notes was one of the main reasons i left pretty rapidly from a job I had enjoyed for over seven years. Well that, the bell curve nonsense, endless meetings with nothing being done, ridiculous work practices, and literally no incentive to do anything constructive at all. Ever.
That company needs a serious shake up. It could probably lose about 30-40% of its staff, and it may be more efficient.
One of the nice things (for the supplier) about bundling all your apps up into one umbrella brand is that you can announce that customer is has signed up for your latest all-singing all-dancing cloud offering when all they're actually going to use is office on the desktop (which they were already paying for) and a bit of webmail.
All conjecture of course!
It's a big pile of shit.
I remember when I worked in a certain large computer assembler in the North West, we used Notes and Smart Suite, Notes was appalling, especially at handling external email.
Parts of Smart Suite were OK though, as long as nobody sent you a Word document to amend...
"Will it be "Euroland"? Or "Pays de Euro"?"
Dunno what they'd call it, but the base price point in Europe for this type of offer is a fairly unsurprising €2. Which actually gives them more leeway, as that's a whole lot more than a quid (like about 70% more). If retailers go the other way then it is 84p land, and there's really not much range you can offer for that, particularly as the fixed costs of each transaction (eg checkout hardware, staff time) remain the same regardless of the price.
>>> If retailers go the other way then it is 84p land, and there's really not much range you can offer for that, <<<
Here in Portugal I can get a bottle of red that is drinkable for €0.99 in LIDL. That's better than anything you can get for 1 pound in Poundland I'm sure.
...was that most people thought of it as an email system, at which task it pretty much sucked.
We also used to use it to run bits of our intranet though - discussion databases, call trackers, that sort of thing. It was actually a pretty good system for that, back in the day.
I last used it about 10 years ago, at which point the UI was firmly entrenched in 1995. So maybe it's made it into the current century by now.