It used to be a popular email system in the corporate world in the late 2000s and early 2010s or so. It was made by IBM and you could think of it as the IBM version of Gmail or Outlook.
It had email of course, plus calendars and scheduling, chat, and... a whole lot of other things.
What was most stupid about it is that it was built on top of Eclipse. Yes, the Java IDE. They built an email client on top of a Java IDE. This still sounds nuts to me, but as far as I know there are a number of other programs that did this too, so honestly I'm probably just missing something. But it sounds pretty silly on the face of it.
It had a ton of other features like spreadsheets and "databases", forums, auth stuff, and custom applications. The interface was extremely cluttered. It took ages to launch.
Basically it tried to do everything. It was obviously an extremely ambitious project, and probably ahead of its time in some ways. But the world chose to go more in the direction of having different, more specialized tools for every job, and I think it's better that way.
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It used to be a popular email system in the corporate world in the late 2000s and early 2010s or so. It was made by IBM and you could think of it as the IBM version of Gmail or Outlook.
It had email of course, plus calendars and scheduling, chat, and... a whole lot of other things.
What was most stupid about it is that it was built on top of Eclipse. Yes, the Java IDE. They built an email client on top of a Java IDE. This still sounds nuts to me, but as far as I know there are a number of other programs that did this too, so honestly I'm probably just missing something. But it sounds pretty silly on the face of it.
It had a ton of other features like spreadsheets and "databases", forums, auth stuff, and custom applications. The interface was extremely cluttered. It took ages to launch.
Basically it tried to do everything. It was obviously an extremely ambitious project, and probably ahead of its time in some ways. But the world chose to go more in the direction of having different, more specialized tools for every job, and I think it's better that way.