Sim´ Hampel´s IBM eye: Lotus Notes sucks?

So there's this site out there called "LotusNotes sucks".  I'venever linked to it before, I've read it, but it is so hard to get pastthe closed-minded nature of the site's author that the overall messageis lost. My colleage Sim'Hampel recently spent some time dissecting the site in detail, though,and saysSo let's be perfectly clear. I absolutely loveLotus Notes. Now that I've said that, I actually agree with a large part of what LotusNotes Hater has to say. I read through a large number of the bugs and issuesthat he mentions on his site - and largely I agree that they are bad UIdesign, or meaningless errors, or confusing behaviours, and so forth.Sim'evaluates some of what is discussed on the Notes sucks site.  Buthe brings the discussion up a level:Concentrating onthe end-user client niceties from a novice's point of view is not the wholestory, and this is why I still insist that, despite its shortcomings, LotusNotes is still the best choice out there as an enterprise messaging platformand distributed application development platform. Don't underestimate security,reliability, managability, scalability, flexibility, and all the otherbenefits that the platform provides the enterprise. Anybody who has experiencedthis knows that there really isn't anything available that can truely competewith Notes and Domino in this arena. Don't underestimate how much yourusers will complain and be bitter if your messaging platform becomes unreliableand stops them doing their jobs effectively - even with a pretty UI. Itdoesn't matter how nice the UI is if you still can't access your email!Sim'and I have discussed his article, and I think it's worthwhile reading. I don't entirely agree with it... I've watched usability videos ofOutlook users using Notes, Outlook users using Outlook, etc. ... each producthas its plusses and minuses.  I'm not going to turn this into a competitiveposting.  My point is simply, Notes may have its quirks, but so domany many software programs.  Because people "live" in e-mail,they are exposed to more of the e-mail application's quirks than most ofthe other software they use.  Notes 6.x and 7 have made significantimprovements, and from what I've seen out of the labs in the last few weeks,Notes "Hannover" is going to be a major "wow" at Lotusphere2006.