25 let Lotus Notes
Dnes slaví Lotus Notes dvacáté páte narozeniny. Jeden z původních autorů, Ray Ozzie, k tomu vydal sérii 22 tweetů, ve kterých osvětluje historii jejich vzniku.
1/This Sunday, Dec 7, is the 25th anniv of Lotus Notes AND the 30th of my startup Iris! A brief story, in 22 tweets. pic.twitter.com/Q96GsgVLQd — Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
2/In July ’84 I pitched an mail/collab app to @mkapor. He liked the concept .. but its char mode UI not so much. pic.twitter.com/JlYutFrEmO
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
3/Used Mac; tuned up pitch. Closed deal & founded Iris on 12/7/84 w/ @lenkawell & @timhalvorsen. Coded like mad! pic.twitter.com/6bkJQn9aDO
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
4/@billgates convinced me to bet on pre-rel Windows. But wanted icon/desktop UX, so had to build it at app level. pic.twitter.com/olqByCEGAd
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
5/Spent ~30% dev calories fighting memory constraints! After 15 months, beta deployed at our close partner Lotus. pic.twitter.com/DkTanJoGSB
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
6/Achieved MVP, workgroup-scale: nosql DB, forms/docs/views, IDE, richtext, client/server, replication, mail, secure. pic.twitter.com/CgocN24KWP
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
7/Mail was ‘just an app’. We ate our own cooking, but Lotus largely VAX so we built VMS & MCI mail gateways. pic.twitter.com/VPSEsRsqfX
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
8/Form based mail. Link, disk, AND end-to-end msg encr; RSA/DES (@RonRivest developed RC4 to unblock our US export!) pic.twitter.com/cgBm18Qtyd
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
9/Directory was ‘just an app’. Address book had addrs, photos, pubkeys for people & servers, certs for orgs. pic.twitter.com/GvxKMDJLag
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
10/Threaded discussions were ‘just an app’. Supported either 2-level or full outline-style reply hierarchies. pic.twitter.com/XrLUuVYk2U
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
11/User-customized forms/views to suit apps’ needs. (BTW we had to impl our own overlapping win mgr on Win v1.) pic.twitter.com/852k6FAj97
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
12/User-created apps. Pure functional form/view language. Integrations, like this one w/Compuserve for News. pic.twitter.com/akaN6sCDCH
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
13/Looking at these old news stories is such a blast… pic.twitter.com/PrEWwdxGuw
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
14/We stress-tested by using our own apps for project mgmt. More and more complex views, forms, fields, functions. pic.twitter.com/Jm9wCZmQxx
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
15/Data was either local or server-based, accessed/replicated over LAN – or modem via X.PC modded for our env. pic.twitter.com/v3Hu6fn8zo
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
16/Win server, bizarrely with USER/GDI unloaded to recover memory. (We modded Win sources; MSFT accepted changes.) pic.twitter.com/nukstKTF50
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
17/Ugh; slog. Req’d appdev/mgmt features. Legal tussles. Win&OS2 cli&svrs. Nearly killed us. But SHIPPED on 12/7/89. pic.twitter.com/aonJT62Gtv
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
18/Struggled to get traction; shipped v2 ‘91 & stayed alive THANKS TO BELIEVERS eg @sheldonlaube @mcuban & many more pic.twitter.com/eYSeJ0uLbU
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
19/By ’93 w/ v3 we hit inflection! Value clear. LANs finally common. MSExchange appears & suddenly it's a MARKET! pic.twitter.com/dlmAKbFJPg
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
20/By ’97 v4.5, Lotus buys Iris & IBM buys Lotus. ~125M paid users @ ~$99-$249 ea.; ~$9 to ecosys per $1 we earned. pic.twitter.com/RiSJU1LeqP
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
21/From Notes to @talkoteam I've been so fortunate: such amazing teams; such amazing apps. http://t.co/Zcjy1Q8pYG pic.twitter.com/iSm2Br0cBO
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014
22/Mitch,Tim,Len,Iris,Lotus,IBM,Partners& you who've used our work, THANK YOU for the opp’y afforded us. Happy anniv! pic.twitter.com/cetVxy8ZB1
— Ray Ozzie (@rozzie) December 4, 2014